ROUNDTABLES ★ 19 upvotes 2015

Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Shared by @drizzzler · Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019) · 7 community discussions

ORIGINAL RETROSPECTIVE

The Founder's Submission

Direct narrative and submission text authored by @drizzzler on Hacker News:

A similar thread was posted ~1 year ago by gillis and a year before by illdave. I think it's time for 2015s 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.

SYNTHESIS & DOSSIER

Retrospective Overview & Key Insights

Distilled analysis of the business dynamics, operational challenges, and strategic takeaways:

An open Ask HN community consultation from 2015 where @drizzzler 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.

AMA & FOLLOW-UPS

Founder's Discussion Replies (@drizzzler)

Direct clarifications and follow-up comments shared by the author during the live discussion:

OP @drizzzler Original Author

2015

Tripbright.com

Allows vacation rental hosts to recommend/sell travel activities to their guests. Commissions on sales are shared with the hosts.

For sale, or looking for a non-technical business/growth partner to work on it part-time with me.

PEER EVALUATIONS

Community Discussions & Critical Reviews

High-signal perspectives, counter-arguments, and peer founder insights debated on Hacker News (7 total discussions):

BR @brotchie Peer Contributor

2015 Thread ↗

BroApp - Your Clever Relationship Wingman

http://broapp.net/

Fun side project that blew up with world-wide media attention last year. Intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2zr5EYbDk. On Jimmy Fallon tonight show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTf7g59LQ_Y.

Working on other projects and not really interested in building out more functionality / monetizing.

Looking to sell all source code (Android + iOS), domain, US trademark on BroApp, email lists, etc. Facebook newsfeed cost-per-install is ~$0.21 with a lookalike audience built off our install base.

LU @LukeFitzpatrick Peer Contributor

2015 Thread ↗

The product: - A search engine to compete with Amazon, app based. Status - needs about 10 programmers to finish it, comes with a pitch deck. Also, made an app game to promote it's launch, the app features some medium-well known writers & reporters. The app game is done, but not launched. I never launched it as the time mechanism in the game play needs to be improved.

- I'm also looking for help with programming, only equity. Have programmers already making it; however, their is a lot to do, marketing & partners = pretty solid. Platform based, semi-social network that benefits startups.

Anyone is welcome to email about this or just say 'hi' :) at lukejamesfitzpatrick@gmail.com

FA @fananta Peer Contributor

2015 Thread ↗

Zenlist (http://zenlist.co)

A simple to-do list

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HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)

COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 19 points

TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 7 comments

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