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A comment on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by 1throwawayleft on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:37PM (#15486045)
I have a small set of user generated content sites (all PG, no NSFW junk) that I have run for the last eight years. Net income ranges between $30,000 and $45,000 monthly. 100% ad supported, buyer beware. Overhead (servers, cdn, et al) < $1000/month.

I'm currently a software engineer working for another company while keeping this network alive in my spare time. It could definitely be monetized and run better with 100% attention, but after eight years I just don't have the energy for all the needless pop culture and memeology that needs to flow.

I'm a one man team, and have automated a lot of the flow, but it started as a hobby project and would benefit from some attention to update the code bases.

If you're heavy in the meme scene feel free to ping me at [email protected]. The money will be good for a while longer and if you have the energy for it, you could extend it into perpetuity.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by larrik on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:41PM (#15486069)
I'm surprised you're bothering with a day job with that level of income.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by 1throwawayleft on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:46PM (#15486098)
Don't get me wrong, it's been a really fun thing to run. Rather than dedicate my life to something that started, more or less, by accident, I leveraged the opportunity to follow my actual CS passions which are quite a ways away from web dev.

At this point and age I'm more disconnected from the genre but it still demands my energy.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by sharemywin on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:24PM (#15486371)
you should think about a broker at that level.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by 1throwawayleft on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:44PM (#15486877)
Any broker recommendations?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by throwzabdaway on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:58AM (#15492013)
Not fe int'l. Worked great until something went wrong then they ghosted with their commission.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by lzy on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:42PM (#15488508)
You should try flippa.com. Plenty of eyeballs there searching for revenue generating sites to take over.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by srednalfden on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:03PM (#15487004)
What tech is behind the sites?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by dchuk on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:05PM (#15487017)
What types of sites? Forums?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by justhackedme on Monday October 16, 2017 @07:39PM (#15487539)
Buzzfeed or Memeology sites.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by liondancer on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:14PM (#15486297)
Can you teach me...
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