Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? (2016)
Last time around this was fairly popular. Lets have a 2016 version. 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 2016 where @hahla convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
CATEGORY Ask HN Roundtables →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 63 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 33 comments
http://webstories.org: A platform to write stories based on small sections.
You can put this on Google Translator to have an idea of what it is about: https://www.facebook.com/webstories.org/posts/835335799840573.
I started it the beginning of 2015 in Brazil. Since then I did not have any time to invest on it and I am now living in Australia.
The code is public on Github: https://github.com/FagnerMartinsBrack/WebStories.
Honestly I just want someone to create a platform like this so that I can publish my stories someday, there's nothing exactly like what I want =(
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/ - A drag and drop content calendar for WordPress. You can literally drag and drop posts to different dates on a calendar and they'll post automatically when the date comes round.
I built it last year, along with a premium version (which auto-suggests what you should write based on low competition kW opportunities) but ended up not getting around to releasing it. The free plugin is up on WordPress and has about 700 downloads.
I'm willing to sell the free + (unreleased) premium plugin for the right price.
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.
Moviestud.io (http://www.moviestud.io):
Production management for independent filmmakers. The blog has a lot of epic length blog posts that can use somebody who can spend some time promoting them.
I want to sale Woocommerce plugins for reasonable prices. On our eCommerce store you can find Magneo, Wordpress, Woocommerce, OpenCart extensions and plugins. On our site (FMEAddons.com) you can find more than 100 free and paid extensions for your online store. Sample link: https://www.fmeaddons.com/woocommerce-plugins-extensions/product-inquiry-form.html
https://www.writedown.co is a full blown Twitter clone with streaming, retweeting capabilities etc.
It is immutable and opinionated on that. You can embed a tweet in the BTC blockchain but was thinking of other blockchains too.
Didn't have time to market it I just made the effort of programming it in latest technologies (ES7, OrientDB, Ractive.js).