Code Snippets sold (so don’t use @bigbold.com anymore)
I briefly added it as an update to my latest post, but in case you didn’t see it.. I sold Code Snippets (and the entire bigbold.com domain). I sold it to the amazing DZone, who are best known for Javalobby and DZone.com (Digg for developers, as I call it). DZone owner, Rick Ross, wrote a little bit about the acquisition.
I’m really pleased DZone has it because I know they’ll be great caretakers and developers for the site. They have an absolutely massive developer community around their various Web properties and could blow Snippets up to an entirely new level that little old me wouldn’t be able to reach alone. I also have the option of working alongside DZone wherever I can to help them with the site, ideas, and so forth, so even though I’ve given away my baby, I still have the option to ‘go visit’ if I want.
If this were a really slow news week, I guess you could now say a British Web 2.0 property has been sold, but I couldn’t be so pretentious. Still, for something cobbled up mostly over 2 days back in 2005 (though with significant work much later on to make it look nice), I am pleased with the outcome. All I need to do is sell another nine such sites, and I could afford a house! Of course, I’d rather build up and sell FeedDigest in a year or two instead, and that’s the next thing on the books.
Note: Most people who read this blog don’t e-mail me on @bigbold.com addresses anyway.. but if you do, please don’t anymore! Use my name @ petercooper.co.uk instead.
February 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Hi Peter. Congratulations on the sale. It is very nice to hear that DZone are the new owners, I submit all of our new ShowMeDo programming videos to DZone and we get a great response from their community.
Good luck with the future growth of FeedDigest!
Ian.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Congratulations Peter!
Creating something of value from nothing is an amazing talent which I salute.
Will you roll the proceeds into another project?
Best of luck with whatever you decide.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
If the meeting with the mortgage broker goes okay tomorrow (this is one of the few downsides to self-employment!) then it might well be mostly in a house
March 18th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Does this mean textsnippets.com will never by open sourced (as it still claims that it will be on the footer at that site) or is it still possible that the revision they’re using will be released as open source? Just wondering as I thought textsnippets had some potential and was interested in potentially adding a feature or two.
March 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
It only has that footer because it was the default when they installed it.