Ask HN: How to Sell a Website
by legrisch on Hacker News.
Back in 2018 I started a Website together with two friends. It’s a platform for people to create desktop wallpapers – I will not share the URL here. It’s based on a feature that was introduced in a major OS back then and I think we still are the only online tool to make use of that feature. The platform is rather successful in terms of users/wallpapers/clicks but last year we needed to implement ads – a step which we tried to prevent from the beginning. It was necessary as the expenses went up quite a lot.
We are now living in different cities (different countries even), the website needs a constantly running mac server (which fails often, very often) and we are all pretty busy with other projects. We agreed to try to sell it and we asked ourselves how selling something like a website would go about? Where would you find possible buyers? What data is important to share? Do we share our code for review?