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Tell HN: In case you're interested, I'm selling my webapp wrttn.in

flippa.com

40 pointsjmonegro20 comments

I'm using it mainly to fund ongoing projects, as I, the broke college student, have run out of cash. The last bit of money I had to my name was spent on the flippa listing.

What framework did you use to create this site?

From the Flippa description: "The app is built on the simple ruby web framework Sinatra and runs on Heroku."

sold. the other six 'online notepad' options are terrible. this should be #1. the only thing i'm going to change is stick an ad for one of my sites (inboxSEO) on it. also, i'm a sucker for helping out starving college students.

Lucky. I was verifying my account by phone when you bought it out from under me.

I was totally looking forward to playing with that bundle of code.

Just saw that. Thanks!

At $350, it's a bargain too. Win-win.

TIL: there is a website for buying and selling websites.

The problem is that it mixes in content sites with tech apps. I'd be quite interested in buying small but interesting apps, but as the moment I have to wade through a tonne of content sites so it's not worth my while.

I know, I've been thinking about setting up a marketplace just for webapps because of this reason.

That sounds like a neat idea. I wonder if you are interested in teaming up to implement something like this.

me too .

Flippa without the crud. Would use.

Build it. I'm already there.

Hear what you're saying. Flippa has a "webapps" tag for auctions that relate to sites like this. If sellers apply the tag, there should be significantly less wading (ie it will appear in https://flippa.com/tags/sitetype). Hope that helps.

Wasn't aware of http://embed.ly - thanks, looks useful!

Ha! you're welcome, I guess. They're a YC company I think.

Why was the auction so short? They usually drag on for a while on Flippa. I was disappointed to see it had sold ;-)

It got bought out within minutes of being posted. The price was incredibly low. Sure, I could build that app, but it would cost (in time) several times the buy-it-now price of $350 to get it to the same level of polish.

It doesn't hurt that the guy who built it is a somewhat known quantity around here.

I think the market for solid micro apps is strong, you just can't find them on Flippa and other site-selling sites. I'm definitely interested in buying these sorts of things, anyway.

Ah, I hadn't realized there was a BIN on it. Can't believe he set it so low :)

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