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

32 points by duked ↗ HN
A thread similar to this was posted ~1 year ago by gillis . I think it's time for an updated 2015 version and I am on the market for a website/product, possibly in the security space.

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.

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wj
Moviestud.io (movie production software)

Definitely has taken a secondary focus for me.

callmeed
I have tried to find a new owner for https://cheergram.com/ on and off this year.

Cheergram does printed Instagram products. Main product is Christmas cards. Have had good press and have good SEO ranking for "Instagram Christmas Cards".

Backend is a Rails app on Digital Ocean. Payments via Stripe. Printing is done by a Denver-based pro lab and drop-shipped (US only). You could likely find a lower-cost printer if you're so inclined.

Gross sales since launching in Nov 2012: $4,461.55 (Traffic and sales spike between black friday and new years) https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqipziq13s6eqd7/cg-traffic.png?dl=...

The right person could probably add some products and marketing know-how and do pretty well with this. (Think cards for other occasions like wedding invites or print subscriptions).

If you're interested, drop me an email and I can walk you through the details.

nbschulze
http://www.startuputility.com

Gets around 1500 visitors a week. I haven't touched it since November. Hosted on Heroku, Play Framework, S3 to host the images.

Probably a cool use case for it if someone wanted to invest more time in it. I'm pretty busy working on other things I'm more interested in.

If interested, shoot me an email.

S4M
Your website is currently down.
nbschulze
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I don't think it's probably down (I was able to reach it), but probably timed out due to the limits of Heroku's free tier.
S4M
It's strange, I can view your website with Chrome but not Firefox, and with Chrome the pictures are not loading.
klbong
http://www.salemarked.com

Track/Save fashion items and get notified when items drop to the price you're willing to pay. It's been on auto-pilot for a couple of years now. If interested, shoot me an email.

seanccox
Your email address isn't in your profile. I'd be interested in discussing details with you.
brotchie
BroApp - Your Clever Relationship Wingman

http://broapp.net/

Fun side project that blew up with world-wide media attention last year. Intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2zr5EYbDk. On Jimmy Fallon tonight show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTf7g59LQ_Y.

Working on other projects and not really interested in building out more functionality / monetizing.

Looking to sell all source code (Android + iOS), domain, US trademark on BroApp, email lists, etc. Facebook newsfeed cost-per-install is ~$0.21 with a lookalike audience built off our install base.

cbeley
I would consider selling my side project/business - http://flextory.com . It's a web based data management system with a focus on features for handling inventory. I went pretty far with it and have some active customers to this day. It's just no longer what I soak time into. I've considered turning it into an open source project, but just haven't gotten around to it.

Running Flextory has been an amazing experience for me though. It's kind of my baby. It would be hard to part with, but I'd consider it.

tacone
I've been considering building a similar side-project for a while. Well done :)
seanccox
This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?
cbeley
Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead.

If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt comfortable with (or could justify the expense for). There's also the issue that Flextory is a bit hard to sell. People I have demoed directly to for their specific purpose have been easily sold and were able to justify the value. However, when I can't directly demo, I get a lot of comments about it being too expensive to justify it. Even people that were sold have iffyness on justifying the cost (despite things like netdoc, which Flextory pretty much outperforms, costing in the thousands range). I've considered lowering my prices, but if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring in new customers.

One reason I was considering open sourcing it (apart from a desire to give back to the comunity a bit), is that I could use that as a platform/advertising for selling the sass portion of it.

seanccox
My first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.
cunnuh
Hi - could be a fit with what we're doing at www.leonardo247.com. I'll put my email in my profile if you'd like to chat.
jurgenwerk
I'm totally up for selling http://sitestalker.net in case somebody could use it.
stevemart
please drop me an email at stevemaarten at g. I posted a couple of questions on your Flippa posting, but never got a response, and I'm very interested in your app.
vijayr
This should be a monthly thread, like the who is hiring threads. We should also have a monthly thread for passive income projects and side income projects that make revenue.
sideproject
http://sideprojectors.com

Hello (I run this site btw).

Been running SideProjectors for about 2 years now. Built to specifically help people sell & buy side projects. Recently did a re-design too. Would love to see your projects on there. :)

wmurphy
CrowdPlace - a social site built on Neo4j A different type of social site in that depending on the context (what channel you are in) the data input and output can be different. So a post is a little more contextual and structured. It also allows you to follow RSS feeds in just the same way you would follow people, creating a newsfeed integrated with the social feed.

URL: https://www.crowdplace.com/ Test account: login: testtest Pass: testtest123

foxpc
http://ampoll.com

My simple real-time polling website. Built on Node (fully rebuilt from PHP).

Currently gets around 1500-3000 visitors per week.

Got bored of developing and marketing it, looking for someone to take over.

etewiah
mmm, I actually quite like the site though I can't think of a monetisation strategy for it.

How are you getting your traffic and what is the trajectory?

foxpc
Regarding monetisation - I've tried getting into Google AdSense but they would not like the content on the website. Tried a few other ad networks but they all looked like crooks and just decided on keeping the whole thing ad free for the time being :)

Most of the traffic that came in when I was working on it came from Reddit. Looks like, currently, the traffic also comes from mostly Reddit (over 40%), Twitter and Facebook (9-10% each).

Currently, the traffic does seem to have settled and is pretty low. But that's considering that I'm not putting any more work since I'm more interested in newer projects.

etewiah
Thanks for the extra info. I am working on something that is not a million miles away from your product (http://klavado.com)

Yes, mine is focused on places but the core idea of easily polling people without creating an account is similar. If I bought your site, it would be mainly as a way of gaining traffic for klavado. I haven't yet started working hard on getting traffic so I don't yet have a good idea how hard / easy that will be.

Perhaps after I get a better idea of how things go with klavado, I'll be in a better position to discuss something.

adam_h
https://flownote.io

Note-taking/sketching SaaS. I don't have the time/skills to market it properly right now.

eric_bullington
This is very well-done, with pleasing aesthetics. Did you experiment with a free tier? How many users do you have now, if you're open to sharing that information?