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Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

by skdjksjdksjdk on 7/29/17, 2:39 PM with 102 comments

• by 20years on 7/29/17, 5:32 PM

  Small ecommerce site selling fidget spinners. It's sold $4k worth of fidget spinners in the past 2 months.

  Hosting costs $10/mo Shipping & support take about 5 to 10 hours total per month.

  I started this with my 13 year old son over the summer as a way of teaching him how to launch a website, advertise it and sell products through the site.

  Now that school will be starting up again here soon, we will not have the time to put into it. I have a few other sites/SaaS products that take up most of my time and he is going to be busy with school so I am looking to offload the site.

  Email: bizdiscussions at gmail dot com

• by espitia on 7/29/17, 5:22 PM

  Sort of related:

  I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project.

  link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks

• by manuelflara on 7/29/17, 5:38 PM

  http://founderpact.com It's not making any revenue so any offer will be considered. It's a tool for helping inexperienced founders avoid common mistakes when starting a business with someone, both legally and in terms of making sure you're on the same page. Did it after getting very burned on a business venture because of this. Got retweeted by some TechCrunch writer and also got to the frontpage (I think) of ProductHunt a while back. But I never got the time to get the product to where I wanted it to be (pay a $49 fee to get a good legally binding agreement based on the data you provided that you can just download, print and sign, and avoid problems and lawyer fees) nor market it properly (I also think it would be great to partner up with people who organize hackatons etc). Built in Rails, hosted in DigitalOcean. Email in profile

• by africajam on 7/29/17, 6:20 PM

  I recently got offered $10,000 for my open source real estate website builder (PropertyWebBuilder) on condition I close down the project. Turned it down but still not entirely sure if it was the right decision.

• by ckuhl on 7/29/17, 3:46 PM

     Can we please make this a recurring question
  

  Wouldn't it be worth doing a trial period of manual posts first, to gauge the amount of interest?

• by nodesocket on 7/29/17, 3:53 PM

  Fielding serious offers for my startup http://commando.io. Looking for 3-4x ARR.

  Commando.io is a web based SSH platform for running commands on servers. The commands (recipes) are centrally stored and versioned and there is a complete execution history. There is an API, CLI, and iOS app for running commands on servers on the go as well.

  If interested see HN profile for my contact info.

• by 21throwaways on 7/29/17, 5:12 PM

  What do side-projects typically sell for?

  My own is 8 months old. It averages $3K/month in revenue with costs of $100/month. Mine is a plugin not SAAS. I've had 100 sales so far, currently around 5-10 sales/month. I offer 30-day no-questions-asked refunds, but no-one has requested one yet. I've never had a visa chargeback, either.

  My own probably requires at least 3 software updates/year to maintain the revenue level. E.g., a small feature added or a couple bugfixes. Customers always buy annual licenses, and annual maintenance extensions to the license are half price.

• by peacemaker on 7/29/17, 4:14 PM

  I have a wordpress plugins business that earns maybe a couple hundred a month without touching it at all. I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products were not as good. The only difference is I'm working so hard on other stuff this hasn't had the time it deserves. Someone with the time and motivation to add a couple of new features and actually advertize it a bit (I've never done any advertizing at all) would make a decent, passive income.

  I also own another business that makes about $1500 a month (50/50 adsense & product sales) but does require a few hours a week of effort. I've only just started improving this and expect it to hit $3k a month within 6 months. I'm not seriously considering selling unless I get a really good offer but you never know!

• by jmbmxer on 7/29/17, 4:32 PM

  My little Chrome extension https://unshorten.link has had a growing user base for several years now. Like a few others in this thread, my strengths don't necessarily lie in advertising or marketing. I'd be open to bringing on a partner who has experience monetizing and marketing projects like this or even selling outright to the right buyer.

• by throwaway171717 on 7/29/17, 5:01 PM

  I have a portfolio of Wordpress themes on Themeforest, it started as a side project and I still don't dedicate much time to it but it makes around $10,000-$12,000 per month in revenue. The only expenses are hosting (150$/m) and support person ($700/month).

• by penpapersw on 7/29/17, 3:56 PM

  We have made several iOS apps which have been very well reviewed and sell consistently, but we're not terribly good at marketing. We're open to an offer if someone wants to purchase them and market them to the right audiences.

  Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/nikki-degutis/id119686...

  Contact: email in profile

• by sklink on 7/30/17, 11:46 PM

  http://trybtg.com/ Currently has about 100 DAU, high engagement (avg. 10 sessions per week per user). Users tend to stick around and the feedback is all positive.

  The desktop software is the iteration that found fit with our users. You'd need Dota to try it, or you can watch the demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_plCQi6PE

  I have a set of paid features ready to launch, but I don't have resulting revenue numbers yet of course.

  Even after the paid feature release I don't believe I can give it a proper change without more resources, mainly man power.

  Not that I necessarily need to sell it. If someone were interested enough to partner up and fill the gaps I haven't been able to address I would be back on it. Guess I should be looking for a HN post that matches projects with people looking to join a project.

• by ceyhunkazel on 7/29/17, 5:47 PM

  http://www.jeviz.com which I used to make around $500/month from amazon affiliation with very few (around 30) daily users. Amazon has terminated my affiliation. I think it has more potentials and you can migrate to another domain with your associates tag and promote it. Its a readable Django web app.

• by impostervt on 7/29/17, 6:06 PM

  I wouldn't mind selling one of my side projects, Water Marquee - https://www.watermarquee.com. It lets users watermark their photos. I started it about 5 years ago when I was getting back into development. It brings in around $1,200/month, though that's been growing lately. A year ago it was more like $500/month. It's been going up in search result rankings, I assume because I've tried to be more active on the blog (though it's paid-for content). There are around 1,000 visitors/day.

  My email is my profile. The site is written in Node.js/angular 1.x. I haven't had to change the code in several months, so it's pretty much "done" as far as I'm concerned, and I'd rather spend my time on other projects.

• by desfan on 7/30/17, 7:19 PM

  Line: Android/iOS game.

  Has a big userbase on Android, but nearly as much on iOS. Made around 3k$/month for a couple of months a year ago, now it's close to nothing as I stopped developing it, don't really now why. The whole thing is made with LibGDX for Android, using the (now defunct) RoboVM for iOS.

  Link: http://2121.io/

  Email me at nuno @ domain in link above if interested

• by spking on 7/29/17, 5:13 PM

  SendCatch.com

  I recently picked up this nifty little app from the original developer (https://www.sendcatch.com/), and then immediately got swamped with my main product. It is not currently monetized.

  I use it to instantly move larger files between my laptops and phones. Node/Mongo. Costs $5/mo on DigitalOcean. Open to offers! Email in profile.

• by wilhempujar on 8/1/17, 2:06 PM

  https://pricemoji.com/ an GraphQL/Node.js API that turns product prices into emojis.

  No revenue, just a side project really. But considering the feedback I'm often getting, it seems to have great potential...

  Originally, my challenge was to find a way to turn abstract product prices into more familiar, visual representations of their worth. Imagine paying your Netflix subscription in Bananas for example :)

  A Financial Times journalist dubbed it a way to "take us back to a barter economy, where we price things in emoji beer rather than dollars".

  Been featured on Product Hunt at producthunt.com/posts/pricemoji as well.

  Would be curious to hear for your proposal for such an app? I was thinking $15K or something.

  Contact information in profile

• by glenscott1 on 7/29/17, 8:00 PM

  I built https://freelancedevleads.com/ with the aim of promoting it to developers looking for freelance work and also creating revenue by offering paid posts. Holds little interest for me right now, and I haven't touched it for months. Happy to listen to offers - email in profile.

• by bettertomorrow on 7/29/17, 3:55 PM

  Ive got http://www.pedalr.com - a marketplace for people who love bikes.

  It's been completely refactored, has a decent mailing list and list of followers. I'd be interested in selling it or linking up w the right cofounder w some energy to help me relaunch, test, learn, and grow the product.

  Contact me for a look behind the landing page.

• by TomTasche on 7/30/17, 6:07 PM

  Android app with big userbase and huge potential but stalling revenue due to lack of development: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.tomtasche.r...

• by quickpost on 7/29/17, 8:08 PM

  I've got a SaaS system that generates a small physical newsletter that I've been running for the past 3 years. Averaging consistent $600 / month profit w/ no marketing. I've always intended to grow it (and think $2k / mo profit would be easy to achieve), but haven't put in the marketing effort as I've been busy with other businesses. It takes about 1 day a month of work, but that could easily be outsourced.

  Open to selling for 1x to 2x ARR, since I've been neglecting it a bit. Email for more details.

• by gtheme_io on 7/30/17, 2:23 PM

  I have a side project GTheme.io[1] selling Ghost.org premium themes. 11 of the themes are designed by myself. Tonnes of growth potential as Ghost 1.0 just released.

  As my focus shifted, I plan sell it.

• by sportsdataguy on 7/30/17, 12:09 AM

  http://www.mysportsfeeds.com

  A sports data service for developers and small-medium sized businesses. Tonnes of growth potential.

• by IgorPartola on 7/29/17, 8:59 PM

  OT question: how much money can you make off doing something like Bootstrap or Wordpress themes? Is that a thing that is still a viable business?

• by litzer on 7/29/17, 5:33 PM

  https://github.com/alixander/Ceruleum

  I had built this with the intention to sell it on the app store but ended up not wanting to bother with marketing and signing up. But idk, maybe it can garner some buys as a paid developer tool app.

• by trevmckendrick on 7/29/17, 6:45 PM

  I sold my Bible app company a few years ago, and it was mostly a PITA (e.g. took 7 months for a relatively small deal)

  Now I acquire small SaaS businesses at CapitalAcademy.org and make it a point of making the process as painless as possible.

  If you have any interest in selling or just want to learn about the acquisition process feel free to say hi, trevor@capitalacademy.org

• by nl5874 on 7/29/17, 5:39 PM

  We are open for offers to both transfer.sh (file sharing with curl) and SlackArchive.io (archiving +700 teams, data will be of interest for machine learning and NLP startups.). Both are side projects that grew far too big. Mail me at remco@dutchcoders.io for more info.

• by sghiassy on 7/29/17, 6:10 PM

  I built 'h34t' - shows a realtime heatmap of where people are in the city (search iTunes Store for it).

  Snapchat just paid $300 million for the same functionality. They could've bought it from me for a lot less ;)

• by fiftyacorn on 7/31/17, 7:43 AM

  I built a site last year - www.gpsheatmap.com. The site lets you generate heatmaps from your gps routes for cycling or running

  I never got round to marketing it so Im open to offers

• by kfriede on 7/30/17, 4:40 PM

  https://fastandes.com

  It's a product search engine that ranks products from Reddit comments and posts.

  Any offers welcome!

• by pvsukale3 on 7/29/17, 4:28 PM

  hakrlog.com

  sample blog - pvsukale.hakrlog.com

  Markdown blogging for hackers. Everyone gets a unique subdomain and they can write and publish with a simple interface. A native nested comments section, No ads, No monthly charges. People can follow authors for weekly emails and RSS. It is in beta, no current users though. If anyone wants to support development / buy the project contact email :- pvsukale at gmail dot com .

  Developed using Rails. ( I am a last year CS student)

• by sanchayan on 7/31/17, 1:21 AM

  I would like to sell my app 1600 Pennsylvania for raising funds for politicians . It has chat + geolocation + poll features

• by superplussed on 7/29/17, 8:10 PM

  I have a domain: fooker.com. Brandable, awesome. Don't need it. Wanna sell it.

• by paxpelus on 7/30/17, 9:10 AM

  I have the domain 5vs5.com in case anyone is interested