I’m a missionary and very busy with that life, no longer able to upkeep a gaming site I was working on. So I wanted to sell it. I wanted to get some advice though on the price range I should be looking to sell it for.
It currently doesn’t make money, but a lot of potential, the gameplay is the best of it’s field. There is an admin group on the site with a panel but only the option to send news.
All in all the site is a fixer-uper, but the gameplay is solid and working. People are joining games and playing out games daily with a scoreboard and forums. It’s been up for about 6 months with about 200+ active members in the past month playing games. 92 active games at this time with 15 games waiting for players.
I invest $2/day on google ads which gets me about 10-20 new members a day. It’s a turn based game giving 24hrs to take a turn which usually turns away those new members, however part of the fixing up is finishing the 5 min turn games feature I was adding.
Anyone with time mind checking it out and giving me some specific tips for selling such a site.
Note: it has very similar gameplay to hasbro’s risk. Looking at competing sites there shouldn’t be a copyright problem, I’ve emailed hasbro before I started the project and didn’t get a reply. The world map might need to be changed in the future, just changing the territory names. Shouldn’t be much of a problem.
It currently doesn’t make money, but a lot of potential
Funny how every owner of a non-earner site is convinced his site has a lot of “potential”.
If that “potential” can be easily realised you’d have done it already.
If it can only be done by someone with a certain skill set, and if he needs to devote a chunk of time, on what grounds are you convinced that the money so generated will leave a profit after paying for his time?
Funny how every owner of a non-earner site is convinced his site has a lot of “potential”.
Yeah, I know what you mean, and I almost didn’t want to put that in here because everyone does that, however how else would I put it, if it has potential it has potential.
If that “potential” can be easily realised you’d have done it already.
Not necessarily. If you start building a house and get half way, you can’t say “oh if the house could be built it would be built already.” If someone finishes what I started then it has “potential.” I would be selling an incomplete project for someone else to take over.
If it can only be done by someone with a certain skill set, and if he needs to devote a chunk of time, on what grounds are you convinced that the money so generated will leave a profit after paying for his time?
It would have to be another web developer… You can’t start building a house then give it over to a ice cream truck driver to finish it. The person will need time, like all businesses, however I’ve done the majority of the work. The reason I’m not finishing it, is because I want to focus on missionary work.
I understand how phony it sounds, some back story about being a missionary and trying to sell a site with “potential” nobody is gonna believe it. They will think I’m trying to trick them into buying a dud. So I’ve realized how hard it will be to sell in the state it’s in and decided I won’t sell it.
The mods can close this post, I don’t need the question answered anymore.
Ah, so it’s more like a business than a house? That’s something I could go along with.
You’ve been buying goods (visitors) and selling them at no profit. And buying goods and selling them. And making $0. You now want someone else to believe that if he does what you’re doing and uses his superior skills to do it, he will make a profit?
There’s nothing phony about it. You likely believe that this pet project of yours will become big one day without any special talent needed. The problem is that to get a buyer to cough up you need to convince him of that.