[HN Gopher] Show HN: Buy My Side Project
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Show HN: Buy My Side Project
Author : raunometsa
Score : 144 points
Date : 2021-03-07 13:57 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (buymysideproject.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (buymysideproject.com)
| HatchedLake721 wrote:
| Submitted a product with 7 pictures, only 1 last picture was
| added to product :(
|
| Any way to edit?
|
| https://buymysideproject.com/startups/automationsio
| raunometsa wrote:
| Sent you an email with the edit link!
| HatchedLake721 wrote:
| Getting 500 when submitting a new project :'(
| raunometsa wrote:
| Thanks for letting me know! I checked my Laravel logs and I see
| a few errors similar to this:
|
| invalid input syntax for integer: "60,000"
|
| So I added filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT) around
| my INT fields (TTM and asking price).
|
| $startup->ttm = filter_var($r->ttm,
| FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
|
| $startup->price = filter_var($r->price,
| FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
|
| Should be ok now!
| dan1234 wrote:
| Why aren't you using Laravel's built in validation features?
| mikesabbagh wrote:
| Nice Job It would be interesting to see how many hits u got from
| hackernews and how many you converted
| throwaway23940 wrote:
| How does it compare to https://microacquire.com and
| https://indiemaker.co?
| judge2020 wrote:
| I thought this was going to be an NFT site at first.
| dplgk wrote:
| Check out flippa.com
| nannal wrote:
| Maybe do some basic sanitisation?
|
| https://buymysideproject.com/startups/scriptalert1script
| raunometsa wrote:
| Yep, makes sense. I think Laravel handles sanitisation nicely
| out of the box, but I made a mistake with the project's
| description:
|
| <p>{!! nl2br($startup->about)) !!}</p>
|
| Switched now to:
|
| <p>{{ $startup->about }}</p>
| lol768 wrote:
| Output encoding suitable for the destination format, not input
| sanitisation!
| emayljames wrote:
| Yeah, is like some site creators have learned nothing about the
| Google blacklist, having user content on your main site is
| risky. I could include ANY js file into their main page
| (insanity).
|
| edit: much lack of security -
| https://buymysideproject.com/startups/iframe-srchttpsbuymysi...
|
| edit 2: YIKES! don't click the authors bio on the main page,
| the site is already clickjacked. This is a fine example of why
| you take security seriously.
| jenkins6g wrote:
| Great solution, I've been thinking about how to sell my side-
| project the past couple weeks. POST request to
| 'https://buymysideproject.com/new' is throwing a 500 btw.
| raunometsa wrote:
| Thanks! Yes, sorry - I checked my logs and I think it's about
| putting commas, spaces, etc to INT fields.
|
| I did a quick filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT)
| around my numbers and I think it should be working ok now!
| the_gipsy wrote:
| If you leave it blank it also 500s.
| harel wrote:
| There is another use for this resource - a guide to all the
| chrome extensions up for sale, and therefore should be pre-
| emptively uninstalled. There is a lesson there, in the whole
| "Great Suspender" malware case.
| preommr wrote:
| Wait, are you selling this site on your site (listed at $10)?
|
| Because someone is:
| https://buymysideproject.com/startups/buymysideproject
| raunometsa wrote:
| Haha, no! :) I see someone here made a joke (removed this from
| the list).
| bdcravens wrote:
| Perhaps it would make sense to do domain verification?
| Otherwise I think it'll get quickly become super spammy.
| hysan wrote:
| I already see HN listed on there for $1k. I think it's
| reached that point already.
| ghiculescu wrote:
| This one looks like a bargain
| https://buymysideproject.com/startups/hacker-news
| nvr219 wrote:
| $750 and I'll throw in my own side project written in Erlang,
| take it or leave it.
| arm wrote:
| Selling Hacker News for only $1k? That's an absolute steal!
| pc86 wrote:
| I'm not so sure. Any attempt to monetize this site would blow
| up in your face.
| phonebucket wrote:
| Perhaps sell links to software job postings which start on
| the front page? HN readers are already used to this.
| spacepinball wrote:
| They been doing that for years already
| bitcurious wrote:
| This site is already heavily monetized. Basically every yc
| startup gets exposure to a broad tech audience. Shit ain't
| a charity.
| breakfastduck wrote:
| At least it's generally relevant to the audience. They
| also get more than exposure, they get feedback. Good deal
| for them I'd say!
| Axsuul wrote:
| Being able to manipulate the ranking algorithm to your own
| benefit is monetization.
| [deleted]
| codingdave wrote:
| If anyone is seriously looking to buy a project, they care how
| much revenue it currently generates. Even if that number is zero,
| and you are just buying the code, buyers need to know where
| things currently stand.
| davidgh wrote:
| And I would add some idea of usage. If the project has no
| revenue but some traffic / traction that is much different than
| code running on a development server.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Yeah, 30k for a side project is a lot of money if literally the
| only thing on the site is two screenshots.
|
| I'd even call it laughable.
| robinwassen wrote:
| The site is a listing site, it's not like you click a buy
| button and then you all of a sudden own a project.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Of course not, but I've seen similar concepts before. And
| they all list some information about the business
| (especially monthly income) that are very relevant.
| [deleted]
| galuggus wrote:
| Have you sold anything yet ?
| raunometsa wrote:
| I don't know to be honest. Potential buyers can directly email
| sellers, so I'm not involved in the conversations (if there are
| any).
|
| But I think I'll email sellers in a few days and ask! It's a
| very fresh project, I made it few days ago.
| iagovar wrote:
| I don't ask for everything to be dispayed in public, but there's
| too much information. One of the projects falls inside one of my
| market expertises, but they just copypasted their APP store
| pitch.
|
| IDK, it's not very appealing.
| raunometsa wrote:
| Hmm, what do you mean by there's too much information? Like the
| copy-pasted description is just too long?
| razorfen wrote:
| The public plaintext emails are not a good idea. Scrapers
| will gobble these up and spam those emails into oblivion. At
| least put them behind a captcha.
| iagovar wrote:
| I'm sorry, I wanted to say "too little information", not my
| primary language, got confused.
| raunometsa wrote:
| I read this quote from Andrew Wilkinson (co-founder of Tiny
| Capital):
|
| "There are all these cool products that are on Product Hunt.
| Every day you think "that's cool". But most of them fizzle."
|
| I know this from my own personal experience and I think this is
| also true for many other developers like me. We build fun little
| side projects, launch them on Product Hunt, but let them fizzle
| afterwards.
|
| "A lot of the time it's started by a developer and the developer
| doesn't understand how to market and grow something."
|
| And even when some of the developers do have the knowledge how to
| market and grow something, they're often not interested in it as
| much as creating something.
|
| ... read more from my blog about why I built this:
| https://saashacks.io/buy-my-side-project
|
| I hope you like it!
| hemantv wrote:
| The real question is how you can get good at marketing?
| [deleted]
| codethief wrote:
| s/how you can get/how do you find someone who's
|
| Personally, I've realized that I hate doing marketing and I
| enjoy creating things much more.
| krm01 wrote:
| This helps to get good at marketing if you're an engineer:
| https://phireworks.co/pro
| pc86 wrote:
| What is your affiliation with them?
| sokoloff wrote:
| Would you like to sell BuyMySideProject?
| rgoulter wrote:
| And did you have fun making it?
| raunometsa wrote:
| I did, thanks for asking!
| raunometsa wrote:
| Maybe!
| jdbiggs wrote:
| big fan but it crashed!
| raunometsa wrote:
| Thanks! Submitting a product? Sorry, should be fixed now.
| vessenes wrote:
| The most valuable thing you could do is add bidding and
| acceptance to the site. Obviously a lot more work, but if you're
| serious that's the way to make your own value and give value to
| sellers and buyers.
| anonymouse008 wrote:
| Agreed -- OP I'll help, email in bio
| lovetocode wrote:
| I love this! Keep it up!
| rayshan wrote:
| Is there a submission queue? I submitted my project Stock
| Inspector but it didn't show up immediately.
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