Ask HN: Small weekend projects, making some money and planning to flip?

by yogrish on 9/27/2011, 11:36 AM with 14 comments

I want to gain some experience in owning and running a small website service/app/product. I am planning to buy any wesite which is making some money (even if it is less its OK), reasonable traffic and has low maintenance.

I looked at flippa, but it seems there is more noise and are over priced.

From this Thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771, I could see many hackers have done a great job and developed many webapps over time either for a learning exercise or for fun. I know some might be feeling to flip them for profit or to concentrate on other things clearing those small things.

So, is anyone out there planning to flip their weekend project which you think now is a overhead for you or from which you want to make some quick money (few hundred $$ ). Then shoot me a mail: techynirvana [at] gmail[.]com

  • by hristiank on 9/27/2011, 12:14 PM

    Well, I believe you have your "money making" idea in your description here. Just make your own project for listing/selling HackerNews weekend projects. Right now Flippa has become bloated with scammers and blogs for profit... There are very little actual projects on there worth investing in. So it would be great for someone to create a market place for quality projects.

    Just my two cents.

  • by Flippa_com on 9/27/2011, 11:46 PM

    Hi. Can appreciate the breadth of listings on Flippa can seem difficult to navigate - it very much reflects the breadth of both buyers and sellers on the marketplace. However its worth trying out our recently enhanced search to uncover the sorts of projects you seem to be describing.

    This is how it might look if you were just looking for apps that didn't harp on about "potential" but was at least 12 months old: https://flippa.com/buy/search?sort_col=relevance&sort_di...

    You can use the facets to drill in further or otherwise hit the "Advanced" link beside REFINE to get really specific ...

    Hope that helps.

  • by markhall on 9/28/2011, 10:32 PM

    I built http://happy21stbirthday.com and received small income from advertisements/affiliate revenues. Basically it's a site catered to gifts/promotions/ideas about 21st birthdays (college kids especially) I haven't maintained it much lately as I should.

    If anyone is interested in purchasing it

    or

    If anyone has suggestions on how to revamp it I would love to hear feedback.

  • by molsongolden on 9/27/2011, 2:58 PM

    I'd be interested in this as well. I don't want to hijack this post but I'd like to hear about small projects that might be up for sale.

  • by cheae on 9/29/2011, 3:52 PM

    How many times of monthly profit you are willing to pay for a site, that doesn't need any maintenance? But with only 'search traffic risk'(the possibility of search traffic drop/increase due to algorithm changes by search engines)