Ask HN: Should I Sell My Company or Wait?

2 points by blazer ↗ HN
I hate almost every "top 10 xyz companies" top listing websites. All of them are just affiliate links, self promotions, dozens of banner ads.

You know which one is more corrupt now? Web Hosting Comparison. Go to google/bing you will get 99% of self promotion listing or affiliate listing websites.

Then, I decided to write an algorithm that compares prices & hosting specifications (cpu,space, memory, bandwidth, location). I even wrote a datacenter feature comparison too (IRC allowed hosting, adult allowed hosting, ipv6 available hosting & etc)

It is a 85% accurate algorithm (I know the indexer needs a little cleanup).

Everything went great, more than 600 web hosting companies registered an account with me (Including Site5 & many recognized companies). My algorithm/engine compares more than 6500 web hosting plans (dedicated, vps, shared, datacenters & a simple cloud list.

The problem is.,

I am on 5th page (Bing) I am in Google's sandbox for 6-8 months.

I am getting 80-100 visitors per day thats too low to be low.

I do have very clear plans to monetize from this service. But., My traffic generation plans are organic and that takes time to reflect my google analytics.

Should I keep doing organic way to increase the 100 to 200 visitors and go on or should I simply sell it?

Some hosting company would surly buy it and spend few thousands in adwords to get traffic and self promote themselves.

But., I want this to be really a decision making engine for web hosting buyers.

Suggest me something.

My Web Hosting Comparison Engine URL: http://ServerGrabber.com

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