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JustHackIt – From Techcrunch to Up For Sale in Less Than 24 Hours
Yesterday Techcrunch Editor Erick Schonfeld wrote a review of a new service called JustHackIt. Schonfeld called JustHackIt, "a dating site for hackers". Basically it’s a classifieds board for hackers and developers to easily post openings and have developers submit interest in those openings.
Less than 24 hours later, the JustHackIt service is now up for sale on Sitepoint. The current auction price is $20. In the 24 hours post launch the company reports the following stats:
- 18,258 pageviews
- 8,580 unique visitors
- Main traffic sources: TechCrunch, news.ycombinator.com, Reddit and Netvibes
The description notes the reason for the quick sale, "I launched JustHackIt.com last night. I’m really enjoying managing the site but didn’t expect the huge amount of traffic and don’t quite know how to manage a community site like this. I’m doing my best with it, but thought I’d post it on Sitepoint to see if someone is looking for this type of opportunity." They claim that they will have 600,000 pageviews this month – of course that doesn’t take into account that any blogger buzz dies off within a few days max.
Anyway, if you are interested in a cheap dat(ing) site for hackers and developers, JustHackIt is the one for you. And upon purchase you can tell VCs and friends, "I was on Techcrunch". Here’s their pageviews chart – note that this is by the hour not by the day, week, month or year.
I think the site can be great fun. Just imagine how you could make some money with. Or maybe just as an add-on to SourceForge or Google Code Hosting.
This is the lamest thing anyone on Hacker News has ever pulled.
Thanks, even more traffic now! :)
Seriously, the reason why I put this sale up so quickly is that I want it to succeed and find someone who is going to make that happen. I’ve got so much going on right now I’m not sure I can do that—#1 being I have to help my sister move into college in Florida, which means I’m gone from tonight to Wednesday.
Also, I wanted to try out SitePoint. Never sold a site before. And if someone is going to take over, I thought it would be better to do so while the blog traffic is still wicked high.
$20-$500 is not a lot. I was hoping to find someone who’s serious to take it over. If I didn’t find that person, I was afraid it would die a slow death unless I switched my focus to it.
Thanks for the comments though. I know it looks like I’m trying to quickly flip it. You are totally right to call me on that.
Auction ended. Time to find some co-founders.
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Why the hell do you start something and get TechCrunch on the story if you don’t have the time to follow through? That’s the sorriest, most pitiful thing you can do if you care about the web. I’ll give you $10 for the property and take the time to build it out. You on the other hand are just grubbing for attention. If you would have built the thing and not shopped it to TC, I wouldn’t care. I start and don’t finish projects all the time. The fact that you did, and I’m certain you did because TC would otherwise not know about it, means you knew what you were getting into and you gamed the system and created noise. I’ve got no respect for such thing.
That said, this is pretty funny.
Aaron,
Fair question, but there’s a simple explanation: because when I build something, I generally don’t think too hard about the 1% chance that the site takes off in the first few hours. This has *never* happened to me, and I’ve been building sites for 10 years.
I’m certainly not trying to game the web or create noise. I am very, very happy to see that a number of people have already connected at JustHackIt. That’s a great thing.
As far as building something for “grubbing attention”, that’s exactly what I want for JustHackIt–attention. It’s a site that actually fills a need, and I am happy people are finding it useful.
Now I have a unique problem on my hands: let JustHackIt be for a week and when I get back see if it’s still okay, or turn it over to someone or a group who can keep it improving and alive. It’s not an easy decision to decide which strategy is best.
-Breck