Selling a Working Web 2.0 Website - Where to Sell?
Where is the best place to sell a fully-functional, web 2.0 website? eBay seems like it won't attract the right audience and I really cannot tell the difference between the myriad of SitePoint-like sites. What has worked well in the past?
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We sold kiko.com on ebay for $250k.
If you can drum up enough coverage, it works quite well. The key is getting coverage - the more people know it's up for sale, the more people will bid.
If you can drum up enough coverage, it works quite well. The key is getting coverage - the more people know it's up for sale, the more people will bid.
A business isn't a digitally downloaded good.
Edit: just to clarify they are referring to things like "eBook teaching you how to make $1,000,000 a day by doing nothing!" type sales
Edit: just to clarify they are referring to things like "eBook teaching you how to make $1,000,000 a day by doing nothing!" type sales
Kiko didn't sell the business (right?) They just sold the product. So I'm not convinced.
From what I understand they sold the domain and software which was the business.
That said eBay is specifically referring to the type of digital good that can be duplicated endlessly. A website is a single thing. You can run the software that runs it on another domain but you are not duplicating the site itself. Which is why I don't believe it would run afoul of this rule.
That said eBay is specifically referring to the type of digital good that can be duplicated endlessly. A website is a single thing. You can run the software that runs it on another domain but you are not duplicating the site itself. Which is why I don't believe it would run afoul of this rule.
Selling a website and domain... it is hard to get a good valuation out of it. It is a lot like a hot rod where a person has put in thousands of hours but when they want to sell there car no one will give them enough to justify all of those hours.
Try this site http://www.codango.com/, you can list it for license there. This way you can license it over and over again I believe you will make more this way then a one time sale. If you get a good base of people who have licensed it, you can create upgrades for another thing to sell.
Try this site http://www.codango.com/, you can list it for license there. This way you can license it over and over again I believe you will make more this way then a one time sale. If you get a good base of people who have licensed it, you can create upgrades for another thing to sell.
www.sitepoint.com
forums.digitalpoint.com
Those are two of the biggest out there for selling developed sites.
forums.digitalpoint.com
Those are two of the biggest out there for selling developed sites.
Thanks for chiming in everyone. Hacker News continues to impress me - the community feedback is superb.
It is not beRecruited.com (http://www.berecruited.com) - which is doing quite well!!
It's a side project that I worked on called PopChatter (http://www.popchatter.com) - which was more of an experiment in Ruby on Rails than anything else. I simply don't have enough time these days to grow it and innovate (just not enough time in the day!).
It is not beRecruited.com (http://www.berecruited.com) - which is doing quite well!!
It's a side project that I worked on called PopChatter (http://www.popchatter.com) - which was more of an experiment in Ruby on Rails than anything else. I simply don't have enough time these days to grow it and innovate (just not enough time in the day!).
Why do you want to sell it?
Given the audience here on HN, it would make sense to include the link in your question. This would be the community in which to gain awareness.
if its Berecruited.com - i would get TC to blog about it or mashable and drum up some interest. That site has had a lot of coverage,
"Would get TC to blog about it"
Good luck with that.
Good luck with that.
kiko was sold on ebay for around $250k