Small Business Questions and Answers
3

Hello!

The business concept in broad terms was to help customer find the cheapest or other best offer from comparable offers by automatically going to those websites, filling out complex forms and then presenting back to the customer. Money is made by offering complementary products and advertisements. In this specific case, the idea was to aggregate home insurance and car insurance data in Sweden, but it is not . Maybe not very web 2.0, but if one can be at least 1/2 as useful as the aforementioned skyscanner...

I built the back-end that powers the collection and can be queried with JSON from front-end easily and now I wonder what I should do with it? My instinct hunch would be to just sell it at bargain prices (any buyers?) to compensate time investment (it has docs, quality code, etc).

But maybe the collective minds of linkedin have better suggestions? Some tech entrepreneurs willing to pick it up from here? Any ideas - where to seek more help appreciated.

flag

1 Answer

2

Hi Konrads,

Selling your existing application is definitely something you can consider doing.

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/ - lots of similar type applications being sold in here

http://www.viperbusiness.com/listings/ - a higher price point and these usually already have customer bases or generate larger profits. But if you really are code/docs complete at this point, it might be worth just putting the application up there, and seeing what type of results you might find.

Alternatively, you can try to find a partner (or yourself) to look for partnerships with existing distributors and give them sales lead gen and collect on conversions of affiliate products. This is more direct than straight affiliate sales via a 3rd party.

Lastly, if this only works with Swedish insurance companies, maybe modify the app so that it will work with other countries like the UK, US, or Australia where there is high internet usage and you wouldn't have to do much to localize the app for a new country. Hope this helps.

link|flag

Your Answer

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.