Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell? Many HNers have side projects that make small amount of money or have a userbase. If you would like to sell your webapp/mobile app, please specify. Don't forget to add contact information Note to moderators: Can we please make this a recurring question like whoishiring thread? |
Now I acquire small SaaS businesses at CapitalAcademy.org and make it a point of making the process as painless as possible.
If you have any interest in selling or just want to learn about the acquisition process feel free to say hi, trevor@capitalacademy.org
Snapchat just paid $300 million for the same functionality. They could've bought it from me for a lot less ;)
Maybe that forced Snapchat to spend more money? :)
The app has gone a bit into hibernation lately, so the activity has waned.
Thx for checking it out though!
I built the full stack by hand. The iOS is Obj-C and the backend is NodeJS/MySQL.
Basically, the MySQL DB has checkin data (provided by users or from social media networks) pivoted on metadata (male, female, age) and then passed to a custom visualization algorithm on the mobile device.
Happy to answer any other questions.
I never got round to marketing it so Im open to offers
It's a product search engine that ranks products from Reddit comments and posts.
Any offers welcome!
sample blog - pvsukale.hakrlog.com
Markdown blogging for hackers. Everyone gets a unique subdomain and they can write and publish with a simple interface. A native nested comments section, No ads, No monthly charges. People can follow authors for weekly emails and RSS. It is in beta, no current users though. If anyone wants to support development / buy the project contact email :- pvsukale at gmail dot com .
Developed using Rails. ( I am a last year CS student)
Hosting costs $10/mo Shipping & support take about 5 to 10 hours total per month.
I started this with my 13 year old son over the summer as a way of teaching him how to launch a website, advertise it and sell products through the site.
Now that school will be starting up again here soon, we will not have the time to put into it. I have a few other sites/SaaS products that take up most of my time and he is going to be busy with school so I am looking to offload the site.
Email: bizdiscussions at gmail dot com
No drop shipping. We spend about 20 to 30 minutes per week packing and shipping inventory from our garage.
I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project.
link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks
Can we please make this a recurring question
"What is your pain point?"
"What do you wish existed?"
"What problem in your industry would you pay to solve?"
"What is your side project?"
"How much do you earn from your side project each month?"
It just seems obsessive. There is sometimes a fair amount of participation but I don't really understand what people are getting out of it.
Has anyone who has ever asked about industry pain points on Hacker News ever successfully built and launched a solution? Has anyone who has ever asked about side projects for sale ever bought one or aided in one being purchased by bringing attention to another commenter?
Maybe making it a regular thing would help in that it each iteration only turn up once per n days, but otherwise I feel like these questions come up enough already.
They are general information/discussion posts.
This post's a direct service connecting HNers with assets to HNers who want to buy them. Assuming there are a reasonable number of both, and the replies in the thread so far suggest there are, it's useful to have it recur for the same reason that "Who's Hiring?" is useful.
As for your question on whether anyone's ever bought a side project from a thread like this - the comments on this thread alone suggest there's a fair bit of interest in purchasing side projects, at least.
Commando.io is a web based SSH platform for running commands on servers. The commands (recipes) are centrally stored and versioned and there is a complete execution history. There is an API, CLI, and iOS app for running commands on servers on the go as well.
If interested see HN profile for my contact info.
My own is 8 months old. It averages $3K/month in revenue with costs of $100/month. Mine is a plugin not SAAS. I've had 100 sales so far, currently around 5-10 sales/month. I offer 30-day no-questions-asked refunds, but no-one has requested one yet. I've never had a visa chargeback, either.
My own probably requires at least 3 software updates/year to maintain the revenue level. E.g., a small feature added or a couple bugfixes. Customers always buy annual licenses, and annual maintenance extensions to the license are half price.
I also own another business that makes about $1500 a month (50/50 adsense & product sales) but does require a few hours a week of effort. I've only just started improving this and expect it to hit $3k a month within 6 months. I'm not seriously considering selling unless I get a really good offer but you never know!
I've messaged people before who are making a couple hundred in revenue a month and then ask for $1,000,000. I doubt you're one of those people. But seriously, keep your expectations in line with the reality of your business.
Certainly nowhere near $1,000,000 :) I keep my eye on businesses for sale and have bought and sold a fair few so I have a good idea of what they cost.
Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/nikki-degutis/id119686...
Contact: email in profile
By buying I mean pay the $0.99, not buy the rights to app from you. ;)
Like a couple of the reviews, my kids are obsessed with bubbles and love colorful paint apps.
The desktop software is the iteration that found fit with our users. You'd need Dota to try it, or you can watch the demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_plCQi6PE
I have a set of paid features ready to launch, but I don't have resulting revenue numbers yet of course.
Even after the paid feature release I don't believe I can give it a proper change without more resources, mainly man power.
Not that I necessarily need to sell it. If someone were interested enough to partner up and fill the gaps I haven't been able to address I would be back on it. Guess I should be looking for a HN post that matches projects with people looking to join a project.
My guess is we've landed on similar algorithms to DotaPicker, it's usually the set of matches we're using that makes the difference so I'm surprised the suggestions were the same.
Feel free to add me on Steam if you'd like: http://steamcommunity.com/id/sklink
Though what I find surprising is there are various Amazon price trackers which seem to be operating well. Shouldn't they be using the same url format as yours?
I could be wrong to suggest it but why not make it open source? It helps people wanting to self-host and not run into issues later.
My email is my profile. The site is written in Node.js/angular 1.x. I haven't had to change the code in several months, so it's pretty much "done" as far as I'm concerned, and I'd rather spend my time on other projects.
Has a big userbase on Android, but nearly as much on iOS. Made around 3k$/month for a couple of months a year ago, now it's close to nothing as I stopped developing it, don't really now why. The whole thing is made with LibGDX for Android, using the (now defunct) RoboVM for iOS.
Link: http://2121.io/
Email me at nuno @ domain in link above if interested
I recently picked up this nifty little app from the original developer (https://www.sendcatch.com/), and then immediately got swamped with my main product. It is not currently monetized.
I use it to instantly move larger files between my laptops and phones. Node/Mongo. Costs $5/mo on DigitalOcean. Open to offers! Email in profile.
No revenue, just a side project really. But considering the feedback I'm often getting, it seems to have great potential...
Originally, my challenge was to find a way to turn abstract product prices into more familiar, visual representations of their worth. Imagine paying your Netflix subscription in Bananas for example :)
A Financial Times journalist dubbed it a way to "take us back to a barter economy, where we price things in emoji beer rather than dollars".
Been featured on Product Hunt at producthunt.com/posts/pricemoji as well.
Would be curious to hear for your proposal for such an app? I was thinking $15K or something.
Contact information in profile
It's been completely refactored, has a decent mailing list and list of followers. I'd be interested in selling it or linking up w the right cofounder w some energy to help me relaunch, test, learn, and grow the product.
Contact me for a look behind the landing page.
Open to selling for 1x to 2x ARR, since I've been neglecting it a bit. Email for more details.
As my focus shifted, I plan sell it.
A sports data service for developers and small-medium sized businesses. Tonnes of growth potential.
I had built this with the intention to sell it on the app store but ended up not wanting to bother with marketing and signing up. But idk, maybe it can garner some buys as a paid developer tool app.
In your experience, what level of traffic translates into how much adsense income? Any thumb rule you've noticed?
I'd love to read a blog post about your experience with amazon affiliates, and I also think it'll help with getting those cheques amazon owes you.
I ask because this always seems the biggest weakness of all the existing picking tools. A 1k player and a 5k player throwing the same lineup into a picking tool should ideally get dramatically different suggestions, both because of their own skill and the skill of their teammates.
114 heroes that all influence each other when they play together so if you're looking at matchups for two heroes that don't get played frequently the accuracy is already limited.
That said, my strength is in front end, not statistics. Getting a Normal and High split might be fine as is.
That would limit the available match pool, granted. It depends on how many thousand games you need to make predictions, I suppose. I was able to pull some interesting data a while back from the 2k pool but I wasn't trying to solve as hard a problem as a global hero picker.
you have any questions on how an acquisition for your plugins would work?
Any questions? Not really, I've sold and bought businesses in the past so it's pretty straightforward now.
I would have to collect my own data and poll their API with each match id to get the MMR estimate.
Although that works in theory, their API rate limit is 3/s and last time I checked there were about 1M matches / day (~12/s) so we couldn't keep up.