Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Post them here!
I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not have found the side project?
However, being a frontend developer that loves coding, I feel like I wasted a great opportunity of building a brand around it. The whole map was an attention grabber with the potential of turning it into multiple products for home, kids and even teenagers.
To the day I still receive a lot of requests to talk about it, people keep buying it around the world and is currently being exhibited in a museum in Beijing.
I would love to sell this to a great Marketing team / Visionary that can build a multi-million brand with it.
You can see the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960956629/the-world-me...
(Update: Yes all the IP belong to us because it's a modified version of the original and because we draw the whole thing from scratch.)
Also I thought it was cool until I realised it doesn't even remotely have every station in the world, not even close. 214 cities? That's fuck all.
The internet amazes me.
As someone who enjoys business/marketing/operations side projects the same way a dev loves a side project to code on, I’d love the chance to help anyone here out in that area (email in profile).
Edit: (other than the logo and name, the homepage is SFW)
FYI, the homepage is SFW.
This was a goofy idea that I launched 2 years ago to test out Amazon SES and Sendy along with some content marketing skills I was wanting to put to use.
At the moment I spend ~10 minutes each morning making the email. When I do a shirt, I wind up spending ~ 20 hours sending out ones I've sold.
It's got ~10k subscribers who are all loyal fans (60% open rate on emails). I'm selling about 100 shirts everytime I post one for sale. I think there's tons of opportunity that I am not realizing as I've lost interest.
Happy to answer any other questions.
I have tons of ideas on how to monetize this, but am not really interested in being the face of it.
Someone to organize a street team that could engage 18-34's via wet tshirt bar meet ups or the like would be great. Or a writing partner as I've seen lots of growth when regular content is being generated.
I'm currently a software engineer working for another company while keeping this network alive in my spare time. It could definitely be monetized and run better with 100% attention, but after eight years I just don't have the energy for all the needless pop culture and memeology that needs to flow.
I'm a one man team, and have automated a lot of the flow, but it started as a hobby project and would benefit from some attention to update the code bases.
If you're heavy in the meme scene feel free to ping me at 1throwawayleft@gmail.com. The money will be good for a while longer and if you have the energy for it, you could extend it into perpetuity.
At this point and age I'm more disconnected from the genre but it still demands my energy.
EDIT: Fixed the URL
I'm assuming it is a cordova, lob, plaid integration?
Do you do the printing yourself or use a SASS to do it?
e signature site built using WordPress. Uses stripe for payments. Built using mostly plugins. Tried to minimize customization for ease of maintenance.
But the problem I always have with selling side projects is that they are worth a lot more to me in emotional value than they are actually worth monetarily. I've put a lot of heart and soul into StatusGator, not to mention a lot of time, and selling it for what it's worth based on monthly revenue ($1k/month) wouldn't nearly cover that emotional value. And so I hang on to it.
I wanted some merch for Playerunknowns Battleground and I couldn't find anything decent, so I made them myself.
SaaS that lets small businesses accept and display testimonials on their website, as an alternative to relying on Yelp.
No traffic/income, just a project I put way too much personal time into :)
Ranks well for "font generator" a fairly high traffic query. Almost zero cost but unfortunately does not make money right now either. eric@mixfont.com
An platform for hosting cryptocurrency merchants.