Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by shash7 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:02AM (#27206151)

Usually, the price is for the email list, backlinks to the domain name, various social accounts with followers, etc. The price for the actual app is a small part of the equation.

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Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:15AM (#27206225)

They have ~2500 emails, no socials and seemingly only a few backlinks to startup listing websites.

That does not seem worth 10k to me. What do you think?

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Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by duiker101 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:38AM (#27207718)

if it's making $350/month, that's $12.6k for 3 years. I think a general rule of thumb for website valuations is 3 years of ARR so seems about right. That's assuming that the website will never grow and will never has any other possible income source.

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Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by sombremesa on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:05AM (#27208796)

Never grow? It will shrink. The buyer got robbed. Churn is one the numbers investors watch like a hawk in a SaaS, and I can’t imagine this service retaining more than 30% of their users over several months.

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Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by randymonday on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:30AM (#27206313)

My side-project only had ~500 email subscribers, no MRR, but pretty good domain authority because it marketed itself. And still it got acquired only after 3 months!

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Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:06AM (#27206543)

for how much?

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