Ask HN: How much shall we sell our site for?
We have a site that pulls in next to no traffic. However, we've built up 18 months worth of excellent content, have 3000 people registered to the site who receive emails daily and we have a few customers who pay us money each month via our get your own template service (we sell a basic template of our site to users who can then have their own website, we host it for them).
The site is popular amongst the people who do visit it each day (less than 1000). We've been featured by Mashable, BBC and Techcrunch and have around about 500 Twitter users.
Problem is we've reached a point where we can't spend the time updating the site any longer. Someone has emailed us saying they're interested in buying the site and wondered how much we'd sell it for.
We've spent 18 months curating content and developing the site into what we consider a nice product. If someone spent some proper time on it, and focused on SEO, then we think it could do ok. Is a price of $1000-$5000 fair or is that way too much? We would like some money in return for our efforts these last 18 months but appreciate it will be a small amount.
Any advice you can give would be great! Thanks!