Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154

by gillis • 12 years ago

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A thread similar to this was posted ~1 year ago by illdave. I think it's time for an updated 2014 version.

If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.

cryptoz• 12 years ago

http://doodlec.am/

I wish I had time to build it, but I don't. It's a simple idea, where we had moderately good execution and big ideas for the future. Future plans were to expand to Doodle Packs, with themed artwork (also for sale, perhaps).

The image detection code (doodle placement) was pretty hacky but functional. The app has about 10,000 downloads, maybe 1,000 active (close to 0 marketing). I envisioned updating it with new doodles, better image code, sharing options, etc, and re-launching in the next couple months...but realistically that probably won't happen. Maybe you could make it happen? :)

Dwolb3• 12 years ago

I'm too busy for something like this too, but I want to work on this pretty bad because, well, embarrassingly I'm a Catwang user.

I think the 'insert randomly' is a nice feature, but if I were to work on this, I'd focus more on letting users insert their own content. Catwang sells 'Doodle Packs' but I think they're missing a couple of things which your image detection is approaching: the ability to make your own stickers (out of friends, perhaps) and the ability to draw on the image (like Snapchat).

Suppafly• 12 years ago

It'd be neat if it inserted real pictures, not just doodles.

arfliw2• 12 years ago

http://warsocial.com

HTML5 game similar to risk. Rails/Angular/Redis/Heroku

Took over two years to build. Now it just needs a bunch of players. Monetization isn't built in yet but it's ready for it.

darrennix3• 12 years ago

This is just KDice, is it not?

arfliw2• 12 years ago

Inspired by KDice, yes. There are some key differences in game play, rules and mechanics, that were meant to improve upon KDice's shortcomings.

davecap12• 12 years ago

I have a site called TwitterAudit (twitteraudit.com) that started as a side project. We just started making a bit of money on it from paid re-audits. The site gets about 40k uniques/month. There are about 150k registered users and about 250k audits.

marban6• 12 years ago

You'll probably have to spend your first revenues on getting a non C&D-prone domain name.

davecap12• 12 years ago

Good call, thanks.

deanclatworthy4• 12 years ago

http://unfriend.io - Facebook application with over 8000 monthly users, ~1000 who use it every day.

pa5tabear• 12 years ago

How does this work? I just tried clicking through and it returned a list of friends who added me.

If there was no list of people who deleted me, does that mean it hasn't happened? Was it working properly?

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

^ ditto

Flowsion• 12 years ago

I think you have to have it enabled and when someone disables or unfriends you on Facebook, you will be notified.

jtokoph• 12 years ago

I'm going to assume that it saves a record of your friendships when you first login. Then every time you come back to the site it looks at your current friend list and tells you the names of the people that dropped off.

pgopalan• 12 years ago

http://kanban2go.com iOS app built on Ruby Motion is almost ready.

gaboc• 12 years ago

I tried to reach you with your email address mentioned on the website but the delivery have failed. Do you have a vision how much do you expect to get for this?

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

http://brightswipe.com (functional prototype minus uploading at http://dev.brightswipe.com)

It's a torrent uploader & indexer. It's written in Ruby with Sinatra and fairly extensible.

I wrote it a couple years back, but got shut down by my parents and school administrators. Pity.

Contact: purchase@bernsteinbear.com

shazow9• 12 years ago

I have a bunch of projects I built up which I consider "done" as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time they're basically free to run (AppEngine in the free tier) so I'm always reluctant to sell... I do wish there were people who wanted to take one of these and build them out to the "next level".

- http://www.tweepsect.com/ - Gets 300,000~600,000 pageviews per month (about 1/6 uniques), makes a couple hundred bucks from ads each month. Been around for almost 5 years.

- http://colorblendy.com/ - There's also a Chrome app (20k weekly users), website gets about 4,000~8,000 visits/month. I had some ideas for making a "Pro" edition with things like importing/exporting colors from/to CSS stylesheets. Probably need to do some more market research before diving into this.

- http://wedomainsearch.com/ - Few hundred visits per month, brand new (built several months ago). Fairly cool idea that is really valuable for founders/hobbyists, I use it all the time. Needs some love for promotion and monetization, though.

I love working on these little stand-alone projects (a few more here: http://shazow.net/, also my email address if you want to reach out), sometimes I wish I could just whip them out and sell them as a living but the code alone is never as valuable without putting in effort into growing the audience.

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

How much are you selling tweepsect for?

shazow9• 12 years ago

It's free to run, requires 0% maintenance or effort, and brings in money every month. Send me an email with a tempting offer and we'll talk. :)

basicallydan2• 12 years ago

I'm not interested in buying any of them I'm afraid, but I just wanted to say that your website (shazow.net) and your projects are all very impressive. You have a readable style of writing and a good eye for simplicity.

Thanks for putting it out there :)

shazow9• 12 years ago

Thank you for the kind words!

I have a few more projects in the pipeline that I've been reluctant to publicize, but now I'm suddenly feeling more motivated, ha. :)

avoid3d• 12 years ago

In the graphic on the home page:

It erks me that different words 'stalkers' and 'stalking' are used to refer to the two parts of the graph, when there is no distinction between them.

Confused me that's all :)

usaphp2• 12 years ago

http://www.tweepsect.com/ - is blocked in Russia

xentronium• 12 years ago

These idiots banned a/the cloudflare endpoint.

[1] http://antizapret.info/index.php --- see for yourself (108.162.196.104)

cstrat• 12 years ago

My work bans it too "Your request was categorized by Blue Coat Web Filter as 'Scam/Questionable/Illegal'."

kinj28• 12 years ago

i got an alert saying that too many tweeter queries can block you. Seems like a dangerous thing. what say?

mtnboy• 12 years ago

Love the projects. Keep it up :)

thomasfromcdnjs• 12 years ago

Hey Andrey, I was a paid member of SocialGrapple before it got acquired by Google, what has happened to it now?

shazow9• 12 years ago

Hi Thomas! My sincere apologies for letting you down with SocialGrapple. :(

Unfortunately not much happened with it. I joined Google to work on an in-house social analytics product, but most of it never launched. I've since left Google so I don't know what's going on in that department anymore.

I'm working on https://briefmetrics.com/ now, which is vaguely in the same space as SocialGrapple, sans the social for now. :) I'm considering introducing some social metrics into the email reports someday. I'm also working on splitting up the pieces of the project so that most of it can be open sourced and thereby guaranteeing some kind of continuity for loyal customers.

premjg• 12 years ago

Have you tried selling these on http://flippa.com

shazow9• 12 years ago

Nope. I feel Flippa is better for high-value domains and highly-ranked content sites. I don't feel that web applications get valued appropriately.

Freeboots2• 12 years ago

Out of interest, how is briefmetrics doing? Its a good concept, and nice clean report structure

shazow9• 12 years ago

Thanks!

The fundamental product I wanted to build is done, so it basically runs itself while I do business development and sales. Eventually I'll need to dive back into the code to add more features I have on the roadmap, but I work best when I "switch modes" for spans of several weeks at a time so it may be a while. :)

The current revenue is about $250/mo. I've been trying to focus more on agencies with many clients and offering them custom-branded whitelabel emails reports for their customers. Making some progress on that end.

At the same time, as you can tell, I kind of have a habit of doing other random projects on the side, so things take longer than they should. :)

chrisjames• 12 years ago

You're the developer I want to be someday.

I realize that may sound weird. I'm ok with it.

shazow9• 12 years ago

Ha, thanks Chris! I hope you become the developer you think I am someday, and more. :)

shobhitverma• 12 years ago

Almost a Haiku, it is.

brianobush• 12 years ago

A filtering product: http://contexion.com/

Real-time engine in C, python-based tools. Language and encoding identification and classification technology. Primary market is filtering for kids, currently the only category is pornography. Manual support for violence.

haon99• 12 years ago

StudyShuffle - http://www.StudyShuffle.com/

Contact: noah[at]noahlitvin[dot]com

refrigerator2• 12 years ago

http://www.curate.im - content curation and discovery platform. It lets users create, share, and discover lists of links on whatever topic they want, to help people organise useful stuff and save people from having to trawl through search engine results for good links about stuff. Log in with the username 'test' and password 'test' to see the user dashboard etc :)

gillis5• 12 years ago

I really like this idea. What are your thoughts on monetization of this and getting more users on board?

refrigerator2• 12 years ago

Thanks! I built it last summer and posted it on a couple of forums but it's basically dead. It would be awesome if more people would use it though, in terms of monetisation I think some sort of 'Sponsored Curations' thing could work quite well, where companies can create their own lists and have them appear in users' feeds.

willwilliams• 12 years ago

Android app, adult orientated. 1millions downloads, 100k active users

marban6• 12 years ago

Paid or free/ads?

PEntremont• 12 years ago

How is it named ?

ashbrahma3• 12 years ago

Could you post your contact info?

kiberstranier• 12 years ago

Can you contact me please? kiberstranier%gmail

quiqueqs2• 12 years ago

I'm selling RearView (www.rearviewapp.com), and android app which is similar to the Frontback app. It's been online for about 5 months and there are 11.000 registered users and 2800 uploaded photos. I haven't added any sort of monetization strategy (no free/premium version and also no ads). The only cost that it has is a fixed $20 per month of hosting on DigitalOcean.

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

This is interesting.

quiqueqs2• 12 years ago

You can reach me at hboregio [at] gmail

ShaneCurran2• 12 years ago

https://www.chemical.io/ - Lab management made easy

Chemical.io is a free cloud based lab management system that lets you catalogue chemicals using a smartphone and automatically re-order chemicals when running low.

It's an excellent domain and the software is very polished so it would be a great investment for prospective buyers.

I'm also open to offers on http://www.libramatic.com/. It's a cloud based library cataloging solution that lets you catalog books by scanning the ISBN using a smartphone's camera. It's currently in use in over 1,000 libraries and has a number of paying customers on monthly and yearly subscriptions.

Feel free to hit me up at s@chemical.io

kawsper• 12 years ago

Just FYI chemical.io seems to be vulnerable to Heartbleed. https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#www.chemical.io

FiloSottile• 12 years ago

Thank you for making me realize a bug in my cache implementation (test author) </OT>

ShaneCurran_2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it

PhrosTT• 12 years ago

Would mind telling me how you're decoding barcodes from the images? This is a problem I'm currently working on using js/canvas. Did you use ZXing?

ShaneCurran2• 12 years ago

Yep, Libramatic uses ZXing

jtwarren2• 12 years ago

http://learnto.com - A fun side project I worked on that allows people to learn and teach (in person) with those in their community.

Target market was medium/large organizations -- think large incubators, co-working spaces, companies. These separate organizations would have their own landing pages, learning cultures, etc.

capex• 12 years ago

This seems interesting, I'd like to know the details. What's your email?

jtwarren2• 12 years ago

jtwarren@mit.edu

EarthLaunch• 12 years ago

http://quickseat.me/

Simple battle-tested assigned chart app for companies or venues to sell tickets to venues. At least $1m in sales has gone through it. I'll sell the code or the service for cheap, I don't have time to market it so it's just sitting there.

The coolest feature is that seat updates are "live" (using polling) to everyone, so none of that "you have 15 minutes to complete your order" crap you normally get when buying tickets. It's now a cross-platform HTML5/JS frontend, originally I made it in Flash.

seanccox• 12 years ago

What's the best way to get in touch? I'd like to hear more about the project. My email is in my profile.

peacemaker2• 12 years ago

I'm looking into selling http://eventbookingpro.com. Had a bunch of sales but zero advertising. Needs someone who understands marketing to make some good money with this.

asm2• 12 years ago

http://snapnote.io/

qsun• 12 years ago

it looks pretty good. Why do you want to sell it?

asm2• 12 years ago

It was written to scratch a personal itch; never as a business. I'd be happy to see someone else pick it up and do something with it.

smallegan2• 12 years ago

Can you e-mail me with details? My address is in my profile. Thanks!

balloob2• 12 years ago

http://go-inside.appspot.com/

Tool that allows users to create their own tours using Android Photospheres and embed them on their website/view online.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zk_VuX2b0 for a demo of the interface

Our current commitments prevent us from finishing it.

ShaneCurran_2• 12 years ago

Hey, what's your email address?

balloob2• 12 years ago

paulus [at] paulusschoutsen nl

ronreiter3• 12 years ago

http://www.learnpython.org + the rest of my tutorials

I generate quite a lot of revenue for them from ads (about 500,000 hits per month), but they have so much potential and I don't have time to invest.

a3voices• 12 years ago

Why don't you hire someone to do it if you don't have the time? Just curious.

ronreiter3• 12 years ago

Because I feel like it doesn't make sense.

Are you up for it?

peacemaker2• 12 years ago

This is interesting, do you have a ballpark figure you'd accept? Feel free to email me, contact is in profile.

notsosmart2• 12 years ago

I might be interested. Can you please email me basic revenue and traffic data?

ronreiter3• 12 years ago

sure

redslazer• 12 years ago

Could you please email me basic revenue and traffic stats. My email address is in my profile.

hahla2• 12 years ago

Can you send me 12mo traffic and revenue information. Email is in the profile. Thanks

chaseideas4• 12 years ago

Hey Ron, interested in the site details and seeing if we can work out a deal. Please email me traffic stats and revenue info

nigekelly• 12 years ago

Hi - looks interesting. Can you forward revenue last 12 months and what you think it's worth

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

Oh man I love your tutorials! They're such an excellent resource. I would love to host them. Can you forward the revenue from the last 12 months?

purchase at bernsteinbear dot com

joeag2• 12 years ago

I'd love to get information also - my email is in my profile. Thank you!

duked• 12 years ago

I would be extremely happy to take over, would you please email me some stats of the website/revenue so we can discuss. contact at iphonophile.fr thanks

QuasiAlon2• 12 years ago

I recently started learning python and of course got to your site. Wanted to say thanks for putting it up. I didn't actually end up using it much so far.. my impression was that there are still kinks and usability issues, but definitely lots (!) of potential. You should be proud.

pepijndevos• 12 years ago

http://teamrelaychat.nl/ A IRC-based team chat service. Discontinued.

http://teamrelaychat.nl/bouncer/ just the bouncer part of it. Has a hand full of users. Mainly exists because I use it.

Never done any serious marketing for either.

PhilipA• 12 years ago

Would like to sell www.recovermywebsite.com, free service which recovers pages from Yahoo/Bings cache. 1 of May I am starting a startup, and won't have time to continue the service. It should be possible to monetize it. It is built on Asp.net MVC with an NHibernate backend.

matthall28• 12 years ago

http://adcraft.io/ In-game advertising for Minecraft servers

http://snaproulette.io/ Chat Roulette for SnapChat

gillis5• 12 years ago

I'm interested in AdCraft. Reply with your info or find my email on my profile.

mountaineer2• 12 years ago

http://truerobin.com

Private Group Classifieds. Facebook groups are increasingly being used for private craigslists, but they are not well-suited to buying/selling. There is no search, no alerts, and are very time consuming to manage.

Built with Rails 4, Postgres, Resque. Got it to a functioning point and then had to switch gears to other clients/projects/work. The plan was to charge individuals for the tools (search, alerts, posting limits) rather than charge for a group, since they would just run to FB then.

marban6• 12 years ago

Tried this with a VC round a year ago. Good luck, you'll need it ;)

mountaineer2• 12 years ago

Sorry to hear it shut down, it had been one of the validating points, that there is something to be done with this space. Less competition I suppose?

nowlnowl• 12 years ago

Add a demo login so you can fast get an overview of the site!

darrennix3• 12 years ago

http://RVmenu.com is hotels.com for RV rentals. High conversion rate but very little traffic. Needs lots of SEO love.

Nicholas_C2• 12 years ago

Why are you trying to sell?

darrennix3• 12 years ago

I'm bored. The technical side is done and now it needs a sales guy to make it successful.

notsosmart2• 12 years ago

Darren contact me. I might be able to help sales / seo wise.

clamprecht• 12 years ago

Related, maybe an area to expand into: I've always thought an "AirBnb for RVs" made sense. How many people buy RVs, use them for a while, then let them sit for 20 years while they devalue? Just a thought.

Nicholas_C2• 12 years ago

Sounds like the problem people have with boats as well.

brc• 12 years ago

Or RV Swaps, like house swaps. For either other side of the country or another country altogether. I've had that idea for a long time hoping someone would do it.

Insurance and others is a minor sticking point I think, but should be workable. On the plus side, unlike house swaps, they don't have to be simultaneous.

stevesw013• 12 years ago

How many uniques per day do you have and what revenue do you get monthly?

Benpa• 12 years ago

Hi Darren, I would be interested in having more details as I am already in this business. Please contact me. Thanks

Jsarokin• 12 years ago

http://redditsimple.com - save, search & share your reddit upvotes & saved content.

korabhhh2• 12 years ago

mapstylr.com MapStylr is a free online tool that helps you create, store and publish unique google map styles.

fiatjaf4• 12 years ago

Seems pretty awesome. Have you got revenue? How did you market it?

ateevchopra• 12 years ago

Dude. You are storing passwords in plain text! and sending it via email. Not cool

korabhhh2• 12 years ago

Nope, We are using wp_hash password that is generated by Wordpress.

tobinharris5• 12 years ago

http://yuml.me

UML diagrams via a URL. 1,000,000 page views per year. We sell 2-3 enterprise licenses per year. Customers include Microsoft, Intel, Bose, Lockheed Martin and Yahoo.

Struggling to find the time & energy to turn this hobby into a stronger business.

bowmanb• 12 years ago

Not interested in buying, just wanted to show you a little love. I've used yuml.me and it's great.

tobinharris5• 12 years ago

Thanks man :)

NicoJuicy2• 12 years ago

Used this also, you've got my love!

tobinharris5• 12 years ago

BHSPitMonkey• 12 years ago

Do Microsoft and Yahoo know you're for sale?

tobinharris5• 12 years ago

I doubt it, but it would probably be good for them if it meant more regular updates.

ejb994• 12 years ago

Have you set a price? Not sure how to monetize it but I like your traffic stats.

tobinharris5• 12 years ago

Not yet.

I also have some plans for monetizing further, but they need time or $$$.

Feel free to ping me tobin%tobinharris^com

alexrbarlow• 12 years ago

https://musrr.com - A profile for bands or artists, fairly polished, needs some more features etc but I don't feel like i have the time to really look after it like it should be!

fiatjaf4• 12 years ago

Do you have lots of users? How did you market it?

derwiki2• 12 years ago

https://www.dailysitesnap.com/public

This project takes screenshots of various URLs once a day. It's been a fun way to watch my side project grow up, and a number of other people receive daily emails. It could be an interesting business, but not really one I'd like to pursue.

Email "adam at cameralends" if you're interested in it.

rtcoms• 12 years ago

Which library/plugin you are using to take screenshot of urls ?

I am working on a similar app based on Ruby on Rails and these days searching for a proper solution for taking screenshot of an url .

Spittie• 12 years ago

Not him, but probably PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html)

derwiki2• 12 years ago

SauceLabs

NicoJuicy2• 12 years ago

Perhaps http://www.ledenboek.be, a Dutch membership management used by 1 client. Dont have time for any marketing And already translated it in English And French...

Currently i have a bigger project And i dont have time for it.

Its my backup plan if i lose my full time job for extra revenue.

On the bottom there is a demo link ;-)

MateuszMucha3• 12 years ago

http://bp-chart.com - store you blood pressure records. Chart, statistics, table view. Share them with your doctor. "Take your pills" e-mail reminders.

Over 5k registered users, 3.8k monthly visits. I haven't had time for it in the past 2 years. I keep it around because it really helps people and that gives me a warm feeling :-). It could surely use someone with a heart for marketing. At least a few monetization options (cash could be gotten from users, caretakers, medical facilities, drug companies).

tomfakes2• 12 years ago

Hi - can you email me - tom at craz8 dot com? I'd like to know technical details and a price you'd sell this at.

Thanks

MateuszMucha3• 12 years ago

Hi Tom, I sent you an e-mail.

crixlet• 12 years ago

would love to see if I could help out on the marketing/monetization side. I'm interested in moving into the health tech space. email me at ah@aaronhanson.com

MateuszMucha3• 12 years ago

Sounds interesting, I sent you a reply.

joeag2• 12 years ago

I have a client that has a group of medical clinics that could be very interested in this app as the base to store a variety of different values along with prescription schedules - can you send me an email (see profile).

Thanks!

WoodenChair2• 12 years ago

Poemz - anonymous poetry app for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poemz/id476811547?mt=8

Includes a web backend which allows poems from the app to be shared on social networks. http://poets-anonymous.appspot.com

The app has good reviews and thousands of submitted poems in its database, backed by Parse.

Monetization is through ads and the sale of credits to submit poems beyond the 5 credits you get with the app. I have done 0 marketing so have not been able to see how far monetization can be taken - right now it's quite low.

bazookaBen5• 12 years ago

any email I can contact you at? thx

WoodenChair2• 12 years ago

Feel free to reach out to me at snpukwana at gmail

rdegges• 12 years ago

http://www.bestfreebitcoin.com

The most popular listing of free bitcoin websites for new bitcoin users. It contains several affiliate links, and generates a bit of revenue each month. Not hard to maintain, but I'm occupied with other things, so wouldn't mind selling for a bit of cash to free up some personal time.

Could surely be monetized more, and cleaned up.

Last month: ~33k visits, 100% organic search traffic

jyothepro• 12 years ago

http://albumsyncer.jyothepro.com

iOS App to sync your Facebook freinds albums to Dropbox. Backend is PHP

guybrushT• 12 years ago

http://www.scatter.fm/ (and a mobile app) - a location based deal site and mobile app for hunting deals from nearby shops. Zero users (never launched).Available to anyone who wants to run it.

gillis5• 12 years ago

I'm very interested. Reply with your info or check my profile.

chaseideas4• 12 years ago

Very interested as well, can you email me details?

linh• 12 years ago

I had a very similar idea. I can't find your contact info, but you can contact me at henry at henrylin.me if you want to discuss this further.

ValG2• 12 years ago

Chain Reaction iOS/Android game: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chain-reaction-connect-dots/...

Makes ~$1500+ in revenue on a monthly basis. Pretty low maintenance, just add levels every other week to keep engagement (~2 hours a month of work). 2600+ reviews, average 4.5 stars.

Box It: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/box-it!-dodge-the-dots-free/...

Another game, jezzball clone. 200+ 4.5 stars. ~$300 per month revenue. Can be much bigger than it is.

Started Instamotor.com with my partners and we're selling b/c we'd rather take the money now and put it into Instamotor than wait every month to get incremental value.

email in profile.

grimtrigger4• 12 years ago

How do you make money on Chain Reaction?

Igglyboo3• 12 years ago

Any free app either has in-app purchases or advertisements. This app has both(you can just look at the app store listing and see this).

alecsmart1• 12 years ago

Can you give me some kind of numbers on how much you would be willing to sell this game for? Besides Obj C, is there anything else one needs to know to manage the game?

pibefision• 12 years ago

HTTP://CryptoCurrenciesTalk.com

Community about crypto. 6 months old. 100 members. 3000 uniques a day. Highly indexed un Google. Discourse based.

archivator• 12 years ago

Book In Bulgaria - http://www.bookinbulgaria.com - It's a full-blown reservation system, with a hotel reception endpoint (so that availability is always accurate). Hotels can sign up themselves, and it also has fully automatic billing.

We've received really positive feedback from both hotels and tourists, it just turns out that Bulgaria is a really (really) tiny market.

AlexMuir4• 12 years ago

The Big Eat http://www.thebigeat.com

Menu and takeaway listings (mainly in the UK). Makes around $6,000 per year of Adsense. It's been fairly untouched since I started it in 2006. Has good pagerank for a lot of takeaway names. Costs are a Digital Ocean Droplet @ $5 a month = $60 per year.

Trufa• 12 years ago

Just out curiosity, how much are you expecting to get for a site like that? I really have not clue how to calculate something like this. Hope it's not rude to ask :)

sharemywin• 12 years ago

sites like that are going for around 5-6k on flippa.com. might bget more because of the history. but usually around 10-12mo revenue.

AlexMuir4• 12 years ago

Here is the problem with valuing a business like this... It's my business so I know that revenue has actually risen year-on-year since I set it up (and on just looking is actually $9,000 a year) So for me, I know that I couldn't take less than $40k for it. Since I'd never earn anything like that return on that amount of money elsewhere, even assuming revenue sits static for 5 years.

On the other hand, who in their right mind would pay that with nothing but some Adsense numbers and Google Analytics to go on. So to answer your question "What do I expect to get for it?" Nothing - I don't actually expect anyone to pay what I'd sell it for. And so I'll probably keep it forever.

The only situations that I can see panning out are

a) someone buying it for a brand (unlikely)

b) an established player buying it for the traffic and SEO reasons (a good move IMO)

c) someone with plans to monetize and/or grow it in different ways

or d) a fund is established which buys up all these scrappy little sites, monetizes and maintains them, and earns a steady 20% return for its investors.

I'd actually be very interested in working on d) if anyone wants to get in touch.

kendo78• 12 years ago

Typically sites on Flippa.com sell for a multiple of 18 months profit. Sites that are selling for 5 figure sums or higher can be 2-3 years profit multiple. As with most things though, it's only really worth what someone else is prepared to pay. The domain might be more valuable to someone than the site for instance.

wingerlang2• 12 years ago

Just wondering. You say it is basically untouched, and it generates a fair amount of revenue by itself. Why would you sell it? Why not just let is be and get the income?

michaelt• 12 years ago

Presumably because the buyer was offering a high enough multiple of the annual revenue to be tempting.

I'm sure the seller would decline $6,000 and accept $600,000. The buyer would be looking to find a point in between that both buyer and seller were happy with.

pja• 12 years ago

I think HN just knocked you offline!

Dwolb3• 12 years ago

I worked on this concept for a school project [1] for the US market and I like the simplicity a lot. Are businesses pretty responsive in claiming their takeaways?

[1] http://imgur.com/GhLBvb4

AlexMuir4• 12 years ago

They are completely unresponsive, at least in my experience.

tempestn3• 12 years ago

Cool idea, and congrats on living the "passive income" dream! ;) One quick suggestion if you're interested: I found the white text on light background on pages like this one a bit tough to read: http://www.thebigeat.com/uk. (Also reduces the professional feel.) That one change would probably take just a few minutes. That said, with $6k in annual income, if I were you I would seriously consider getting some quotes to have a professional web designer give the whole site a facelift. I'm not saying it looks bad by any means, but I wouldn't be surprised if a really polished, professional look had a noticeable impact on your bottom line, possibly paying for itself within a few years.

(If I didn't already have too many projects to work on, I would seriously consider making you an offer, but alas...)

rahimnathwani• 12 years ago

I'm curious: how did you get over the chicken-and-egg problem when you launched this?

How did you seed it with restaurant menus in order to attract your first users? Was there (and when?) a tipping point when you had enough eyeballs that restaurants started to add their own menus?

AlexMuir4• 12 years ago

I initially wanted to charge takeaways £20 a year to list their menus. No-one was interested. Over the entire life of the site I've probably had five people list a menu. I walked the streets of London and Manchester collecting menus, scanning them in and typing in all the details. It was shit. I then sent a personalised letter to each takeaway with a thumbnail of their menu asking them to register on the site and get a free promoted listing. Not one person did.

At some point I'll write a blog post about this. I still have virtually zero engagement with takeaway owners.

qdz902• 12 years ago

Would anyone be interested in a platform that keeps up with these side projects, like, "show", "find co-founder/co-creator", "sell"?

grimtrigger4• 12 years ago

I would

wingerlang2• 12 years ago

Sure.

lucb1e• 12 years ago

Exists. I forgot the name though...

fiatjaf4• 12 years ago

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home

asoto• 12 years ago

https://www.sideprojectors.com does this

qdz902• 12 years ago

I do know a few, but posts like this keep hitting the HN frontpage. Those alternatives must not meet the needs. So maybe this my next weekend sideproject!

gillis5• 12 years ago

A couple people have mentioned SideProjectors.. I do feel as if SideProjectors doesn't have the "dynamic" aspect that even something like this thread does. If you could create something that had a dynamic feel where no listing would ever go dormant that would be great!

abeiz• 12 years ago

Just sold https://bitflop.me

simonbarker87• 12 years ago

http://www.oneqstn.com - has around 200 - 1,000 daily visits. Very popular in Saudi Arabia (no idea why), could do with some time spent on promotion.

goldins2• 12 years ago

http://www.moredrunk.com - Lists alcohol from different bars and grocery stores in order of Alcohol Content/Price. Haven't touched it in over a year and the parser needs an update. Not a lot of traffic currently but perhaps has a high potential.

laoba• 12 years ago

Typed in Walmart, got an instance crash:

IndexError at /

list index out of range

Request Method: POST Request URL: http://www.moredrunk.com/ Django Version: 1.3.1 Exception Type: IndexError Exception Value:

list index out of range

Exception Location: /home/moredrunk/../moredrunk/views.py in PlacesList, line 117 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.7.1 Python Path:

['/home/moredrunk', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7']

Server time: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:56:14 -0400

goldins2• 12 years ago

I am aware. That was the "parser needs to be updated" part. Probably should have fixed it before posting! Thanks for looking.

bluedog• 12 years ago

India based government jobs and exams search/listing engine. http://www.findjobexam.com I built it as hobby project few weeks ago but it looks awesome and has potential to become kick-ass product in its niche i.e. Indian students.

kaa2102• 12 years ago

spendology.net/calculators - Several online financial calculators including a smart budget calculator, rent vs. buy calculato, and a gas vs. electric car calculator. The website his in a partnership with Bankrate Inc. to serve advertisements for banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and credit cards.

adrianmacneil• 12 years ago

https://exp-resso.com/ - shopping cart CMS plugin (PHP), ~100k p/a revenue. Could probably be a full time income for someone looking to escape the 9-5 and work from anywhere in the world.

lukeholder• 12 years ago

want to build a version for craft :) ?

quaffapint• 12 years ago

Just for my knowledge - would love to hear more on how you get your customers and able to make such a nice revenue. Thanks.

krmmalik3• 12 years ago

My side project is http://storifi.it

I dont have the time to work on it anymore, but i'd still like to see it do well.

Would prefer to discuss a large controlling interest rather than a complete sale for reasons i'm happy to discuss.

Contact mastermind at storifi.it

iDemonix• 12 years ago

Just so you know, the buttons don't work for me. Chrome v33 on Mavericks. They're blank green until you hover over them.

Also the logo does the same.

krmmalik3• 12 years ago

Didn't know that. Thanks so much.

quickpost4• 12 years ago

http://mmabuzzsaw.com/ MMA News aggregator. 12,000 uniques per month. Aggregator / 30k pageviews. No ads right now, but could easily add them.

grimtrigger4• 12 years ago

Why no ads?

quickpost4• 12 years ago

Pure laziness on my part. I built it for myself and using it has been payment enough, but now I'm getting too busy to run it and do any kind of promotion. Feel free to email me (in profile) if you want more info.

imjk• 12 years ago

Did you build the sites yourself (aside from the blog) or is it built on a cms? Also, where you do you get your traffic from? I can't imagine a site like this indexes well in search engines.

quickpost4• 12 years ago

Built in Django. Fully automated. I haven't touched it in 6months or more and it just keeps running.

And you are correct, not a huge search footprint due to the lack of unique / authoritative content, but it's got good rankings where it matters - "mma news aggregator" => #1. :)

dcpdx• 12 years ago

Just sent you an email. Curious to know what kind of CMS you're using as I'm working on a similar project.

grimtrigger4• 12 years ago

http://www.gemsinthejungle.com/ website+iOS app.

Product discovery for amazon-aholics. Don't have the money to invest in marketing right now, so I'm sitting on it till I have the capital and focusing on other projects.

ROI was a little under break even. I was marketing via amazon-fan subreddits. Theres a super simple CMS powering it as well (a google spreadsheet hack).

Willing to sell for 30k or looking for investment partners in the $5k range.

-Aakil

aakilfernandes@gmail.com

www.aakilfernandes.com

andrewtbham• 12 years ago

I have an app, OnSite Time Tracker, in the Apple app store. It's a location aware time tracking app. Last year it made $2,138 in revenue.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onsite-time-tracker/id470803...

email is on profile

bigsparky• 12 years ago

hey mate your email is not on your profile

nav2• 12 years ago

http://www.sportschimp.com HTML5 app/website. HotorNot type sports betting with friends.

RussianCow• 12 years ago

Seems to 404 for me.

tekknolagi7• 12 years ago

Remove the 'www.' prefix

deanpcmad• 12 years ago

Desktoply - a Desktop & Homescreen sharing site - http://desktop.ly Email me at dean[at]voupe.co.uk if interested

bitsofpancake• 12 years ago

Check out ShowKnow: a web app that lets you create Khan Academy-style videos, edit them, and upload them to YouTube, all completely in the browser. No users, but everything is functional. Try it!

[https://www.showknow.com/] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXz8oFOsaGE]

muratmutlu• 12 years ago

We made an iPhone app that finds Instagram photos in any location you choose. Just drop the pin on the map and geo-tagged photos appear. It's also an Instagram client

150,000 downloads 1.2 million sessions Featured by Apple twice

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instabam!-explore-instagram/...

mrfusion• 12 years ago

Nothing is loading when I click on photos

DenisM• 12 years ago

Well, that's a lot of pent-up supply of side projects!

It seems like a natural buyer would be someone like a student who wants to kick the tires of the whole running a small business thing, but start with a better baseline than merely "from scratch", mitigating some market risks, as it were, and reusing existing code.

What I like about this is that rather than all the research and development going to waste, it's helping someone else. So if you want to start a new thing, you can try to buy the closest thing that's already there, and stand on the shoulders of the previous generation.

There's an idea for a market place lurking in there somewhere. not so much from "get the most cash for your side project", but from the "find a good use for your old work" angle. I have a couple of projects I want to offload myself, and I care more about them being put to good use than about finding the highest bidder or whatever.

aetherspawn• 12 years ago

But a student has no money.

adventured• 12 years ago

When I was student age, circa late 1990s, I had a few people I knew with money offer to set me up into an existing web business if I found something interesting to purchase. They didn't have the technical chops to run something, they knew I did, and they had the money. Friends, family, investors, there are numerous options for a younger person to pull this off - even more so if the sums aren't too crazy.

nhebb• 12 years ago

I think this is the flip side of "business guy seeks technical co-founder". I would love to see a site that partnered up developers with marketers. I can't be the only developer that realizes that they suck at marketing.

franl• 12 years ago

Is it really that you suck at marketing, or that you'd just rather spend time coding/building? :) I totally agree with your comment either way.

husky2• 12 years ago

Yep - I'd also love to see this

jason_slack• 12 years ago

I have a popular cross-platform text editor (well, it was popular until I had to get a full time job).

I wrote a ring-tone maker for OS X that lets you select your music from your iTunes Library and mix it up.

scottydelta5• 12 years ago

I made http://www.pastemehere.com (a screenshot sharing utility) but never got time to promote and make money out of it, still running on my server. Though its not much but still would be happy to get anything for it. It doesnt store images on my server but on imgur anonymously so saving you disk space on server ;)

habosa4• 12 years ago

www.blogmask.com

It's a 100% anonymous blogging platform with a clean interface. Just start writing and set a password for your post so you can come back later and edit it. Stores literally zero information about the author. Has a stolen-from-svbtle voting system and a reply mechanism.

I believe it has potential because I left it untouched and came back a month later to find dozens of employees of the company OpenEnglish using it as a forum to discuss their issues with their employer and to anonymously coordinate action. They have no fear of ever being "found out" because I couldn't even tell you who wrote what.

Built in a week and I'd give it away for free to anyone who wants to move forward with it. I think it's a really great idea but I'm not sure where to take it.

scottydelta5• 12 years ago

I would love to have it and move forward to see how far I can improve it and monetize it. I also started working on a dynamic blogging platform using python last week(https://github.com/scottydelta/miniblog)and could use ideas from your project to improve it. Let me know what you think about it. Cheers :)

habosa4• 12 years ago

Email me, you can find my email in my profile. A few people have expressed interest so I'd like to find a way to get as many people involved as possible.

krmmalik3• 12 years ago

I'm not in a position to buy it, but have to say that i love the concept and i'd definitely use it.

I've been looking for exactly this just this week.

xux• 12 years ago

Love the editor GUI. Are you using a framework for that, or did you code it yourself?

habosa4• 12 years ago

It's hallo.js plus Foundation CSS, not my work!

morgante• 12 years ago

Have you open sourced the editor? It looks great!

habosa4• 12 years ago

The editor is hallo.js, not my work at all and already open source. If you want to know more about it ask me on the alumNY group :)

sandrae• 12 years ago

We would like to sell our casual PC game Gemsweeper - released in 2007.

http://www.lobstersoft.com/gemsweeper/

It's a nonogram puzzle game and it made a fair amount of money on portal sites like Bigfishgames and Real Arcade. Since the market has changed a lot and it is not promoted any longer, it now only makes a couple of hundred dollars a month.

Initially we intended to release a sequel and even created great new levels. Since our other software business is quite time consuming, we haven't worked on the game since 2008.

lefstathiou• 12 years ago

Below are two projects we have that could use a little more love. We may not be looking to sell them per se but would be willing to explore sharing in some of the equity/upside with the right person that wants to run with them.

www.scriblink.com

One of the largest online whiteboards. Built on old technology, needs a refresh but makes some respectable money every day from ads and monthly subscriptions.

www.groupie.co

Available on Web and iPhone app. A niche group messaging and social networking tool.

dk8996• 12 years ago

I would love to help you with making scriblink more modern so it doesn't need Java.

vbv2• 12 years ago

I made http://www.cliffchat.com/ a couple of years ago.

It's a place where college/university students get their questions answered, answer others questions, and help each other out.

In a way, a stackoverflow for students.

Lilme• 12 years ago

I have a few ideas for this. Send me an email sagacityhappens at gmail

vbv2• 12 years ago

I'll shoot you an email today. Thank you.

fiatjaf4• 12 years ago

I have this photo-portfolio-profile-builder: http://pflio.herokuapp.com/

It supports custom themes (there is just one for now) and more customization can be build upon it with little code.

I wrote it for a customer who wanted a simple portfolio website (just the pictures and some pages for textual information), so I made this CMS-like thing to edit the page and it could be marketed for more customers etc.

But I don't have any hope it will get a customer, so its interface is still uncomplete (and it is in portuguese), but it works (with a custom domain). What would you do with it?

jawerty• 12 years ago

Hyro - real-time HTML5 editor - http://jawerty.github.io/Hyro - if interested, contact me at jawerty210@gmail.com

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feifan2• 12 years ago

cupsofcocoa.com

A blog with iOS programming tutorials starting from Objective-C itself and installing Xcode to networking and graphics. Strong ratings on content and writing quality.

I started the site in high school — I was teaching myself iOS development and realized there wasn't a site that started from ground zero. So I set out to fix that.

30k monthly visits at its peak (without any promotion), but since coming to college I haven't had time to create much content. Now getting 10k monthly visits.

Been around 2.5 years. Would love if anyone's interested in writing some posts, updating existing content, or taking over the mission of teaching people to program on iOS.

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adambenayoun• 12 years ago

How can I get in contact with you? Alternatively reach out to me (email is in profile)

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feifan2• 12 years ago

Just sent you an email

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techvibe2• 12 years ago

I have built this site almost 6 years ago. Twitter users can tweet texts with more than 140 chrs.

http://www.fullstory.co/

The site according to google analytics about 50k visits monthly.

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bazookaBen5• 12 years ago

how do I contact you?

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waleedka4• 12 years ago

Website Screenshots: http://www.bitpixels.com

Serves 40 million images a month. It can generate small thumbnails or large screenshots of full-length Web pages. It runs itself and I rarely touch it, but I don't have time to improve and monetize it.

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Fogest• 12 years ago

How do you make money from it right now?

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waleedka4• 12 years ago

I don't yet. I needed a service like this a while ago and the existing ones were too expensive for my level of traffic, so I built one and then decided to open it up to others as well. That was years ago and it grew over time. I never got around to building a payment system for it. It was always something I wanted to do but never had enough free time to do it.

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ejb994• 12 years ago

Do you make anything form it now? What are you hoping to get for it? - and what stack are you using?

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waleedka4• 12 years ago

It's two parts: An App Engine/Python for the UI and user registration, and a Linux server for image capturing (Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, ...etc.). At first we used popular libraries like Phantomjs, but eventually had to write our own to scale better.

I'm experimenting right now with moving the image capturing code to an App Engine managed VM to simplify things and make it scale easier.

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gotrythis• 12 years ago

If you don't sell it, please open source this. :-)

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consta• 12 years ago

Wow .. that is something I have been looking for quite some time. In the meantime I decided to make a custom solution, but yours seem to work way smoother.

- Do you cache images? If so, how long are they cached? - Are there any restrictions, beside adding the attribution link, for commercial usage?

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waleedka4• 12 years ago

Thank you. I cache images on App Engine. I have a simple API to force cache eviction (email me if you need it). There are no restrictions other than the attribution link.

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TomGullen• 12 years ago

40m images a month as a free service? How much is that costing you to keep up?

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chaseideas4• 12 years ago

Please email me traffic details and more info. Would be very interested in taking over, or working with you, on this project to grow it to that next level.

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catshirt• 12 years ago

http://brainy.io is a project i made that creates a complete API for you by inferring information from your Backbone code. it is a rapid prototyping tool.

the simple idea is that you create your front-end application without an API (using standard Backbone best practices). when you start your application, Brainy can inspect your routes and models and create an API for you.

future potential includes something like websocket support (syncing data), and out-of-the-box server side rendering. i have both of these working but not complete.

i'm not exactly looking to sell the project, but i'd love to appoint a new owner to the application. it has a lot of potential i just simply can't prioritize it right now. my email is in my profile if anyone wants to talk about it.

edit: i'm giving away something i put a lot of time in for free and i'm getting downvoted. why am i not totally surprised.

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fookyong• 12 years ago

http://pitchpigeon.com

Press release platform for startups. Been around for a year, makes about $1k per month, all organically with zero maintenance. Still tons of potential but I am just way too busy with my main startup now, in a different space.

Contact me at yongfook@gmail.com if interested!

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markhall2• 12 years ago

Email sent

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yvsong2• 12 years ago

http://www.ulmusoft.com

Prosper Stocks -- best visual stock screener for iPad in my opinion, and investment portfolio performance study tool. My interest shifted away from stock market and would like to sell this app.

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LluisGerard• 12 years ago

I was also thinking about creating a stock screener but don't know where to get market data. Where do you get yours? Thank you!

I think your app could be better with some UX/UI re-thinking.

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yvsong2• 12 years ago

For commercial apps one needs to buy data. Personal projects can use free data from some websites. I have ideas (and others' suggestions) to improve the UI of the app, but decided to pursue other directions.

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joewee• 12 years ago

I've been sitting on partypal.com for a long time. Any ideas for apps that could use this brand?

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cjstewart882• 12 years ago

I've always kicked around the idea of selling Tubalr, if anyone's interested shoot me an email(cjstewart88@gmail.com with an offer.

- URL: http://www.tubalr.com

- Age: 3 1/2 years

- Cost to run: $9

- Registered Users: 28,009

- It's been wrote about on sites like mashable, techcrunch, fast company, the next web, etc. .. it's been on the front page of hackernews and reddit. Google for "tubalr" to read around the web.

- Traffic has died down a lot because I haven't spent the time taking it to the next level... it needs to be mobile.

- 37,992 pageviews monthly

- Average time on site: 1 hr 5 minutes

Anyways, like I said, shoot me an email if your seriously interested. I'd love to make my time spent on the project pay off by helping me pay for student loans...

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Jake232• 12 years ago

I feel this could be easily monetized, if you don't get a sale you should look into it for sure. iTunes have an affiliate system, and they have an API endpoint for search. You could simply have some links to purchase the latest album of the currently playing artists / just played artists etc.

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viiralvx• 12 years ago

Cody, I'm still sorry I couldn't have maintained the Android app for you. :/ I loved working on it but just balancing that out with school kicked my ass.

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cjstewart882• 12 years ago

No worries man, hope everything is going great :)

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stevesw013• 12 years ago

I remember when it was first posted on Mashable. It was a great site, that I remember. I'm very suprised the traffic died down.

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a2xm2• 12 years ago

I'm in a similar situation. I built a music site for a uni project, and have over 100,000 monthly page views but no real time to work on it.

Would love some funding, or for someone to take it over and help out with student loans.

Have you had any luck trying to sell it?

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chrismiller• 12 years ago

Is there any way to get in contact? I might be able to help.

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pearjuice• 12 years ago

I saw this years ago having development updates on Forrst. Tubalr outlived its spawn-place.

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frade33• 12 years ago

http://longr.co (a longer tweet web app) brand new. it supports markdown, the post i wrote couple of days back. http://longr.co/1h34Wk I am primarily using it now as my blog. but sole problem here is i love it so much, that instead of selling it (unless you are gates cough) i am more inclined to use it as my blog :)

btw should i open source it in the event i can not sell it? would it be worth to open source?

But hands down, it's one of the most refined web app of its sort.

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ghempton2• 12 years ago

https://deckepic.com - Cards Against Humanity meets your social graph. With a few clicks, generate a custom tailored deck for you and your friends based on Facebook data. Download a completely free version or pay for a printed version of your deck.

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DanceInside• 12 years ago

This is awesome. I was actually thinking of making a custom deck for my friends, but it would have been too time-consuming. But now...

Maybe you could start charging a modest sum for downloading the complete PDF file? I know I would totally pay for that.

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ghempton2• 12 years ago

That's not a bad idea. Wish there was more time to give it the love it needs.

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davman• 12 years ago

This is cool, and I wanted to pay you money, but you only ship to the US :(

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ahrens• 12 years ago

That's awesome! I'm actually working with a kind of CAH version, could be interested in buying it. What do you want for it?

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jw989• 12 years ago

webNES (http://webn.es) - A mobile NES emulator for the browser.

A finalist at the PennApps hackathon in 2014. It gained a lot of attention on social media (Youtube/Twitter/The Blogsphere) during the competition and has been gaining users ever since. Has nearly 300,000 uniques visitors and an average of 2,500-5000 page views daily. Also featured in many online news websites such as Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/webnes-plays-your-nintendo-games-in-a-...)

Contact me at jawerty210@gmail.com for more information

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wrobbins2• 12 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RobbinsDev...

A very basic android game (no ads or purchases inside it) with about 400 downloads per day, 15k current installs. I know there's not much monetization potential but it could drive steady traffic somewhere. You could totally redo it and get some automatic ranking in the store. I would use the money to pay for college which is coming up in about 18 months.

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ashbrahma3• 12 years ago

Could you post your contact info please?

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wrobbins2• 12 years ago

You can find my info on the app page. Just email me at will [at] robbinsdev [dot] com

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leoplct• 12 years ago

Yes, http://uk.zapping.io

It's a TV Guide, full of potentials.

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bwethington2• 12 years ago

where do you get your data?

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motionman• 12 years ago

I have a finished content sharing site which I had to shut down to focus on my other business. I still believe it's a great idea. Basically people submit content (pictures, videos, music. etc) related to six weekly topics. As you submit the topics you start filling your wedges in a game fashion.

The site is python based.

wehgee.com (placeholder site) https://erlibird.com/go/wehgee (screens) can provide more screens if anyone is interested

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gdilla• 12 years ago

cloudkeep.com - nothing goin on. just the domain which is a good one.

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atko• 12 years ago

I am actively working on a "Reddit"-like community. Open source, asp.net mvc (c#,sql). Been working on it for a few weeks now. Would love to get some more devs to join and contribute. At first this was a hobby thing that started with windows forms but after finding out about asp.net mvc and entity framework, this turned into at least 3 hours a day thing :)

http://whoaverse.com

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Skuttan• 12 years ago

Isnt this more a "exactly like reddit" community?

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verkaufer• 12 years ago

http://www.randompokemongenerator.com

It does okay, gets about 40,000 unique pageviews per month. Analytics says about 60% of those are unique. I'm cleaning up the code right now and trying to figure out how to get a higher RPM.

I'm averaging about $100/month from this site. But I'm toying with selling it.

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bazookaBen5• 12 years ago

how can I contact you?

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IvanK_net• 12 years ago

http://www.hdrtool.com/ - you can view HDR images (High Dynamic Range - brightness is not clamped into 0-255, but can be any Float32 number) in HDR format and export them into some "clamped" format (png, jpg, webp).

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FriedPickles2• 12 years ago

http://instantserver.io

Provisions you an ubuntu vm instantly for free with web terminal access.

It got some love here at one point [0]. Fraud, business model, and personal availability problems all struck at once, so I had to turn it off. I'm confident they could all be fixed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861749

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chaseideas4• 12 years ago

Interested in talking about how we can get this one back online, or perhaps I can take over the project? Email me.

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hsx• 12 years ago

I'd be interested in seeing the back end code? What was it written in?

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FriedPickles2• 12 years ago

All in Meteor! Servers are ec2 spots.

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ghouse2• 12 years ago

TuneFind -- http://www.tunefind.com/

Trailing Month, Google Analytics:

1.9 MM sessions, 1.2 MM users, 8.3 MM pageviews

Age - 9 years.

Database of ~60k song appearances in TV and movies.

Great SEO -- Google search for "<show_name> music"

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stevesw013• 12 years ago

I have experience with high traffic music sites. What price range would you be interested in?

Are all the songs user submitted or do you use content scrapers?

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ghouse2• 12 years ago

All songs are user submitted.

Send me a note from http://www.tunefind.com/contact and we can discuss.

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darndt• 12 years ago

http://www.immomapper.ch/ - It's a meta search engine for rental property in Switzerland. Real time filtering, price comparison to rentals in the neighborhood, etc

Switzerland is a tiny market, have been thinking about expanding to other countries...

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mirsimiki2• 12 years ago

https://github.com/madprops/lindora

This is an online code editor I made but im not improving it any further until it shows some interest.

Some features:

work directly from your server through FTP code autocompletion split windows infinitely save sessions that remember your files and layout built in file explorer with Unix-y commands tools to aid on web development vim and emacs keyboard mode very customizable appearance

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Flenser• 12 years ago

Looks interesting. Had to work out that I could right-click, and CTRL+Space opened the menu. Buttons for those with the keyboard shortcuts / instructions in tooltips would have been helpful.

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coinspotting2• 12 years ago

iPad blog at http://iptiam.com iptiam is abbreviation for iPad therefore i am. Domain can be used as i ping therefore i am also.

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DanBlake• 12 years ago

http://controlc.com - I still believe in the project but I simply dont have the bandwidth to get into desktop development for osx/win any more.

http://tinywhois.com - A pretty simple whois site that can do lookups by url, ie http://tinywhois.com/ycombinator.com or http://tinywhois.com/8.8.8.8

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redmaverick• 12 years ago

I like the design for tinywhois. It looks great. How many queries can it handle per day?

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zwtaylor• 12 years ago

http://www.bitlegal.io - A database and map of global virtual currency regulations

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markhall2• 12 years ago

Couldn't find your email in your profile. Drop me an email of your asking price.

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vanwilder77• 12 years ago

http://boxmydownloads.com

Has paying users, and demand for features. But because of time constraints, I am not able to give enough time for this project. So anyone really interested in taking this further, feel free to drop me an email at: virendra.rajput567[at]gmail.com

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vespig• 12 years ago

http://VisualizeUs.com - social bookmarking for pictures.

* Last month stats: ~2.5 million pageviews, 846,000 uniques.

* Highly engaged community with ~210k signed up users (all organically, 0 paid marketing) and 7 million pictures in db.

* Expenses ~$400 (hosting and outsourcing).

* Making ~$2k/mo profit, mainly from advertising and photo stock affiliates.

* Established since 2007, lots of SEO potential and very poorly monetized.

It's not exactly a side project, it has been our main business for the last 5 years, but we've got bored. We still believe it has a huge potential though so we're looking for someone who can take it to the next level.

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marban6• 12 years ago

Has Pinterest made a major impact on your business?

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ajerez2• 12 years ago

Absolutely yes, although we opened VisualizeUs like 4 years before Pinterest, Pinterest quickly took the advantage for social bookmarking for pictures.

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apapli• 12 years ago

http://www.aquarium-manager.com

Built with RoR, running on Amazon. Needs a few tweaks otherwise sits there running happily. It meets the needs of a niche and is steadily growing in users / mailing list size. (About 1600 now).

You'll find my email address in my profile if interested.

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d2ncal• 12 years ago

Video Mirchi - Bollywood music videos

http://videomirchi.com

Website and android application. It's the best way to listen to indian music videos without getting lost in youtube.

Launched about 1.5 years ago and has been growing steadily since. It's fully automated and new songs get automatically added so I don't have to spend a lot of time on it. I do keep updating the app every now and then.

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ashbrahma3• 12 years ago

How do I get in touch with you?

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brickmort• 12 years ago

Cool! I just spent a good 20 minutes playing through some of the playlists. Some really catchy music on there, and the production on some of the videos is amazing. Nice job!

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cetius• 12 years ago

https://ceti.us - a crypto currency market analytics site I've been working on slowly for about 6 months. The analytics are inspired by physical modeling. I'm a full time aerospace engineering and astrophysics student that will be starting a PhD next year. The website could be monetized but I haven't the slightest clue about the best way to do that, nor do I have the time to figure it out. I literally only make improvements to the site out of necessity when my BTC growth plateaus...

Some screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/ToA1xSy.png http://i.imgur.com/33oT24C.png http://i.imgur.com/U2Gx5ak.png

Stats: < 20 active users average session: 3hrs 30minutes bounce rate: 24%

Note: If you sign up for it, not all features are available to new users.

I'm also open to taking on rapid programming contracts if you need something built in the span of a few days. However, it'll have to wait a few weeks until finals are over.

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mirsimiki2• 12 years ago

http://gsick.com

It's a complete media sharing platform I made. Similar to Reddit but with a much faster way to view the content.

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megablast2• 12 years ago

It ran very slowly for me, and hat a lot less info. Scrolling was very slow.

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usaphp2• 12 years ago

http://zbugs.com - the little project which was even on a front page of HN, was featured on many websites has couple thousand monthly visitors only.

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bazookaBen5• 12 years ago

interested. how do I contact you?

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pkulak• 12 years ago

Mealfire.com Nobenjam.in

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mvalente• 12 years ago

None of them are built but they are all for free :-)

http://mvalente.eu/2014/03/31/some-random-wild-ideas/

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marincounty• 12 years ago

I got a 1954 chevy truck. Older restoration. Supposed it ave a corvette engine(327?). You will need to tow it away. It's a first series. If you tow it away I'll take 5 grand. You will not find a better truck to restore--at this price. And the best part about this project, there's no computer.

And yes--for the right price I will sell physibles.com. It does nothing now, but I think the name has potential. I want way more money than Thepiedpiper gt though.

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rajlal2• 12 years ago

protrackonline.com

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wattjustin• 12 years ago

I own and run ObjectiveSee.com and it receives about 1500 page views a month on average but is targeted and a good domain. Just don't have time to run it any more and someone with the passion and time could run that site. Or use the domain for their own project.

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rajlal2• 12 years ago

http://interviewinfo.net/

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mandeepj• 12 years ago

http://stayontop.co/ - I built this desktop app for people spending most of their time on desktop. The idea is to have them remain connected with social, news, weather and email without unlocking the mobile phone every few mins to check for updates.

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kennywinker• 12 years ago

I recently listed one of my apps (a quirky photo effects app) for sale on flippa. Mostly out if curiosity to see if there is a market for that sort of thing https://flippa.com/3061163-quirky-ios-photo-app-with-5-000-f...

App link here https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rainbow-puke!-gold-vomit-las...

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jonathanbird• 12 years ago

- http://www.snippetrepo.com - Snippet Repo is a members-only code repository to share useful code snippets. - 10-15k unique visitors a month - 4 months old - 2k users

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coupdejarnac• 12 years ago

1. Android app that compiles report of billable hours spent talking on phone or texting. Intended for lawyers. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bxtel.com.call...

2. Daily deals aggregator and deal wallet. Built on Django. www.pocketpiggy.com (i just took this offline this morning :/ )

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markis125• 12 years ago

trackfordropbox.com

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fotoblur• 12 years ago

http://www.fotoblur.com - ~170K Visitors / mo., 2.6 Million page views / mo., inquire within.

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zscho973• 12 years ago

https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/dealios/id734913446?mt=8

It is an app that aggregates deals from over 1000+ different daily deal site to find the best deals nearby.

Worked on it for a month, couldn't find a designer so just left it.

zackman8000@gmail.com

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antonwinter2• 12 years ago

bcoinex.com

its an automated bitcoin trading bot. The bot actually does make a profit for the customer, all be it a small one.

Its had about $1000 of purchases in the last month. Which is also how long its been running.

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sideproject3• 12 years ago

I maintain the site http://sideprojectors.com

Would love to hear your comments & feedback on how things can be improved to help you sell your side projects.

Personally, it's been quite rewarding to see people exchanging messages and actually buy & sell side projects.

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imtu803• 12 years ago

Is it for sale?

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sideproject3• 12 years ago

you mean my site itself? :) no.

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glennon• 12 years ago

Perhaps add a "date added" for each project, and allow sorting of projects new-to-old.

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Fudgel2• 12 years ago

I'm finding the text for the font on the left menu a bit hard to read. I'm on Win764 running chrome. It's a bit small and the "e"'s in the font you're using seem to bleed into the background a bit. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Mii1jhj.png

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tomatohs• 12 years ago

http://mote.io

Turn your phone into a remote control for the web. Works with:

- Youtube - Spotify Web - Hype Machine - Vimeo - Pandora - Rdio - SoundCloud - Grooveshark - Plex - TuneIn Radio - Google Play - Twitch.tv - Last.fm

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http://22pixels.com

Photoshop download resources. 15,000 visits / month.

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http://rooster.am

Wake up call alarms personalized with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

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Email me if interested: ian@meetjennings.com

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zscho973• 12 years ago

4k in sales a month with NO ADS in the past 16 months*

I own Facebook.com/strapbacks Strapbacks.com and it is starting to get boring!

Looking to get out! I have an awesome supplier in NYC and LA.

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zscho973• 12 years ago

zackman8000@gmail.com

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sideproject3• 12 years ago

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/751/strapback...

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bwagy• 12 years ago

This is a great thread, there is an idea in matching these with marketers as vice versa they're usually looking for great ideas to sink their teeth into.

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coinspotting2• 12 years ago

Hacker News For Coins - http://coinspotting.com

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mattgecko• 12 years ago

very interested in this - can you email me? hello[at]mattcowlin.com

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psobot• 12 years ago

http://the.wubmachine.com, an automatic music remixing web + mobile app that I built a couple years ago. Still gets anywhere from 20-40k uniques/month. Has native iOS and Android clients, as well as the web app. Ads + in-app purchases generate a couple hundred bucks each month with nearly-zero maintenance, but I'm not sure I have the free time to keep it running indefinitely.

- Costs under $50 per month to run

- Generates anywhere from $200-$1200 per month, depending on the season (it gets big each December for some reason)

- 20,000-40,000 uniques each month

- native iOS and Android apps have ~10,000 installs each

If anyone happens to be interested, shoot me an email at hi@petersobot.com.

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tinkerdol• 12 years ago

Wow, this is awesome! How does it work? Or, if you don't want to give away your secrets, how could one get started with mixing and transforming music like this?

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iloveyouocean• 12 years ago

http://viddyjam.com

Pandora for music videos.

~40k/views

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mailshanx• 12 years ago

How do you get the data necessary to generate recommendations?

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tegansnyder• 12 years ago

http://www.gofootwork.com

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gravitronic• 12 years ago

I wrote DJPad for Android. OpenGL, C, SDL. Generates about $200/mo for last year with no updates, and really unoptimizable ads (just admob). Would sell to someone who could keep updating it.

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rbres• 12 years ago

Sites By Hand https://sitesbyhand.com/

$150k rev last 12 months Full project management platform to manage clients & contractors (developers, designers, erc.) with auto-quoting proposals, signing and paying online, and tracking and monitoring the progress of your site as it's being built -> 80% done with the platform & built in Rails.

Was doing this while at Stanford, but school is overwhelming and I can't keep working on it. Really promising opportunity to build the first scalable custom web service company.

Rights to existing clients, brand, full code repository with $100k worth of development hours, portfolio, multiple domains, trademark, and tons of infrastructure to execute rapidly on projects.

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RedneckBob• 12 years ago

Yup, CityBidz: http://citybidz.com

Email me jim[DOT]oquinn@gmail.com

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pgr• 12 years ago

http://errorlevelanalysis.com was a side project of mine that ballooned out to modest popularity (100k+ monthly uniques), although it was something that I never charged for.

It's something that I decided I don't have time for myself, but perhaps it could suit someone else.

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avalaunch2• 12 years ago

That's pretty cool. I have no idea how to monetize it though.

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elleferrer• 12 years ago

OutsourceSy - http://www.OutsourceSy.com

*Please use the contact form on the website for inquiries.

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sidwyn• 12 years ago

http://definitionapp.com - One page dictionary for iOS.

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hahla2• 12 years ago

Reversegif.com - 300k-400k visitors per month (majority US) for 3+ years with no work. Adsense can be replaced after reviewing uploads for nsfw content - avg $10/day. Pageviews 700k+

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dylanwenzlau2• 12 years ago

Well hello! I must stay I've stumbled on your site a few times, being in the GIF business. Cool to see so many of these site owners on HN. I also left a reply on a site I run, imgflip.com, somewhere on the page here.

NSFW content is definitely one of the harder challenges when it comes to advertising on user-generated GIFs...

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reboog711• 12 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.igorKn...

Igor Knots and the Magonda Maze.

A mobile maze game inspired by Traffic Jam and/or Unblock me. Instead of moving items with your finger, you move a character (Igor Knots) and he must push items out of his way to clear the maze.

The game is on the Google Play Store, the Amazon App Store, and the Nook App Store. I also have a version that works on my iPhone / iPad, but never got around to uploading it to the Apple App Store. I also have the engine working in a browser.

The game got very little traction; but I never did anything to push it. The game comes with 50 levels, but I have an additional 50 designed.

I always wanted to expand the game to include more challenges and types of obstacles. But, I moved on to other things.

It was built w/ Flash/AIR.

Contact me here: http://www.jeffryhouser.com/contact.cfm

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sfalbo3• 12 years ago

I created http://easypromocodes.com to generate business cards with promo codes for iOS apps.

The site was created with PHP, Moo.com API, the iTunes API, and the Google link shortener.

I needed this myself and never really marketed the site. I found it useful to create promo code give aways when attending trade shows for some of the other iOS apps I developed (the iJuror iPad app for attorneys is the example shown on the site).

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cbzk• 12 years ago

Love the concept. What's your userbase like? I'd be interested in buying it/taking it over.

Edit: I see you have it listed on SideProjectors. Is $25,000 correct or a typo? Doesn't quite line up well with 10 users a month :)

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sfalbo3• 12 years ago

Hi the price on SideProjectors is a typo - I need to fix that. No wonder no one has jumped on it :)

The usage is really quite low - I never spent any time marketing it unfortunately. It was easier for me to use the site than manually create the collateral that I wanted so I built it.

If you'd like more details feel free to email me (address in my profile).

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alfg• 12 years ago

http://guildbit.com/ - Free, temporary, 10-slot Mumble servers for the gaming community

I built this for fun while playing around with the Murmur API and thought about offering premium upgrades, in addition to the free tier.

- Only about 1.5k visitors/month for the last 6 months since launch

- About 5GB in Mumble traffic/day

- Built to scale, but only costs about $15/month to keep running so far, including 2 Mumble server instances (US West/East). Thinking about adding more locations.

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tank6b• 12 years ago

I have some domains in that I think are cool so if anyone is interested just let me know

koraxon.com - https://dribbble.com/shots/222674-Koraxon-Logo

upsolid.com

enymo.com - MONEY totally misspelled but cool sounding

uprain.com

arslight.com - photography - https://dribbble.com/tank6b/projects/1893-Ars-Light

pulxr.com - https://dribbble.com/tank6b/projects/512-Pulxr - https://dribbble.com/tank6b/projects/63610-New-PULXR

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sfalbo3• 12 years ago

I created a project called http://customlawyerapps.com. The site allows law firms and attorneys to create iPhone and Android apps for their business.

The project includes a Wordpress website to collect orders. The customers choose the features they would like from a 'menu' and then are given a price quote.

The project also includes 'base' iPhone and Android apps that are then customized to a customer's needs.

I haven't had the time to market the site very much but it would be a good opportunity for someone that has mobile app development background and the ability to market the site to the target market.

If you have any interest my contact info is in my profile.

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frankdenbow• 12 years ago

Startup Threads Monthly - https://www.startupthreads.com/monthly

200 subscribers (another ~100 that are delinquent but could be reactivated). With some marketing effort and the right company connections can make you $4-5k / month in profit within a few months.

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gtheme• 12 years ago

http://www.gtheme.io - Premium Ghost Theme Marketplace

Ghost (https://ghost.org/) will be the next big blogging platform and GTheme.io is the first Ghost Theme marketplace that focus on Ghost only. Ghost App marketplace is ready and waiting official Ghost App available.

Email at my profile.

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coreymgilmore• 12 years ago

I created a real-time communication platform for controlling home-automation and connected devices. Allows for control from anywhere with web access, very little set up on the "client" side. I tried to reverse engineer the way Nest Thermostat works (communication and syncing settings wise). I succeeded and it works.

First test project: Droplet, www.dropletlabs.com

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pointpointclick• 12 years ago

kittyroulette.com + kittehroulette.com

Chat roulette for cat videos... Next Kitty!

Not currently live... No revenue... launched it on April 1, 2010 when news about ChatRoulette was all over the place. It went pretty viral and enjoyed a nice long tail of traffic. Took it down recently to switch hosts, and never finished...

I also have the following domains: keyboard.cat, instakitty.com, instapuppy.com, kittyleaks.com, okaykitty.com, emojikit.com, bananaphone.me, srsbiz.co

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dfitzpat• 12 years ago

Unbound Booking http://unboundbooking.com connects performers (musicians, educators, storytellers, puppeteers, etc) with libraries, schools, community centers, etc. Email dan@ the domain for more info.

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joshsharp• 12 years ago

Trying to get rid of my tweet archive service, Twitterscribe: http://twitterscribe.com

It's listed here on Side Projectors: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/756 but email address is in my bio if you want to discuss it outside there.

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dylanwenzlau2• 12 years ago

imgflip.com - meme & gif creation/sharing site

Traffic: 2.5M visits/mo, 5.5M pageviews/mo

Revenue: 9K/mo

Cost to run: 1.5K/mo

The heart of the site is the Meme and GIF generators, best on the net if you ask me ;). Pro subscriptions are the biggest source of revenue. I'm not sure I would say "want to sell", but I spend most of my time on a much larger project/team, so I don't give it the attention it deserves. For that reason, I would be glad to see someone (or a team) who wanted to build it out much more.

[edit: spacing]

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rihegher• 12 years ago

Really nice site!

I'd like to have some more infos, Could you send me an email as I don't have yours? vincent at 13pass.com

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Lidador• 12 years ago

CommentGame.com, featured on http://allfacebook.com/comment-game_b126161

Thanks.

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joeblau• 12 years ago

There should be a website for selling old projects. This post has more comments than points.

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rememberlenny• 12 years ago

https://flippa.com/

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chintan395• 12 years ago

http://talkbig.co - Coming Soon

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_djvl• 12 years ago

[link redacted] - a site I've made with a friend back in 2008. It requires absolutely no maintenance and earns a few hundred bucks a month. Tried selling it, but the best offer we got was somewhere around 10k $, which is way below our expectations. Now actually working on renovating it and probably adding some new content and features.

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avalaunch2• 12 years ago

Assuming a few hundred == 300, 10k seems fair, if not generous. At the absolute most I'd expect it to fetch 20k. My guess is that your expectations might be a tad unrealistic.

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timothycrosley• 12 years ago

http://www.honeydo.es - A social todo list. I use it everyday personally, but simply don't have the bandwith to get it to the point I believe it needs to be at and work full time / create and maintain my open source projects.

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hgcheah• 12 years ago

I have just sold a small side project last week. Now I'm looking to let go of my favorite project..

Rainbow Shopping List ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chak.rainb... ) - Android app with 12k+ downloads and 2k+ active users - Cost to run: ~$6-7 (hosting + domain)

And a bunch of other apps. Check them out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Chak+Develop...

Just landed a new job so I don't think I'll have time to actively maintain these projects anymore.

You can reach me at hgcheah@chakdev.com

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knodi123• 12 years ago

I was a developer/founder once. I partnered with another developer, and we made a tool that would track the ranking of your site in regards to certain search terms, to a.) figure out whether your SEO guy was worth the money, and b.) figure out which SEO tricks worked best.

We weren't really making any money ,so I sold out my half of the company to a business guy. My former dev partner then went on with the business guy to make it a half-million a year business with about 4 hours a week of maintenance work.

Of course, I truly believe it wouldn't have gone anywhere if we didn't bring in a business dev guy, and I can't see any reason in retrospect why I should have expected their business to do so well once I left, but...

Seller beware! :-)

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ejb994• 12 years ago

Seller beware, yes, but I also think developers with ideas to sell are a dime a dozen - without execution to make it successful/profitable business ideas by themselves are not worth much.

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User9821• 12 years ago

What changed after the new business partner showed up? How did it transform from basically breaking even to half of a million a year?

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soupsranjan2• 12 years ago

Gingerly (http://www.ginger.ly) is a Location-based Expense Tracking Android app that we've built on the side: think Mint meets Foursquare.

USP is our ambient sensing platform which shows you how much you've spent at a business, and your receipts for that place the moment you arrive there.

16K+ downloads and makes us about $50-100 per month (varies based on the month). Free app but Monetization is via in-app purchases (unlimited expense reports) and ads.

Expenses: $5 per month with a Digital Ocean droplet that hosts the website. Haven't had any maintenance issues and the app has been on auto-pilot mode for last 1 year.

With some repolish of the UI, this app has tremendous potential. A competing app with half the features but prettier UI ramped up to half-million downloads in 6 months.

If someone offers the right price, willing to sell it. Alternatively, also interested if someone wants to work with us on an iPhone app on an equity or rev-share basis.

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bwethington2• 12 years ago

Really interesting idea. I had a similar idea for a financial management app, but the use of location is really clever! Hit me up if you are serious about doing an iOS version. I would be interested in contributing.

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soupsranjan2• 12 years ago

bwethington, thanks for your kind words. Didn't find your email address in your profile. Drop me a line. My email address is in my profile.

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bazookaBen5• 12 years ago

Can't find your email in your profile. Can you re-add it?

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megablast2• 12 years ago

Project Tracker Pro for the iPad app : https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/project-tracker-pro/id741818...

A very easy to use project management app, with lots of features.

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rajeshinf• 12 years ago

SMART platform - http://smart-platform.com/ - Out of the box SaaS enablement container (cloud ready). It is open sourced.

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anuaitt• 12 years ago

gmailsharedtasks.com

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canadaduane• 12 years ago

I'm making a magnetic shield for the board game, Settlers of Catan, so that all the pieces clip together nicely: http://facebook.com/hexi.glass

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lonelycrypto• 12 years ago

http://www.toonxn.com - Its a game portal which I created for my lil bro. But then I thought of making it big and created a chrome app for it too. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toonxn-offline-gam... .. The chrome app provides offline games for those who don't have internet access..

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lbr3• 12 years ago

scendr.com

Makes sending hand written cards easy. Drop an email to note@scendr.com. Writers take care transcribing and sending.

Churns out a good chunk each month. Could definitely scale further if you had the time and energy.

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bildung• 12 years ago

Looks great! May I ask how you handle payments?

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lbr3• 12 years ago

Thanks, two way to handle payments. 1. You can click buy in bulk - from there you can buy any number of cards. 2. Or is you just send a note. Then we start writing the card and reply with a request for payment. We send the card when you pay.

Give it a try. Thanks for the question.

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junto• 12 years ago

I've been looking for something this for years, but the service is missing one thing - scheduling.

I have terrible hand-writing and a poor memory for birthdays. I'd like to schedule cards to be sent out, pre-writing them maybe a year in advance.

It means I can sit down and write all the birthday cards in one sitting, and then forget about them. Not really in the spirit of birthday's I know.

I would need to be able to cancel a card (should for example, an elderly relative die before their birthday).

Where are the cards sent from? I'm wondering what stamps get put on the envelope when sent internationally.

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lbr3• 12 years ago

Really interesting feedback. Thank you. -Cards sent from Vermont. The postmark is small and bland. -Stamps are USA stamps. Very plain, but elegant. -With regards to your feature, I'd be happy to create that for you. If you send an email to note@scendr.com with a document containing: the letters, the addresses and the dates you want them sent - I could take care of that for you. Let me know.

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tempestn3• 12 years ago

I have a side project that I'm done with: www.movietempest.com. It's been allowed to languish for a while though, so would need a bit work to be functional again. (Also the tech isn't the most modern anymore. Python/django on the back end, with mootools and custom js on the front end.)

Might as well post in case it's of interest to someone though!

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juanre5• 12 years ago

Greaterskies, http://greaterskies.com - sells posters of the sky, thousands of stars and all the planets as seen from a place and at a time. Selling PDF ($24) and printout. Seems to be getting popular as a wedding present, also for birthdays. Common lisp backend computing the posters, Python and Javascript for the rest. Very nice conversion rate, but I haven't found the time to work on improving the number of visits.

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cupofjoakim• 12 years ago

This is really nice! You should add some options for style though, I found the yellowish-names really hard to like. Whoever buys this needs to hire a print designer, if only to do minor correction to the basic template.

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juanre5• 12 years ago

Thank you! And you are right, my strength has never been graphic design. But a significant fraction of visitors are buying, so I'd be inclined to spend the resources in gaining visibility.

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marban6• 12 years ago

Can you describe the actual production + s&h process? I assume it's 100% outsourced?

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juanre5• 12 years ago

Sure. When you buy the printout the PDF gets computed, and an email is automatically sent to a US-based print service provider who prints and ships. You can also download the PDFs. When you buy the PDF only (the most popular version, despite the fact that the price of the printout is very competitive) everything is of course automated.

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aurumpotest• 12 years ago

Quick note: on the homepage, bottom left:

"But isn't this like any other start chart?"

I assume it's meant to be 'star chart'...

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juanre5• 12 years ago

Correct. Thank you very much. Fixed.

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dshanahan• 12 years ago

got a ballpark amount you'd sell for?

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juanre5• 12 years ago

Would you mind contacting me by mail? I'd rather do this privately.

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mtayseer• 12 years ago

http://rawa7.com

Search engine for public transportation in Cairo, Egypt. The website is in Arabic.

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chintan395• 12 years ago

I am building a site exactly for this. Please pre register at http://join.talkbig.co/ First 100 Members get free listing.

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kayoone• 12 years ago

I have two alpha state multiplayer games for sale (c# unity3d), one is Desktop/Browser only, one also has an iOS client. Complete with Client/Server code, tons of assets (arts/sound/music), concepts, videos, Web backend for stats, ingame purchases of virtual currency, item shop, integration with several gaming platforms etc.

Both games have been discontinued when my startup ran out of money in 2012, but the usage numbers were promising.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6abiv4rz4qe6srh/hDvmz1Kf_v

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqv37l1y1wgoabv/20120807_174851.mp...

info@yoone.de if you are interested in more info

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chintan395• 12 years ago

I have a couple of projects I would like to pass on to someone. http://www.quoteily.com http://wephp.co http://www.knowshops.com Contact me at hi@chintan.pw

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xchngs• 12 years ago

Exchanges For Outlook - https://www.xchngs.com Status: Transitioning from Pre-Alpha to Alpha

This product shows you concise Email Exchanges in a way they occurred across multiple email silos. This view is not sorted by date, but arranged in a hierarchy based on how they occurred. We are actively developing and using this internally, but need a lot of help getting the first bunch of users and building a business around this.

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hanspeide• 12 years ago

I've made a service for festivals/concert venues/labels, where they can promote their events in various streaming services (e.g. Spotify, Rdio, Deezer etc.). The difference between their regular web page and the streaming apps is that the festivals can now link their news and lineup to the actual artists playing. So, if Outkast is playing at a festival they can add a news item for it, and link to Outkast's artist page where the user can read Outkast's bio and listen to their whole back catalogue. Also, the whole line up for the festival is available on one page, so it's easy to listen to all artists playing, and sort by date, stage, etc.

http://www.promotor.fm (currently only a landing page)

http://open.spotify.com/app/oyafestivalen (Spotify app for Norwegian festival Øyafestivalen)

The app is service agnostic, so it can be used with any streaming service. The only thing needed to add a new client is to create the frontend part, and link it to the back end APIs. Also, clients can add content from their own CMS and add it to the Promotor database through our APIs.

Currently there's only desktop support, but I'm working on adding mobile support for Android and iOS.

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cezarfloroiu3• 12 years ago

http://www.poemia.com : publishing platform for poets inspired from medium.com but only for poets.

I consider selling it as I don't have much time to focus on. The domain is top and the site has a lot of potential once you manage to build a strong community - shouldn't be too complicated but requires advertising efforts.

Built on Asp.NET MVC/SQL Server, hosted as Azure website.

PM if interested.

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spossy• 12 years ago

http://www.tiny.ie/ - URL shortener with click through statistics i put together for my own use at the time, have done nothing with it since.

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victorin• 12 years ago

http://spacedelta.com - Your own website, hassle free

* Highly engaged handful of clients * Fully automatic (demo accounts, paypal recurring payments, domain/mail purchase and association, etc.,) * Expenses ~50$ (hosting and providers) * Profits ~250$ / month (paying clients)

Website builder focused in easy of use, aiming to solve online presence for freelances and small businesses (website, email and domain).

Established since 2011, we have still some customers from the very beginning.

It's not exactly a side project, it has been an established business for the last 3 years, but we've struggled to grow it with no success.

Looking for someone that could take it to the next level.

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rk0567• 12 years ago

http://assembleyourpc.net - a pc builder tool (for India). 50k+ page views per month. Started in Mar 2013. Generates $300 per month (through Adsense and Affiliate programs) with few hours of work per month. (almost passive)

My email : ramesh at rameshjha.com

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jCanvas• 12 years ago

http://www.componentfactory.com

A suite of .NET WinForms controls for Windows UI developers. I no longer have the time to keep developing it and the sales are not enough to support a developer full time. Maybe someone else can take it further or make use of the software.

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Lichine• 12 years ago

Very nice idea gillis!

I've paused my work on http://stafet.com/ (a marketer/salesperson meet developer/sideproject/startup) site bc. not having enough time, but the people I've talked to about the concept were also really interested in a site that handles this kind of connection.

Note: the site is on a dev-server on PagodaBox, which means it needs to boot up (takes 15-20 seconds) explaining the load time.

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vayarajesh• 12 years ago

I would like to work on a side project with the owner of the side project to make it better or larger in terms of performance and features-set. If anyone interested in collaborating on the pre-existing side project let me know :)

Also if you want to sell your assets of your side projects(if it reached the start-up state) you can use the http://shutdown.io/ (which was posted before few weeks on HN)

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akshatpradhan• 12 years ago

A workflow tool to help merchants meet regulatory PCI requirements in order to process credit cards.

http://www.ComplianceChimp.com

You can login with Github (no password) to test it out!

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simondlr• 12 years ago

Yep. http://twimemachine.com. Easily read old tweets. 700k Twitter users have used it. 31k uniques/month. Used by Paulo Coelho, NBA & ESPN.

Stats here: http://simondlr.com/post/63455198178/twimemachine-for-sale

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chrisBob2• 12 years ago

Ocean Commotion: an iPad game with unique multi-touch game play. The graphics are great, but I have no clue how to market, and I am not getting the downloads I am looking for.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ocean-commotion/id518629974?...

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sycren• 12 years ago

I would be interested in helping you to market it for a share in revenue.

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chrisBob2• 12 years ago

Great! Send me an email: chris@tactitionprogramming.com

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galfarragem• 12 years ago

http://www.archimodels.info

Leader blog in this niche. I don't want to sell but I would be interested in having a valuation.

Revenue: ~$100/month (adsense and amazon affiliates).

Costs: $0 (tumblr hosted) + ~2-4 hours curation/month.

Stable 4k uniques/month.

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elliottkember• 12 years ago

http://getforge.com/ - a superfast static web hosting service. Some clever tech, a bunch of users, very little support and brings in money. It's a nice project, but its success is more important than our owning it. Someone else will be able to do more with it than us :)

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cezarfloroiu3• 12 years ago

Do you have an email to contact you ? Didn't find any in your profile.

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ryanschmidt_• 12 years ago

Your site came as inspiration to us on a project we're working on. I'd like to learn more about it. ryan at skycatchfire dotcom

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theanirudh• 12 years ago

Pixter: http://pixter.in

Like Instagram, but for more privacy conscious users. It's ad-free so users have to pay a yearly fee for using the app similar to App.net. Has support for comments, likes, push notifications and live filters.

We couldn't market it properly and also people were not as willing to pay as we had expected so we want to sell it.

Includes the iPhone app, the fully responsive web app and the backend. Code can be reused to make any type of photo/selfie sharing app.

More details: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/717/pixter

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jelmerdejong• 12 years ago

Recurify - http://www.recurify.co

With Recurify you can make any order a recurring order. Subscribe to anything!

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imtu803• 12 years ago

What is your contact information? Can you email me at imtu80 at hotmail.

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brianbreslin• 12 years ago

I am trying to sell off http://twitbin.com Built it in 2007, updated it along the way. 450k downloads, 7500 daily active. Considering any serious offers.

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sdotsen3• 12 years ago

Thinking of selling https://www.ikeepm.com.

- 6000+ registered users - 26,000+ items entered - 3000+ documents saved - 500+ visits per month (Someone good in marketing can boost this)

It's an online home inventory software. It was featured on Lifehacker among other sites related to home organization. My wife and I had a baby last year so I never had time to market it properly. A lot of folks want an iPhone/Andoird app but I'm not the right person for that.

Someone good at marketing can probably have this take off. No other competitors are as easy to use as iKeepm.

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ahmadss• 12 years ago

Are you currently monetizing this? What is your contact info?

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sdotsen3• 12 years ago

I recently re-launched w/ a new design (frontend and backend). Also implemented Stripe. I have one user who signed up for the Plus account. i'm seeing more and more companies sign up.

The two most requests are mobile apps and a multi-property feature. I think there's a bigger market for property mgmt companies.

sam_at_echoio.com

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locusm2• 12 years ago

How long did it take you to get to 6000 users?

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sdotsen3• 12 years ago

Launched in 2012 I believe it was.

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joshcrowder• 12 years ago

http://arcticfox.com/ - A video and slide deck syncronisation tool. It is a HTML5 based player which separates the video from the presentation. A great tool for conferences and e-learning. Heres an example: http://app.arcticfoxtv.com/d/onbxr

Its still the only tool to my knowledge that doesn't use flash and works on mobile.

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fuzzythinker• 12 years ago

The first link should be http://arcticfoxtv.com/ ?

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akardell• 12 years ago

I'd entertain offers for iGarageSale for iOS and Android. Though I've pulled the apps from active sale, you can still get a pretty good idea of what they provided at http://www.igaragesaleapp.com/

Was the #1 app for finding garage sales (~10,000 paid downloads and ~10,000 free / lite downloads), but my primary startup has taken off and I didn't have time to maintain.

There are some pretty interesting use cases left unexplored - e.g. social aspects or other verticals (apartment rentals).

If you're interested in making a serious offer hit me up at igaragesale [at] performantdesign [dot] com.

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shutton2• 12 years ago

http://www.meetifyr.com/ - been around for 6 years, haven't touched the code in years, gets around 3k page views and 100 active events a month.

http://www.bookmarks.io/ - working but mothballed.

http://convenely.com - current project, no traffic yet.

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cezarfloroiu3• 12 years ago

Interested in meetifyr.com - please drop me a line, you can see my email address in my profile

thx

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imtu803• 12 years ago

What problem you are solving with convenely? Isn't SMS an alternative solution? Also, does it update my calendar?

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shutton2• 12 years ago

Basically the same problem as my other site Meetifyr - a group of people figuring out which day to do something on. Everyone votes on which days work best from them. The difference for Convenely is the calendar view and every event has it's own mailing list. It doesn't update your calendar.

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m0dE• 12 years ago

http://www.innGrid.net - hotel management software. Minimal maintenance. (few hours a week) started 5 months ago. 100 signups, 9 active users. Generating about $2k/month. I'm currently working as hotel owner/manager

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skyriser• 12 years ago

Password Grid: http://passwordgrid.com/ Simple password generator (iOS)

QuoteAddict: http://www.quoteaddict.com/ Quote collection from movies/tv (web/iOS)

DailyWallpaper: http://dailywallpaperapp.com/ New daily wallpaper (using Bing.com) (iOS)

QR Wallpaper: http://passwordgrid.com/ Simple way to share a URL or email address from your device's lock screen (iOS)

VirusZoo: http://www.viruszoo.com/ A safe and fun way to play with viruses (web, iOS app in the works)

Contact: info@skyriser.com

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lxmorj• 12 years ago

I'm selling PaleoPax.com. I've moved to running MonthlyBoxer.com fulltime, and don't have the time or skills necessary to grow PaleoPax. Right now the Paleo Starter Kit sells for $49 including shipping, and averages $15 profit per sale. Without any marketing effort besides spending ten minutes to get an EveryMove account set up, I'm selling ~30 per month. Product contracts are all solid, and I'd be willing to continue doing fulfillment for PaleoPax for $2 per box. That'd mean a buyer would make $13 per sale and only have to deal with driving traffic.

Email is alex@monthlyboxer.com

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zackproser• 12 years ago

http://www.article-optimize.com/

Gets a few articles through it every day - not making any money yet.

Need to invest the time to get more traffic, tighten the conversion process, clean up email marketing component, etc.

I think it has potential as a lead gen for other products.

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wusatiuk2• 12 years ago

got a project in beta (http://www.calltracking.at/ - currently german only, will soon launch the english version at http://www.calltracking.net) which will give you the chance to track phonecalls in your web analytics , depending on the traffic source the visitor is coming from. I see a huge opportunity, especially in the B2B segement and in explanation-intensive products and services. beta testers / investors / buyers welcome.

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otto12• 12 years ago

Sounds interesting.

Would love to see this for The Netherlands..

No pricing yet for the German version?

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wusatiuk2• 12 years ago

would love to see a dutch betatester as well. please contact me on g+ / skype to setup a testaccount.

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aoakenfo• 12 years ago

I have a Mac/PC drawing app that I never released: http://www.conceptualinertia.net/aoakenfo/forkira-flash-draw...

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andypotts• 12 years ago

A lot of people are complaining about not having the time/budget. Checkout getstarted2014, you can win about £50k development, marketing, and rackspace hosting for your web/mobile app idea. - http://getstarted2014.co.uk/

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smallegan2• 12 years ago

https://mip.li is an interesting bookmarking site that I think a buddy of mine would sell.

http://www.uptimebot.com - I bought the domain that has plenty of backlinks, etc.. re-branded it and have failed to actually launch it.

http://www.backlink.org - Cool domain with an interesting business model idea/plan but no development done here yet.

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Fudgel2• 12 years ago

Is https://mip.li a functional site? I can't seem to sign up.

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drelihan2• 12 years ago

Proposal: I have the cash and reasonable business/tech experience, but not the bandwidth to run a "full-time side project" ( does that term make sense to anyone other than me? ). Would consider putting up capital to fund purchase and an initial operating budget if a willing and capable partner presents himself or herself to operate the site. I would take a "board of directors" - type role ( periodic advice and oversight, but not involved day to day ). You would be the CEO. If you'd be interested in something like this, shoot me a message and we'll talk.

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mmiklos• 12 years ago

Hi, Whats your email ? :)

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drelihan2• 12 years ago

Contact info sent

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DandyLooper• 12 years ago

Over 25,000 sites have already installed KejeK.

We're talking on a social sharing tool that shows those using it how many people actually see what they share. We've pushed it for some time, and today it's installed on more than 25,000 sites.

We're selling it via SideProjector (BTW, for those here who said there has to be a site for selling side projects..) : https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/709/kejek-soc...

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richardkmiller• 12 years ago

Firms.ly -- a Rails app to help law students get jobs at law firms.

I built it in 2011 with a friend going to law school, when the economy was particularly bad for law students. But we both have full-time jobs elsewhere and have no time for Firms.ly. We've had 3 paid customers.

We listed it on Flippa last week, with no reserve: https://flippa.com/3056958-web-app-with-simple-revenue-model

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binarydreams• 12 years ago

http://cssdeck.com - lets see what kind of tempting offers you can come up with.

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ranty• 12 years ago

Music mixing app for the Mac - http://www.atomicdroplet.com/. Has excellent beat gridding, amongst other things.

Makes about $1k/month, have run some promos in the $1-4k territory. Would suit someone who is actually competent at marketing because my social numbers are appalling. Circa $60k.

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nitinpande• 12 years ago

https://mentii.com - a peer to peer career advisory network. The site features are listed here - https://mentii.com/features.

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khayorde_4-real• 12 years ago

Sorry I'm posting this here. Don't know how to start a new thread.

What Potential Security issues are present in the RUST system, and what recommendations would you give to deal with them?

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antonwinter2• 12 years ago

2nd post for me www.landinggear.me

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stevemart• 12 years ago

Nice site. Is this for sale? There is no apparent revenue model - are there plans to monetize it?

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digita88• 12 years ago

I did have a side project that I was close to selling. Luckily I didn't and one year later the potential buyer shut down and I still have my side project

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miriadis• 12 years ago

yes, http://HTMLform.com. Its a form designer with some cool features like popup forms. Cool price too.

If you want to try the Premium version write me at info(at)htmlform.com

if you are interested write me there. I dont read HN a lot.

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yogodoshi• 12 years ago

I have a bunch of side-projects too but most of them are in the limbo because there isn't someone behind it to work daily on it. They are:

- http://startya.co/ - we help non-tech people launch his MVP.

- http://drinks4.us - Drink recipes to teach you how to make drinks with what you have in your fridge!

- http://gamescom.in/ - we notify you when the game you are waiting for is released

In portuguese:

- http://xingueseuamigo.com.br - for U$ 1.50 we prank your friend anonymously via phone.

- http://ficougratis.com.br/ - we email you when the app that YOU want is temporarily free.

- http://estoujogando.com.br - a startup that didint make enough money and turned into a side-project. Its a brazilian social network for gamers.

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atx512• 12 years ago

Have a site called ApartmentFetch.com that's been running as a side project for a couple years. Get's about 50-100 SEO clicks a day and have had an Adwords campaign running for quite some time that can generate a lot more traffic than that. Used to monetize it from sending leads to 3rd party apartment sites but some of those relationships dried up. If someone was willing to put the time in to add the ability to charge apartments directly (along with Adsense, etc) could be back to generating some decent revenue.

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ryanstout• 12 years ago

exceptionhub.com

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y1426i• 12 years ago

http://jokstop.com/ - I built this during opensocial days to understand virality factor and later put it up as a website. Currently get's under 300k PV/year. You can have it for $500 obo. Comes with cool domain name, PHP code, MySQL DB, Chrome offline capable extension. Email y1426i at gmail.

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h1d• 12 years ago

I've built DeskPortal which is an application platform on web browsers years ago taking years as my hobby project. Initial version is pretty much complete but didn't have the time to go commercial or find user interests and pretty much kept it as is sitting these days.

http://deskportal.com/ - LP

http://demo.deskportal.org/ - Demo

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enigmabomb• 12 years ago

I spent 6 months building http://KillSwit.ch and really enjoyed the process, but I don't have time for it anymore because of QuiQui.me

It's written in Laravel 4.1 and uses Amazon Web Services. I'll sell the domain, all the code, and all the marketing assets.

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matt_oriordan• 12 years ago

http://easybacklog.com is a backlog management tool. It is fundamentally different to many existing tools such as Pivotal or Sprintly in that its focus is to provide scrum masters and product owners with a tool to estimate, and manage the delivery of a project as opposed to the ongoing endless development of a business. This type of workflow is needed for freelancers and agencies who are typically trying to deliver a service at a fixed cost or fixed scope. Easybacklog provides tools to compare the backlog at points in time and thus renegotiate at each sprint with the client in regards to scope or price.

I have thousands of active users and have asked many of them whether they would be willing to pay, and they are. Unfortunately I just don't have the time now or for the foreseeable future to add a few highly requested features and billing systems for the product. This is an ideal product for someone to pick up, add a few of the really needed features, and start charging existing happy customers.

Get in touch with http://mattheworiordan.com if this interests anyone who has some time to develop a Rails / Backbone application, and wants to create a revenue stream for themselves very quickly.

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cx42net• 12 years ago

http://www.black-frames.net - http://bfram.es : A fun website listing many demotivationals posters, with the possibility to generate or upload images. I have around 400 visitors per day.

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QuasiAlon2• 12 years ago

Ever thought about monetizing it by selling prints/mugs/shirts etc? (or let the creators sell them and take a cut)

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robertoaiello• 12 years ago

I am interested to sell http://rallycause.com/ or to recruit new management team. Hyperlocal deal that uses cause donations as a motivators and causes as a channel to users. Validated biz model with pilot. Good metrics

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wise_young_man• 12 years ago

Leests - http://leests.com

It was created to be more than just a Craigslist clone, to improve local and eventually national listing of anything anywhere with a vision to change how people buy and sell adding trust/safety and improved communication and simplicity in the process as well as being developer friendly by being a platform to build on.

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maswewe• 12 years ago

I have one here.. it's quite engaging but don't have much time to make it as a business.

http://quickasian.com

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