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

[illdave]

In a previous HN thread about selling side projects, someone floated the idea of trying out a "Sell HN" thread - so here it is.

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.

[mtoddh]

Neekanee (http://www.neekanee.com) - it's a job search engine that scrapes jobs directly from company websites. Everything is written in Python/Django. Right now it scrapes jobs from around 1100 different companies and has features I had always wished were available in other job search engines: ability to filter by company size, type of company (.org, .gov, ...), vacation time, etc.

[seagreen]

Very cool. Any chance you have an API? I just started a site to show Django jobs in NC [http://djangonc.com/] and am looking for places to get data.

[qhoc]

I'm impressed. I have been thinking about doing the same thing, mainly just for myself to search job..lol

How long did it take you do build this?

[jasoncartwright]

Very cool, but it's not obvious how to submit a site for crawling.

[jonmumm]

Filmpage (https://www.filmpage.com). Inspired by Louis CKs digital distribution, I built Filmpage to enable other artists to create a similar page to publish and sell their film with a simple website builder. Was accepted in to a top incubator to go at it full-time, had to turn it because of a prior engagement. Email in my profile.

[jkaykin]

How much?

[AlexMuir]

http://thebigeat.com

Generates around $8k per year in Adsense and slowly rising. Plenty of potential to actually do something with it.

I wouldn't even think of selling it for less than $60k as it's an asset returning 13% on that amount.

People will say, "Yeah, but that's a ridiculous amount to ask." I agree, but where am I going to invest the proceeds that will return me that amount. This is a site that's consistently increased revenue for the past 7 years with close to zero hours of work.

If you offered me $40k tomorrow I'd say no. Because I'll make that in four years, and still have more to go.

[glitch273]

That's close to a 90x monthly revenue multiple. You're assuming that you will keep making that amount every month but how are you getting your traffic? If it's from search engines, a Panda update or competitors showing up could reverse that very quickly especially if you put in "zero" hours of work.

Is Yelp not in those countries yet?

[1123581321]

You don't have to justify why the project is worth more to you than people want to pay for it.

However, keep in mind that for $60k, a person can get a site doing $30k-$60k per year with as much work. That should be encouraging to you because it means there is an equivalent place to invest the proceeds of the sale of your site even though it also means you won't get $60k for an $8k per year website.

[jtchang]

What's it written in? Pretty fast!

Also browsing through it I don't even see your ads?

[udfalkso]

http://isitnormal.com - Active community. > 1M visitors a month. A bit of recurring revenue from premium subscriptions and from ads. Lots of untapped potential here. I just don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves anymore. Custom python/django code, running very efficiently on AWS. Email me if you're interested in buying. Thanks.

[stevemart]

I'm very interested in your site. Please contact me at stmetivier at gmail.

[Brajeshwar]

http://nsfw.in/ - good intention but I think I'm not the right person to own it.

http://onebucketlist.com/ - born out of a Startup Weekend India version - In50Hrs.

[hanula]

Great job with http://nsfw.in . I was just thinking about service like that yesterday! Nice execution too.

[lazyfunctor]

How is http://nsfw.in different from any other URL shortener?

[dangoldin]

Thanks for posting this and letting me go through my various projects. Email me at dangoldin gmail with any questions.

Twirl (http://www.twirlapp.com/) - It's a bookmarklet that gives you a recommended list of your contacts that may be interested in seeing the page you're currently on. I'm in the midst of improving the recommendation piece but I've been using it to share links with my friends. Django/Bootstrap/jQuery/MySQL

Gems of Craigslist (http://gemsofcl.com/) - The goal here is to scrape the Craigslist furniture listings and create a "Hot or Not" to find the best stuff. The scraper is out of date but should be pretty easy to update and also get other cities/categories. Django/Bootstrap/jQuery/MySQL

Wordsio (http://www.wordsio.com/ and http://words.io) - Just a way to play various word games to improve vocabulary. I've been meaning to do something else with this but just don't have that much time. The domain names might be more valuable than the site itself. Django/Bootstrap/jQuery/MySQL

Yet Another HN Reader (http://yahnr.com/) - This scrapes HN every 15 minutes and shows the top stories by points from the past 24 hours. The motivation was to be able to catch up on stories I may have missed and it's a simple Python script that writes to a static site on S3.

[tjosten]

I wrote a document management software for students, DocMan (https://docman.me). The software's ready and awesome, unfortunately I'm not a business guy so I never tried to make money out of it. I'm nearly graduated, and after that I guess I will just have it running for the bunch of users signed up for free. Let me know if you're interested.

(Consists out of web app, iOS- and Android app.)

[alexkearns]

Looks really good. Why don't you offer a 30 day free trial and then charge a monthly or yearly fee. If you don't try to make money out of it, you won't make money out of it.

[cstejerean]

What's your email?

[downandout]

I created a skill-gaming-for-cash site called Cash Champs (http://www.cashchamps.com). Site is offline since we have no marketing, but 3 games and the site are done, and we have a very rare PayPal account that is authorized by PayPal to process skill-gaming transactions. The PayPal thing alone took nearly $20K in legal fees. If anyone is interested, let me know.

[TallboyOne]

Do standard merchant accounts not let you do that sort of thing?

[ComNik]

http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).

[namwen]

I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com.

Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!

[msluyter]

I'm interested in this, but I don't see your email on your profile (I don't see any emails, actually). Is HN actually publishing the emails? I have vague recollections of that being turned off at some point.

[mtoddh]

This looks useful and has a nice clean interface - how does it make money? via Amazon's affiliate program?

[hbbio]

Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it? It's nicely built.

[simonbarker87]

I was thinking about something like this a couple of days ago for Kindle books.

[tommoor]

http://www.skinnyo.com - great site, community, profitable, lots of room for expansion but I'm busy elsewhere and no longer have the interest in weightloss I once did.

[johnrampton]

What's the cost?

[euroclydon]

What is the valuation for a non-subscription, one-time fee, web application (like Bingo Card Creator) as a multiple of monthly revenue?

[jplewicke]

Rob Walling writes about this in Start Small, Stay Small ( http://www.startupbook.net/ ), and I think he mentions a range of 5x - 36x monthly revenue. It's dependent a lot on how automated and easy to maintain the site is, and how high the quality of traffic and revenue is.

[mkjonesuk]

I closed down http://wonderthemes.com last year. It was a failed WordPress theme marketplace with a focus on higher-rates for designers/developers.

You can read about the project in an interview I did here:

http://wpcandy.com/presents/the-story-of-wonderthemes-starti...

I've been taking offers since the site was closed down. Nothing has been serious. A lot want me to partner with them and re-boot the site, but I'm not interested in that. A few are affiliate marketeers that want to split revenue etc... I'd rather just pass on the project to someone else now.

I guess what you'd be buying would be the brand, the domain name and all of the design assets. There is no real 'tech' to sell because the system was a one-off bootstapped bespoke build that would need a major re-factor but all the source code is there sitting on the server for anyone to acquire.

[petersouth]

God, I hope "Sell HN" sticks...

[nubela]

I own a profitable (monthly recurring) and 5-stars chrome extension with proprietary backend support for bypassing the governmental filters/blocks. It is good enough that I spend close to 0 time managing it (the only management == replying emails), and it is growing and profitable on its own. And it is only 3 months old. Everything is automated.

Right now it is configured to work only with the local government, and nothing more. There can be more done, for example, extending it to __other__ countries with a governmental firewall, but I have no time for it (since I'm running my own startup), etc. Send me an email if you are interested to know more. Email is in my profile.

[lucb1e]

http://PlayByLyrics.com - Searches and finds music by entering some songtext, possibly combined with the artist, album or song name.

I'm also thinking of selling this to companies like Grooveshark, Spotify, or a lyrics website. I really like the website myself and use it a lot, but it doesn't get a lot of traffic. It has some potential though, I'm quite sure of that, and if I ever continue serious development there'll also be an app. And yes, I know the design isn't very great, but it works for me for now.

If you have any interest, contact methods are on the website (see the "about" link at the bottom).

[asiekierka]

One thing I noticed is you should try to check the length of the target video - I got a 1-hour-long mashup of songs.

I'm wondering what the algorithm for this is - "Reddit" got me a rickroll, "4chan" got me a Pokemon/Belair mashup, "Hacker News" got me Lil Wayne.

...actually, you gave me an idea.

[simonbarker87]

http://www.oneqstn.com is a simple, accountless survey web app.

Lots of room for growth and expansion but I don't have the time to put into it. A few hundred questions have been asked over the last year and it's had a couple of traffic spikes but nothing serious.

If not interested in purchasing then I am looking for someone to work with me on the marketing/traffic building side of things and would happily offer a 50:50 split on ad revenues (or some other monetization strategy). I don't have any idea how to generate traffic for it so would be happy to work with someone.

Reply below if interested in either option.

[antlan]

What's the tech stack ?

I think this would be useful information for all the sellers to include, as many people reading here will be programmers.

[helen842000]

Hey Simon,

I'm very interested in oneqstn.com - I'm in a position to dedicate effort to boost traffic/marketing. I have some experience in the survey/questionnaire field which would help and I have a suggestion for monetization that could improve upon ads. Let me know if interested, my email is in my profile.

[jeremymcanally]

I'd entertain offers for http://rss.io (including all the stuff with it like code and the Twitter account @rss). I have a full Google Reader-esque reader built and basically ready to deploy (billing code etc. included), but I likely don't really have time to maintain it/get it properly setup anytime soon. :(

E-mail me if you're interested, but keep in mind I've invested a good bit of time and capital in this thing. Offering me $100 isn't going to cut it.

[cstejerean]

Getting "Error 503 Service Unavailable from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" when I try to visit the website.

[TallboyOne]

how did you get such a good twitter account, but without any tweets on it except for a month or two ago?

[perlgeek]

In 2007 I built http://sudokugarden.de/ (German and English site about sudoku, with online playing, highscores, and a loyal user base, about 30k visitors/months).

In good times I made ~2.5k EUR/year with ads (mostly text links to boost other site's pagerank), but I lack the time and motivation to market it right now. It's zero maintenance.

[chaddeshon]

I have CrosswordPuzzleMaker.org. It was an attempt to copy Bingo Card Creator for crossword puzzles. I have about 300 trial accounts (with email addresses), but no paid accounts.

I'm on the second page when you Google Crossword Puzzle Maker, but that only brings in about 10 visitors/day. Getting to the first page could bring some decent traffic.

The site works, but its features right now are pretty minimal.

[score]

1-855-ZEN-MAIL: http://1855zenmail.com

1-855-SEO-LAND: http://1855seoland.com

With both businesses, the business name is the phone number and is also the website URL.

1-855-ZEN-MAIL currently has subscribers and a prospecting/lead gen strategy. They both come with pre-written sales scripts.