Hi HN. I recently launched Hoverboard.io, which helps you show off projects you've built. I'm thinking about what direction to take it in, and one possible idea would be to allow people to list side projects as potentially being open for sale (and then making it easy to find projects that are for sale).<p>I personally have a few older side projects that I'd be open to selling, but I was wondering if other people are in the same position. Are there already any places that do a good job of offering that service? Is this something that anyone would be interested in?
+1<p>My side project is <a href="http://drop.sc" rel="nofollow">http://drop.sc</a> - profitable and self-sustained.<p>I don't have the time to develop the site and I'm not really into Starcraft anymore. The site is very popular amongst the Starcraft 2 community.<p>An old version is available at <a href="https://github.com/alexhanh/drop.sc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexhanh/drop.sc</a><p>Interested? Shoot me an email at alexhanh@gmail.com.
I love the site. It would make a great simple personal landing page if you could you add third level domains (username.hoverboard.io) and let people CNAME their domain name to it. I recently paid $20 to flavors.me for their service that your site could also do, but yours seems more targeted to the startup/dev geek rather than the musician/graphics person.<p>I see there is a <a href="http://hoverboard.io/username/blog.atom" rel="nofollow">http://hoverboard.io/username/blog.atom</a> link available. Could you make a <a href="http://hoverboard.io/username/projects.atom" rel="nofollow">http://hoverboard.io/username/projects.atom</a> link as well that would just list the projects, description, and URL?<p>This would allow integration with various landing pages or IFTTT recipes and things like that.
I'd be interested in listing side projects for sale.<p>And, side note: I like the site. Wish I could more easily peek at other users based on tags or location - the search works but it's not quite friendly enough. A feed of recent blog posts would be great too. I would focus on these things - pretty basic expected functionality thats 90% of the way there - before adding in another feature. Also, as a matter of taste, I feel like almost everything (except the paragraph point-size) is about 10% too large, which these days is almost always related to a dashed-together "mobile-first" responsive build. Looks great all around though, nice work.
I'd def. be interested in the idea of selling side projects. I think Flippa is more and more become infested with fake SEO/web 1.0 marketing sites and its hard for a real site seller to sell.<p>I have acouple sideprojects that would put up for sale.<p>Both self-sustained, profitable. One is: Studygig, <a href="http://studygig.com" rel="nofollow">http://studygig.com</a><p>If you are interested, contact me.
I have two actually, one is a fully functioning designer t-shirt site with inventory, that still is up and produces revenue (1-200$/mo), and the other is a defunct android/iphone/web app, that is b2b (I didn't have to time to sell to business owners w/ a 9-5). Apptopia is one site fwiw, but I have never used it.
I really like the site. I remember checking it out from your original Show HN and being really impressed. It seems like from the comments there is a need for a better place to buy and sell, but it seems like it goes away from the elegant portfolio look and feel of hoverboard.
Good luck to your project. I wanted to verify similar ideas and built <a href="http://www.ex-prj.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ex-prj.com/</a>. Unfortunately the project itself will become to an ex-prj.
I've released my staff management software under the GPL - <a href="http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/" rel="nofollow">http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/</a> - so any and all work on it is welcome.