Hacker News Reader

Comment by bemmu | Hacker News Reader

I tried to make a listing, but it kept saying to keep description under 280 characters, even though it was.

Anyway if someone wants to make me an offer for the domain and text content of Candy Japan (candyjapan.com), email me. Gets ~2000 clicks on Google per month, 7000 uniques. It's the oldest Japanese candy subscription box domain on the internet, but the service itself hasn't been running for 2 years.

View on HN

I'm really going to miss the behind-the-scenes year-end posts about Candy Japan! I've been reading them for a decade or so? I hope you'll keep blogging and sharing what you're up to, but even if not, thank you for all those fascinating glimpses into the finances and numbers behind a fun product.

can you send the description here please?

# Description

Japanese candy subscription box. Includes domain and right to use text content only. Specifically does not include any code, customer list, or anything else.

# Asking price.

$6942

# Why sell?

It's the oldest candy subscription box domain in the world! And there's old content with decent backlinks as well. In other words: Google likes it.

I used to run this subscription box, but shut it down after Covid made global shipping impossible. If it's extremely low effort for me, then I would be willing to sell the domain and site content to someone who wants to start a similar site, or to use as lead generation for a competing service.

I am selling this site, because I know it still has value.

Despite the service being down for 2 years, the site still gets ~2000 clicks on Google each month, and ~7000 unique visitors. From past experience, this would convert to a few (let's say 5) new paying subscribers each month with no marketing at all. With an LTV of ~$40, should have lead generation value of at around ~$2400/year.

But I won't set up your website for you. I'll just transfer the domain to you, and sign a poorly worded document telling that I allow you to keep using the site content.

You will not get the code. Because it's terrible, and I don't want you to punch me or have even a remote risk of having to set it up for you or maintain it.

You will get the rights to use the blog text content, but you'll have to copy paste them yourself from the website. Because they are in some bizarro combination of two different formats in a database I barely remember how to log in to.

Again, you only get: the domain name, and the right to use the blog content text. But no right to ask me time-consuming questions. After I have transferred the domain to you, I consider my work to be 100% done.

# Competition?

The Japanese candy subscription box scene is admittedly intensely (ridiculously?) competitive. See here for a full list: https://www.candyjapan.com/wow/japanese-candy-boxes

You can try posting now from your official email, it will work just fine :)

OK tried it. Still had to shorten the reason to 500 characters.

Candy Japan was a big deal on HN for a while. Hope you get a good price! You should consider posting to microacquire, if you haven’t already, I had a good experience posting my company there (I didn’t sell it ultimately but had some good conversations with real buyers). And maybe do a show HN to say you’re selling - I bet a lot of folks remember the service!

> # Asking price. > $6942

Lol, intentional I assume?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com