Ask HN: Small weekend projects, making some money and planning to flip?

[yogrish]

I want to gain some experience in owning and running a small website service/app/product. I am planning to buy any wesite which is making some money (even if it is less its OK), reasonable traffic and has low maintenance.

I looked at flippa, but it seems there is more noise and are over priced.

From this Thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771, I could see many hackers have done a great job and developed many webapps over time either for a learning exercise or for fun. I know some might be feeling to flip them for profit or to concentrate on other things clearing those small things.

So, is anyone out there planning to flip their weekend project which you think now is a overhead for you or from which you want to make some quick money (few hundred $$ ). Then shoot me a mail: techynirvana [at] gmail[.]com

[hristiank]

Well, I believe you have your "money making" idea in your description here. Just make your own project for listing/selling HackerNews weekend projects. Right now Flippa has become bloated with scammers and blogs for profit... There are very little actual projects on there worth investing in. So it would be great for someone to create a market place for quality projects.

Just my two cents.

[stfu → hristiank]

Absolutely agree with that statement.The quality of the projects on these sites is very much rubbish.

[bmelton → hristiank]

I'm curious -- how would you keep spammers out of the new service?

[hristiank → bmelton]

If the new service is centered around HackerNews members you can keep the service spam free(or at least close to it) by checking projects for sale against members profiles here on HackerNews. A few active moderators in the beginning can set the tone for the whole service. After all how many projects would be up for sale at any given time? It would be great if someone can set up a poll here to ask developers if they are interested in getting some pay for small/weekend projects they have.

[Flippa_com]

Hi. Can appreciate the breadth of listings on Flippa can seem difficult to navigate - it very much reflects the breadth of both buyers and sellers on the marketplace. However its worth trying out our recently enhanced search to uncover the sorts of projects you seem to be describing.

This is how it might look if you were just looking for apps that didn't harp on about "potential" but was at least 12 months old: https://flippa.com/buy/search?sort_col=relevance&sort_di...

You can use the facets to drill in further or otherwise hit the "Advanced" link beside REFINE to get really specific ...

Hope that helps.

[cheae → Flippa_com]

If I could give you a suggestion, as a user who is very much interested in a service like this (both seler/buyer) the filters are pretty much worthless to find a good project.

A mechanism is needed to weed out the listings that reports earnings/traffic which is practically impossible compared to their site age, design, content, functionality, rankings(comcast,alexa,compete)

[hristiank → Flippa_com]

Hi,

My comments were not intended to be an attack on your site/service but rather an observation. I tried playing around the site with the search options as you suggested and the results were better. The problem still persisted though. Even in the example link you provided, there are 3 apps out of 9 results returned.

[Flippa_com → hristiank]

Hi. Belated response but the sellers enter the descriptions - the result set can be further tweaked to address it. Otherwise try browsing via "app" tags on sitetype: https://flippa.com/buy/sitetype/application

[yogrish → Flippa_com]

Thank you. I will check with Advance option.

[markhall]

I built http://happy21stbirthday.com and received small income from advertisements/affiliate revenues. Basically it's a site catered to gifts/promotions/ideas about 21st birthdays (college kids especially) I haven't maintained it much lately as I should.

If anyone is interested in purchasing it

or

If anyone has suggestions on how to revamp it I would love to hear feedback.

[yogrish → markhall]

@markhall I am interested. can you send me the details about revenues, maintenance requirement and your expected price to techynirvana [at] gmail[.]com

[molsongolden]

I'd be interested in this as well. I don't want to hijack this post but I'd like to hear about small projects that might be up for sale.

[cheae]

How many times of monthly profit you are willing to pay for a site, that doesn't need any maintenance? But with only 'search traffic risk'(the possibility of search traffic drop/increase due to algorithm changes by search engines)

[yogrish → cheae]

it depends...if avg over a period is X, i am willing to pay atleast 7-10 times X. But i have a cap for the upper limit. If you have pls mail me the details. will discuss further.