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I am selling my Business Intelligence company on eBay. Check out if interested

11 points| mac-r | 11 years ago |ebay.com

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[+] smt88|11 years ago|reply
Why on earth is the backend written in 3 different languages? That's going to be hard for any team to maintain.

Also, this might work better on Flippa.

And, finally, there are a ton of tools that do this exact same thing, and many are mature and widely used. What's new about this?

For $50,000, I could get an enterprise account with an established marketing analytics firm for 6 months to a few years, depending on the provider.

[+] mac-r|11 years ago|reply
this is very reasonable in terms of flippa and other tools. in terms of 3 different languages - each is good in its own way. i would agree that rails could be totally replaced with node. but overall picking the right tool for each specific problem allows to move faster. you probably know how many languages are used at the backend of github, google, twitter etc.
[+] sirbetsalot|11 years ago|reply
its worth exactly $0 unless you have customers paying for it right now.
[+] smt88|11 years ago|reply
Actually worth less than $0, because it requires a lot of time (weeks at least) to vet the product and then get it up and running again.

And then there's the significant investment (many thousands) in getting users. I'm not even really sure who the users are supposed to be.

[+] mac-r|11 years ago|reply
on the one hand you are totally right. on the other hand there are many companies trying to implement their BI solutions from scratch, this foundation could be a good fit for them. anyway, thanks for your feedback, I highly appreciate it.
[+] paulhauggis|11 years ago|reply
The question we need to ask is why?
[+] mac-r|11 years ago|reply
The reason behind selling the project is that our team decided to split up and angel investors need their money back. Nobody does marketing now and I began to work on other initiatives.