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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by Freeboots on Monday April 28, 2014 @11:11AM (#7660426)
Out of interest, how is briefmetrics doing? Its a good concept, and nice clean report structure
Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by shazow on Monday April 28, 2014 @12:36PM (#7661060)
Thanks!

The fundamental product I wanted to build is done, so it basically runs itself while I do business development and sales. Eventually I'll need to dive back into the code to add more features I have on the roadmap, but I work best when I "switch modes" for spans of several weeks at a time so it may be a while. :)

The current revenue is about $250/mo. I've been trying to focus more on agencies with many clients and offering them custom-branded whitelabel emails reports for their customers. Making some progress on that end.

At the same time, as you can tell, I kind of have a habit of doing other random projects on the side, so things take longer than they should. :)

Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by Freeboots on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @02:14AM (#7665285)
thats really cool. My first thought was that it could be useful for people like you with several side projects that they dont really spend a lot of time actively maintaining, to get 'at a glance' stats to see that things are ticking over. To that end, you could consider a multi domain plan, $18 for 3 domains or something.

I love projects like this, particularly because although the income seems modest, I frequently live in developing countries for long stretches, where $250/month trickling in pretty much pays for the necessities.

Re:Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? by shazow on Friday May 02, 2014 @12:49PM (#7686751)
You're absolutely right about the pricing. Right now it's still in the "throw a number down on the front page and see if it sticks" stage of pricing. I'm still banging my head against the wall to find a better pricing scheme, but it will likely be similar to what you mentioned.

Here, I'll write it down just so I can get it out of my head. :)

* Hobby: $4/mo (paid yearly), limited to 1 site and 1 recipient

* Startup: $10/mo, unlimited sites, unlimited recipients

[Custom Branding]

* Freelance: $35/mo, custom branding, 10 sites

* Studio: $85/mo, custom branding, 25 sites

* Agency: $150/mo, custom branding, 50 sites

It's a lot of plans but maybe the two-bucket separation would be manageable. Or maybe I need to do a more fluid $4-5/mo/custom-branded site plan, but pay-per-use plans typically doesn't perform as well for non-developers.