Congrats on shipping! This is a great idea. I know that a lot of peeps here on HN (myself included) have a bunch of side projects languishing in various stages of completion. Best to trim it down and focus on 1 or 2, and let go of the rest.
Is it possible to show the technology stack in the listings? I see you collect it in the Project submission form. Doing so would help prospective buyers / barters better identify projects that they would want to acquire, based on the technology stack that they are familiar with.
It's nice to sell off a project and move on to whatever really interests you.
Regarding the tech stack, it slipped my mind but I will be adding that to the listings so you can buy projects with code written in a language you're comfortable with.
I believe it stands for Marketing Funnel Automation. Basically sites that suck people in and point them to an affiliate link to earn a little bit. Could be wrong.
As joeriel pointed out, MFA stands for "Made For AdSense".
To elaborate just a bit, these are web sites whose sole purpose for existing is to display ads. Instead of the "traditional route" where site owners decide to show ads on their existing sites to generate a few bucks of revenue, somebody sat down and started coming up with a list of ideas or topics for web sites to create just to display ads. Think "we need some ads on the site" versus "we need some content to wrap around the ads".
If you've ever gotten a phone call from an unknown number and typed it into Google in an attempt to find out who was calling, well, you almost certainly found several examples of these sites right there on the first page of the results.
These sites are usually low-quality and light on the content -- which is very often just some existing data they've found (e.g., gathered from public datasets or scraped from somewhere else) and dumped into an SQL database in order to generate 100s or 1000s of "dynamic" pages. Many times they're based on some "long tail" search terms/keywords.
There are exceptions, of course, but I think you get the point. Personally, I hate these types of web sites; there's enough "shit" on the Internet already.
Great idea! As someone that will be checking in periodically for projects to buy (instead of listing my own), I have a small suggestion: if you could provide topics or categories to projects (or let submitters define them), I would _love_ to be able to subscribe to just some subset of projects. For example, I'm only really looking to adopt projects in a super niche space (helping writers write) and would be way more likely to buy one if I see it, which seems less likely if I get a blanket email of all projects submitted.
I think pricing a project could be pretty tough and taking a quick look at your site I didn't see any guides or advice on pricing, it might be worth offering some direction to potential sellers.
Well, this seems like it could be quite useful in future. Certainly like the concept of selling or trading side projects you don't want to run any more, and heck, given how heavily tied success is to marketing skill and what not, I think we may see quite a few successful startups formed by buying projects here.
I'll definitely keep looking to see what interesting stuff comes up here.
It takes marketing and sales to make a product successful unless you are very, very lucky. Many developers aren't particularly passionate about marketing, they are passionate about development.
If a business / idea / promotion / marketing type person is looking for a product, this would be the target demographic I would assume.
Does anything like this for open source projects exist? I'm interested in finding unfinished, abandoned open source projects in the technology of my choice that I can take over and steer in the direction that I want. And of course without changing the license.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 74.8 ms ] threadIs it possible to show the technology stack in the listings? I see you collect it in the Project submission form. Doing so would help prospective buyers / barters better identify projects that they would want to acquire, based on the technology stack that they are familiar with.
Regarding the tech stack, it slipped my mind but I will be adding that to the listings so you can buy projects with code written in a language you're comfortable with.
https://flippa.com/
It's probably a good idea to learn from what worked for them/what they iterated to as well
https://www.onlinewritingjobs.com/links/what-is-an-mfa-site-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site
EDIT: Added wikipedia link
To elaborate just a bit, these are web sites whose sole purpose for existing is to display ads. Instead of the "traditional route" where site owners decide to show ads on their existing sites to generate a few bucks of revenue, somebody sat down and started coming up with a list of ideas or topics for web sites to create just to display ads. Think "we need some ads on the site" versus "we need some content to wrap around the ads".
If you've ever gotten a phone call from an unknown number and typed it into Google in an attempt to find out who was calling, well, you almost certainly found several examples of these sites right there on the first page of the results.
These sites are usually low-quality and light on the content -- which is very often just some existing data they've found (e.g., gathered from public datasets or scraped from somewhere else) and dumped into an SQL database in order to generate 100s or 1000s of "dynamic" pages. Many times they're based on some "long tail" search terms/keywords.
There are exceptions, of course, but I think you get the point. Personally, I hate these types of web sites; there's enough "shit" on the Internet already.
Congrats on shipping.
Good luck!
1) https://www.youraudiotour.com/
2) https://www.tenantupdate.com/
3) https://fauxbuy.com/
4) https://geoquizbot.com/
5) https://getbetterluck.com/
6) https://codeinperson.com/
I'll definitely keep looking to see what interesting stuff comes up here.
What is Barter? Why is it not described on the site?
It would be useful to list the number of users each project has.
It would be useful if you (eventually) split the list by price.
I don't have any money but I'd be interested to look at the new offers up to 1000 usd others might limit their interest to things over 100 k.
I will probably forget to visit your site. You should have a box where one can get an email with new projects from X to Y usd.
And an rss feed or json api that can be configured similarly.
http://borderline.biz/rss/0-1000
http://borderline.biz/json/10000-100000 etc
Have endless auctions, take 1% deposits for bids, let the thing run until the developer accepts a bid.
Have a widget with the highest bid for the project for the developer to embed in his project, linked to bl.
Give each project its own page/permalink on the website.
Good luck
To me, "abandoned" spells "confirmed failure". Or "solutions in search of problems".
If a business / idea / promotion / marketing type person is looking for a product, this would be the target demographic I would assume.
https://www.sideprojectors.com