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Re:How much is News.YC worth? by flyhighplato on Monday August 20, 2007 @12:32AM (#44229)
It would probably be worth more as a web application that allowed you to pretty much run your own reddit or news.ycombinator than as a "hacker news" site. A larger corporation might buy it for the actual software, not the audience.
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Re:How much is News.YC worth? by SwellJoe on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:38AM (#44243)
The software is trivial, or close to it. Sure, there are a few smart/hard bits, but any competent developer could resolve them with a month or less of development time.

Building a community is much harder than building a simple web application like this one. And not that by saying this, I'm not trivializing News.YC, I'm just saying you're placing value in the wrong place.

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Re:How much is News.YC worth? by alex_c on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:56AM (#44247)
Agreed, but you can only sell a community once, you can sell the software many times.
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