I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not have found the side project?
I created a Kickstarter that made $104,000 . It's a map of all subway maps in the world. The project did really well and attracted the attention of ~25 Media Outlets including Wired Magazine, Gizmodo, FastCompany, Tech Insider, Travel & Leisure, Slate, Curbed, Cool Hunting, and lot more.
However, being a frontend developer that loves coding, I feel like I wasted a great opportunity of building a brand around it. The whole map was an attention grabber with the potential of turning it into multiple products for home, kids and even teenagers.
To the day I still receive a lot of requests to talk about it, people keep buying it around the world and is currently being exhibited in a museum in Beijing.
I would love to sell this to a great Marketing team / Visionary that can build a multi-million brand with it.
I don't know how you got 100k to waste. That project seems like a toy hobby more than anything. I guess people don't really value their money these days. I've seen worse kickstarters.
Also I thought it was cool until I realised it doesn't even remotely have every station in the world, not even close. 214 cities? That's fuck all.
There seems to be a trend here where people don’t want to sell their side project, but also don’t want to stray too far away from “fun side project I can hack on” into the world of business/marketing/operations.
As someone who enjoys business/marketing/operations side projects the same way a dev loves a side project to code on, I’d love the chance to help anyone here out in that area (email in profile).
I guess I can understand why I'm being downvoted, but I'll share more info.
FYI, the homepage is SFW.
This was a goofy idea that I launched 2 years ago to test out Amazon SES and Sendy along with some content marketing skills I was wanting to put to use.
At the moment I spend ~10 minutes each morning making the email. When I do a shirt, I wind up spending ~ 20 hours sending out ones I've sold.
It's got ~10k subscribers who are all loyal fans (60% open rate on emails). I'm selling about 100 shirts everytime I post one for sale. I think there's tons of opportunity that I am not realizing as I've lost interest.
I'd also be happy to work with someone else on this. I'm a software engineer that would love to have a project to hack on that had revenue.
I have tons of ideas on how to monetize this, but am not really interested in being the face of it.
Someone to organize a street team that could engage 18-34's via wet tshirt bar meet ups or the like would be great. Or a writing partner as I've seen lots of growth when regular content is being generated.
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 1throwawayleft@gmail.com. The money will be good for a while longer and if you have the energy for it, you could extend it into perpetuity.
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.
I developed a web app (with daily email updates to managers) to help small, remote businesses handle various operational things such as time off, expense reports, etc.
I was working on a program to calculate minimised Australian capital gains tax return for buying and selling shares. The core part is written as a set of custom PostgreSQL views and window functions. It is hosted by Django. I’ve built a minimal UI for it. Accountants and investors appreciate the tool, but I don’t have the time and money to take it further. I had estimated potential market in Australia from $100k to $1m revenue per year - not enough to start a startup. If interested in buying source code let me know. It supports stock splits and code changes
https://www.menutabapp.com/
More than 25,000 restaurants on board, more than 500,000 food pictures uploaded, more than 14,000 Likes. One of the biggest menu apps on Facebook. Freemium, it generated 1.5k - 2k a month - then Facebook's payment api changed and I didn't have the time to fix it. It's free to use now.
I have a few revenue-generating side projects, most notably StatusGator[1] which monitors status pages.
But the problem I always have with selling side projects is that they are worth a lot more to me in emotional value than they are actually worth monetarily. I've put a lot of heart and soul into StatusGator, not to mention a lot of time, and selling it for what it's worth based on monthly revenue ($1k/month) wouldn't nearly cover that emotional value. And so I hang on to it.
CompanyCarpool Carooling app for companies and organizations: http://www.companycarpool.com/
I keep on receiving interest from big companies, but don't manage to convert it into a sell. Not sure I want to sell it, but would be interested in some help and potential partners. The algorithm that finds compatible rides along the whole route is quite advanced (BlaBlaCar does not have it)
I've seen a lot of interest for Fulfilled by Amazon e-commerce businesses on Flippa.com last few months. If you're making $1K or more per month in revenue, lots of buyers.
I have a site with 2k recurring revenue(16 percent profit margins) but it requires support and marketing time(5-10 hours per week). What kind of multiple is normal for something like this?
Seems the industry trend right now is 32x monthly profit for a decent stable site. Could be significantly less, or slightly more. Shoot me an email and I can send you a ballpark offer.
Thanks! A shame the site didn't help you, but I am not sure I agree that the good ones need to be found themselves and don't advertise. In my experience it was opposite, the better ones were more likely to understand the importance of marketing. I think I have most of the better goshiwons in Seoul on the site, I can only think of 1 or maybe 2 goshiwons that considered themselves too good to need to advertise.
I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not have found the side project?