Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2017 where @duked convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
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HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 98 points
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http://founderpact.com
It's not making any revenue so any offer will be considered. It's a tool for helping inexperienced founders avoid common mistakes when starting a business with someone, both legally and in terms of making sure you're on the same page. Did it after getting very burned on a business venture because of this.
Got retweeted by some TechCrunch writer and also got to the frontpage (I think) of ProductHunt a while back. But I never got the time to get the product to where I wanted it to be (pay a $49 fee to get a good legally binding agreement based on the data you provided that you can just download, print and sign, and avoid problems and lawyer fees) nor market it properly (I also think it would be great to partner up with people who organize hackatons etc).
Built in Rails, hosted in DigitalOcean.
Email in profile
http://imgfave.com - YC company. 100k daily pageviews.
http://backerpass.com - Monthly funding platform for artists and creators. ~$200/month currently going to creators.
http://followfridayapp.com - Web, iOS, Android. Doesn't work currently because Instagram restricted their API. Could be rebranded into an app focused on selecting your own photos (something like 2016bestnine.com).
http://facebook.com/youtubesearchbot - Messenger bot with 25 daily active users. Yeah not a lot, but could be grown if you have another bot to cross-promote with.
Contact info in profile.
http://chatible.io - FB Messenger bot to chat with people anonymously. 400k+ users, processes anywhere between 500k to 5 million messages per day depending on the day. Completely organic growth and can be easily expanded to other platforms and potentially monetized. It was also accepted into Facebook's FbStart program.
http://rubeta.com - SMS Fundraising platform for small nonprofits. The product was completed recently, and I haven't begun marketing it yet. Easy monetization.
Both products can be easily expanded, but unfortunately I haven't found the time to do so. Contact in bio.
Designed, built and launched a mobile ICD-10 & ICD-9 iOS app for physicians, clinical staff and medical billers.
For those of you not familiar with ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) is the standard for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases for purposes of clinical documentation and billing.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icd-10-diagnoses-codes-icd-x/id863961123?mt=8
I'm going to repost from the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473):
StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com):
Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.