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I haven't found the Flippa community to be overly drawn to custom tech (i.e. not wordpress, etc.) unless there is already a large audience for the site. I think the HN crowd needs a Flippa equivalent for abandoned projects.

I am happy to donate the domain startuptrader.com to the effort :)

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http://www.ex-prj.com is my side-project for listing projects that you're not going to love. I think our idea is good, but in case it won't become to what we expected and be abandoned in the future, this time I start without coding. I use tumblr since it's almost zero-cost. But so far it's not going well. I am sure I had problem that OP has had. But seems sometimes people like to build a platform but few people want to try a new platform.

I agree, and I'm not sure how well it will go on Flippa. I think you have a point! Hopefully someone will build something.

If you really want to sell, you need to improve your Flippa auction. Set your starting bid to $1. Set your reserve price to something realistic; in the low $100's. I know the site was your baby and you put a lot of effort into it, but buyers are mainly concerned with if the site is currently making money or if it has a high ranking and gets a ton of traffic. Your site is a PR-2 and has no income, so that's a factor. Reduce the auction time-length to 5 or 7 days. You'll get most bids in the final 24 hours. That's how you move a site. :)

Ha, sounds like ebay.

I agree that Flippa buyers are mostly concerned with sites that are making a profit, and I'm not sure blaster.fm is a good fit for its market. Having said that, if it's only worth a couple hundred dollars, I'd rather just not sell it.

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