Offer HN: Buy my file sharing site

by mcrittenden on 7/3/2013, 2:54 PM with 7 comments

http://fileslap.com

Fileslap is a file sharing site with built in file preview that's built on Django. Files are stored at S3 (currently costs about $25/month) and billing is handled by CheddarGetter. The site itself is on a basic shared host (Webfaction) and could be moved anywhere that supports Django.

I'm eager to sell due to me losing interest about a year ago and the fact that I never marketed it so it's not very well known. The site works well but has no paying customers and a small user base on the free plan (the site gets about 100 unique visits a day).

Reply here if you're interested or email me at mikecrittenden@gmail.com ...I'd be willing to consider just about any offer.

http://fileslap.com

  • by mcrittenden on 7/3/2013, 3:00 PM
  • by nickconfer on 7/3/2013, 4:39 PM

    Sell it on flippa. You'll get more interest and bids.

  • by shawabawa3 on 7/3/2013, 3:15 PM

    The site actually looks pretty good

    I'm a little tempted to buy it even though I have absolutely no time to do anything with it.

    Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to get it slightly profitable. I would just:

      1. Make a cheaper tier of around $1/month (maybe for 1GB files, 1TB max or something)

  2. Make the free tier better. 500mb files maybe

  3. Make the non-logged in files last forever
    Link rot is bad and makes you look bad. People using the free tier is free advertising. If the files last forever people are more likely to actually use it.

  • by machbio on 7/3/2013, 3:55 PM

    What would the asking rate be ?