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1 | This absurd list now has a permanent & more thorough home here: https://joshpigford.com/projects | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Project | Started | Description | What Happened | Fun facts | Wayback | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | ReallyDumbStuff | 2003 | Link directory of weird things I found around the internet | Sold it | Taught myself PHP with this | https://web.archive.org/web/20030527003613/http://www.reallydumbstuff.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | ReallyFunArcade | 2003 | Link directory of Flash games | Sold it 1 year later for $4,500 | First site I ever sold | https://web.archive.org/web/20030810010353/http://www.reallyfunarcade.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Indie Riot | 2003 | Online community & publication for musicians/artists | Shut it down | I started it by writing music reviews, then it just pickled out. I got bored. | https://web.archive.org/web/20031205175733/http://www.indieriot.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Automatik Studios | 2003 | Web design consulting | Morphed in to Sabotage Media (see below) | First freelance consutling "company" I created | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Tutorial Outpost | 2003 | Link directory of design tutorials around the internet | Sold 6 years later for $19,000 | https://web.archive.org/web/20031126191524/http://www.tutorialoutpost.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | The Fun Mall | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | I started dabbling in affiliate revenue learned about the whole world of scrapping content and using APIs | https://web.archive.org/web/20040519054035/http://www.thefunmall.net:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Lawn and Garden Outlet | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | I kept dabbling in affiliate revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Brush Source | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | Guys. Affiliate revenue. | https://web.archive.org/web/20041209132401/http://www.brushsource.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Smart Pet Shop | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | You guessed it. | https://web.archive.org/web/20041023043309/http://www.smartpetshop.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | eKitchenShop | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20041013063626/http://www.ekitchenshop.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Jewelry Shopper Online | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | MagazineReviews.net | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20041022020505/http://www.magazinereviews.net:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Arcade Rampage | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20041210182131/http://arcaderampage.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | AppleLeak | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20041209110928/http://www.appleleak.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Poster Outpost | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20041209120540/http://www.posteroutpost.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | All Tropical Vacations | 2004 | Amazon affiliate site | Shut it down | Started adding content to Amazon affiliate sites! Sigh. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | HarmonyPeriod | 2004 | Free music lessons | Shut it down | SEO play using free creative commons content. Would then show ads on the site. | https://web.archive.org/web/20040417013117/http://www.harmonyperiod.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | TheAppleBlog | 2004 | Apple technology publication | Acquired 4 years later by GigaOm for $75,000 (plus a salaried job for 2 years) | One of the first things that really took off for me. I had a pretty extensive staff of writers, was invited by Apple to various events and established it as one of the major Apple sites at the time. | https://web.archive.org/web/20041124230640/http://theappleblog.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Sabotage | 2004 | Shell company | Still exists as the legal entity for all my random stuff | Ultimately what became the permanent "shell" company for everything I do. | https://web.archive.org/web/20050204220139/http://www.sabotagemedia.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | MedicineDB | 2005 | Directory of information on medicine | Shut it down | SEO play using free content. Would then show ads on the site. | https://web.archive.org/web/20051220135121/http://www.medicinedb.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Survive The War | 2005 | Content for preppers | Shut it down | SEO play using free content. Would then show ads on the site. What a dark topic. 😛 | https://web.archive.org/web/20051220114842/http://www.survivethewar.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | First Aid Support | 2005 | Content on first aid | Shut it down | SEO play using free content. Would then show ads an Amazon affiliate links. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | CodePaste.net | 2005 | Code sharing site | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20050111115345/http://www.codepaste.net:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | The File Bin | 2005 | Free file storage and image hosting service | Shut it down | 50mb for free! 😛 | https://web.archive.org/web/20050103075807/http://www.thefilebin.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | MyMegaFile | 2005 | Free file storage and image hosting service | Shut it down | 100mb for free! 🤑 | https://web.archive.org/web/20050812005417/http://www.mymegafile.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Doinko | 2005 | Music video embedding | Shut it down | Sharing videos wasn't easy back then... | https://web.archive.org/web/20051124163655/http://doinko.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 26Faves | 2005 | Community to share your favorite things | Shut it down | You'd share one thing for each letter of the alphabet (hence the "26" for the 26 letters of the alphabet) | https://web.archive.org/details/26faves.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Brush Find | 2005 | Photoshop brush directory | Sold 1 year later for $700 | https://web.archive.org/web/20051104034532/http://www.brushfind.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Statblox | 2006 | Web stats & hit counters service | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20060702235217/http://statblox.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Adregate | 2006 | Ad management platform | Sold it for $10,000 before even launching | Google launched their own ad management platform while I was building this. Ultimately got cared by that and opted to not launch it and instead just sell it. Also, used every dime of this to pay a $10,000 IRS bill thanks to a terrible CPA I had at the time. | https://web.archive.org/web/20060409113920/http://adregate.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Fugitive Toys | 2006 | Urban vinyl toy store | Sold 3 years later for $26,000 | Mubashar Iqbal (aka Mubs, a prolific maker on Product Hunt was a co-founder). My wife and I had vinyl toys stacked to the ceiling of our apartment. Seriously, one of the funnest businesses I've ever had. | https://web.archive.org/web/20060203034356/http://www.fugitivetoys.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Daily Translation | 2006 | Weird phrase guessing game | Sold 1 year later for $200 | https://web.archive.org/web/20061107140835/http://dailytranslation.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | BanThat | 2006 | Community based around what people didn't like | Sold 1 year later for $2,000 | What a terrible idea... | https://web.archive.org/web/20060430102649/http://banthat.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Arcaplay | 2006 | Free online flash games | Sold 1 year later for $2,700 | Had AJAX commenting and rating! | https://web.archive.org/web/20060101030538/http://arcaplay.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | MyPollCreator | 2006 | Poll builder | Shut it down | One of the first "apps" I created | https://web.archive.org/web/20060423153938/http://mypollcreator.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | MadLibCreator | 2006 | Madlib builder | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20060708225120/http://mymadlibcreator.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | MyQuizCreator | 2006 | Quiz builder | Shut it down | https://web.archive.org/web/20060505175638/http://myquizcreator.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Fleckspot | 2006 | Web host | Shut it down | Yes, a web hosting company. Or more speficially, a web hosting reseller. | https://web.archive.org/web/20060602013750/http://www.fleckspot.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | TrackThePack | 2006 | Package tracking app | Sold 6 years later for $11,000 (and then backed out at the last second) and then shut it down. | First SaaS product. Built it while running Fugitive Toys. Was one of the first package tracking apps for the iPhone. Decided to sell it, but then at the last minute I backed out and gave the money back. I had plans of doubling down on it and then never did anything with it. In hindsight I wish I had sold it. | https://web.archive.org/web/20060704221606/http://trackthepack.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Designerside | 2006 | Creative community and graphic assets store | Sold 1 year later for $975 | https://web.archive.org/web/20060813034126/http://designerside.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | ColourMod | 2006 | DHTML/JS color picker and OS X widget | Sold 1 year later for $3,150 | I purchased this for $3,000, then got bored and sold it for a handsome $150 profit. 🤑 | https://web.archive.org/web/20060301005930/http://colourmod.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Sitethrive | 2006 | HTML/CSS template building service | Sold 1 year later for $800 | $139 per page! | https://web.archive.org/web/20061209234018/http://sitethrive.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Superior Mint | 2007 | Coin collecting dropshipping site | Shut it down | I sold 1 coin. | https://web.archive.org/web/20070525204958/http://www.superiormint.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Imgry | 2007 | Photoshop tutorials | Shut it down | Instead of being a directory of links, this was me and others producing actual tutorials | https://web.archive.org/web/20070425073254/http://imgry.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Decomodo | 2007 | Cool stuff blog | Sold 1 year later for $1,000 | https://web.archive.org/web/20070905224314/http://decomodo.com:80/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | PugSpot | 2007 | Online community for pug owners | Sold 10 years later for $5,000 | Taught myself Ruby/Rails with this! Labor of love (we have 3 pugs). At its height was one of the most popular online communities for pug owners. We even produced a calendar one year and had our own custom pug emojis! 😛 | https://web.archive.org/web/20070430225335/http://pugspot.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | TechUniversity | 2010 | Mac video tutorials | Shut it down | SaaS product. Produced dozens of high quality videos on how to use apps on your Mac. Super proud of this. Just couldn't get any traction with it. | https://web.archive.org/web/20100514101241/http://techuniversity.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Critterly | 2010 | Pet management app | Sold 1 year later for $1,650 | SaaS app that never had a single paying customer. That logo was dang cool though. | https://web.archive.org/web/20100709232817/http://critterly.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | PopSurvey | 2011 | Survey app | Sold 3 years later. Made nothing from the sale. | Started as a client project for Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, the co-founders of Grasshopper (telephone service). I ultimately moved in to the co-founder/CEO role. I needed SaaS analytics for this product and it's what ultimately prompted me to build what became Baremetrics. | https://web.archive.org/web/20111103105835/http://www.popsurvey.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Deck Foundry | 2012 | Pitch deck design as a service | Shut it down | Co-founded with David Hauser. I think we sold maybe 2-3 ever. | https://web.archive.org/web/20120720012206/http://deckfoundry.com:80/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Temper | 2013 | Customer happiness survey app | Sold in 2014 as part of PopSurvey | Was part of the same "PopSurvey" entity. Chris Meeks, who designed this, ended up doing a ton of design work on Baremetrics a couple of years later. | https://web.archive.org/web/20131028040836/https://temper.io/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Baremetrics | 2013 | Business insights app | Still kickin' (Doing over $120k/mo) | Started as an internal tool that I needed for PopSurvey/Temper. Now doing over $1.45M a year and growing. | https://web.archive.org/web/20140226171910/https://www.baremetrics.io/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Cedar & Sail | 2016 | Handmade home decor | Active | Needed a creative outlet and way to use my hands outside of computers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Rockburg | 2017 | Music simulation game | Actively working on it! | It's open source! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Droptune | 2018 | New music notifications app | Actively working on it! | It's open source! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Laser Tweets | 2018 | Wooden laser etched tweets | Recently launched! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | PLYLST | 2019 | Smart playlists for Spotify | Actively working on it! | |||||||||||||||||||||||