Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
A similar thread was posted a couple of years ago. If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, I'm sure the HN community would have an interest in hearing about them.
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make an offer.
Saas portfolio site for artists. Launched Jan 2013. 0 Marketing. 5k+ users (not sure where they are coming from, not sure if they are spam accounts) 29 customers, but only 8 are currently active/billed.
Site exists on an AWS ec2 instance, mysql DB on RDS. Application is split into three Laravel apps: 1) slidingboxes.com site 2) admin panel to manage portfolio 3) the portfolio itself
Stripe used for billing (via laravel Cashier package).
Ansible used to provision/deploy. Local dev via Vagrant. Source code managed via private Git repo on bitbucket.
An anonymous public blog where you pay per character with Bitcoin. Kind of like "The Million Dollar Homepage" for Bitcoin.
Got some press when I launched in 2014 (http://bitcoinmegaphone.com/press/), but haven't had time to build beyond the core product.
Bizah retro pixel camera android app written in java with a C++ image conversion routine
Well known API for adult content, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. 0 seconds down time since about a year. Profitable.
Is the content itself scraped?
I didn't get many leads to keywords like rimming and rimjob, or they were irrelevant. For actresses it's perfect.
Lets people organize secret santa gift exchanges via e-mail, including rules about who can buy for who.
At its peak in the holiday season, gets about 10k uniques per day. Close to a million people have used it since launch in 2011.
Very easily monetizable - just provide affiliate link gift recommendations. I had intentions of doing this so many times but just never followed through and got bored with the project.
How can I contact you ?
I have also scrapped all the websites from Quantcast but haven't scanned it yet.
The website is build using PHP including the crawler which works for the new websites not in the list.
For scanning multiple websites, the crawler is in Python which uses multiprocessing.
A startup brand store with curated inventory of premium project and startup domains. Domains can be developed or sold as is.
Needs a little polish before launching, don't really have the time.
Instant revenue stream with a bit of marketing.
I made this last year, but failed to build on the initial audience... There's no revenue, so any offer will be considered.
The site was launched in August 2015 and got 79,000 pageviews in its first month. It also got some media attention which has given the site quite good search engine ranking: it is a top-3 Google result for most of the relevant keywords and search phrases.
I can also throw in the domain BabyNameCheck.com. There's no site there currently, but you could easily reuse the word check back-end from WordSafety... Just make a new baby-themed design and it could be a site that any parent would want to check out when trying to decide a name.
(Edit: Please don't post word suggestions in comments - there's a form for that on the site :))
totto is different in written form, but phonetically it's the same
The BabyNameCheck could also link to name popularity data to find names that aren't too common but also not too rare. Monetize with Amazon links to baby products.
https://www.lexical.io
Take a screenshot of a web site every day, optionally have it emailed directly to you as an attachment.
https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk
http://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/
Physical security assessment tool based on NIST and ISO standards.
Needs more work. I have some ideas if you want to discuss.
Boutique consultancy providing professional code reviews. Could be run by a coder who likes to do reviews and writes well or by a project manager who contracts the work out to experts with the appropriate skills. I have done projects both ways. I have some good reports to give to prospective clients and have found that customers who reach out are usually serious.
It has been completely ignored for many years. It used to get a good lead every month, but I haven’t checked the inbound email address in years. I joined a trading group in 2007, loved the work and quit doing side projects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285392
StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com):
Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.
Moviestud.io (http://www.moviestud.io):
Production management for independent filmmakers. The blog has a lot of epic length blog posts that can use somebody who can spend some time promoting them.
Lets you download content on the web. Backup social sites, reddit, etc... 100s of subscribers. Getting ready to shift to a credits based system. 1 url per 1 credit.
Profitable and well received.
http://pagecull.com/ - Simple API to extract content from articles.
http://stilt.im/ - Provide Twitter support from Slack. Get mentions and DMs, send replies, view users and engage directly on Slack.
Buzz me on hello@thegoodhands.co for a chat
Includes a backend for updating the listings. Was picked up by life hacker
Long running project. Team Management. Profitable with 100s of customers. 5 other sister sites, https://snation.com/, https://oarnation.com/, https://bullockingnation.com/, https://swimdecknation.com/, https://thatgreek.com/
Estimates fake Twitter followers for any account. Helps users find and block fake followers (coming soon). >100k visitors per month (45% returning). >1M users audited and over 500k users signed-up. Some revenue ($12k/year).
Started in 2007, profitable every year since.
Web-based form and application creation software offered both as a stand-alone purchase or fully operational cloud subscription. Currently outputs as PHP or C#, can be extended to just about any other language/platform.
Very loyal users, often generating excellent leads for software consulting projects.
Currently finishing up code for several partnerships including offline forms, workflow integration, and several others. The hope is these partnerships could bring huge wins in existing markets.
Want to sell for a simple reason: every year I tell myself I'll start marketing properly, and every year I ignore that and write code instead.
It's time to place this project in the hands of someone or some organization that can grow it into the powerhouse it can be.
If interested let's chat!
The platform is licenced under the Attribution Assurance Licence so all installs are required to include the "Powered By Attendize" link.
Money is made by selling white-label licences.
https://www.attendize.com
https://github.com/attendize/attendize