Startup's eBay app auction ends, receives 0 bids

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mobile-group-video-chat-technology-/271369239246?

by jlas • 13 years ago

11 7 13 years ago

ebay.com

jlas2• 13 years ago

From 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7032153

sarreph• 13 years ago

But... Selling your business on eBay is a scary-looking exit strategy for any potential buyer.

tvxedo• 13 years ago

Anyone else think that price may have been a tad high?

rtpg• 13 years ago

What could actually be a neat expirement would be going the other way: building some software, and then selling it off (like this) but at a really low bid (like, starting off at $5). You could probably use it to slightly guage how much your code+support might be worth. Would at least make an interesting serie of blog posts.

mattmiller• 13 years ago

Why wouldn't they sell the app and userbase as well?

jlas2• 13 years ago

One thing I asked about in the original HN thread that went unanswered was the test code. Do they have any? Unit, integration, performance, etc. and what does the coverage look like?

$50k seems unjustifiable without tests and benchmarks.

pavel_lishin• 13 years ago

They're selling 9k lines of code, with only a week's worth of support, plus another week if you pay more for it. That's probably interesting, but what are the odds of it being $50k worth of interesting?

Startup's eBay app auction ends, receives 0 bids

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