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 waleedka on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:12PM (#7656907)

Website Screenshots: http://www.bitpixels.com

Serves 40 million images a month. It can generate small thumbnails or large screenshots of full-length Web pages. It runs itself and I rarely touch it, but I don't have time to improve and monetize it.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by consta on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:39PM (#7657025)

Wow .. that is something I have been looking for quite some time. In the meantime I decided to make a custom solution, but yours seem to work way smoother.

- Do you cache images? If so, how long are they cached? - Are there any restrictions, beside adding the attribution link, for commercial usage?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by waleedka on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:42PM (#7657045)

Thank you. I cache images on App Engine. I have a simple API to force cache eviction (email me if you need it). There are no restrictions other than the attribution link.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by TomGullen on Sunday April 27, 2014 @08:23PM (#7657588)

40m images a month as a free service? How much is that costing you to keep up?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by gotrythis on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:33PM (#7657007)

If you don't sell it, please open source this. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by chaseideas on Sunday April 27, 2014 @09:05PM (#7657700)

Please email me traffic details and more info. Would be very interested in taking over, or working with you, on this project to grow it to that next level.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by ejb99 on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:25PM (#7656966)

Do you make anything form it now? What are you hoping to get for it? - and what stack are you using?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by waleedka on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:40PM (#7657031)

It's two parts: An App Engine/Python for the UI and user registration, and a Linux server for image capturing (Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, ...etc.). At first we used popular libraries like Phantomjs, but eventually had to write our own to scale better.

I'm experimenting right now with moving the image capturing code to an App Engine managed VM to simplify things and make it scale easier.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by JustARandomGuy on Sunday April 27, 2014 @07:13PM (#7657388)

Which library are you using for image capture? Been using webkit2png ( https://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png/ ) for a personal project, but I'm interested to hear your experiences.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by manishrc on Monday April 28, 2014 @02:53AM (#7658572)

Could you mention why you stopped using PhantomJS? Also, how are you supporting flash?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by tokenizerrr on Sunday April 27, 2014 @07:08PM (#7657374)

Could you please elaborate on what your own implementation turned out to be?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by Fogest on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:19PM (#7656936)

How do you make money from it right now?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by waleedka on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:35PM (#7657013)

I don't yet. I needed a service like this a while ago and the existing ones were too expensive for my level of traffic, so I built one and then decided to open it up to others as well. That was years ago and it grew over time. I never got around to building a payment system for it. It was always something I wanted to do but never had enough free time to do it.

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