Possibly Selling Code Snippets - Any Last Minute Offers?
I’ve had an offer from someone who wants to buy my Code Snippets site (and, indeed, the entire bigbold.com domain). I am not certain whether I will take it or not, but will be thinking about it over the next few days. The offer is a good one, and if I decide to sell, I don’t think anyone will better it. However, the Internet is a funny thing, so I’m posting this just in case someone’s had their eye on the site and is interested in making a last minute offer.
I can’t offer too many details at this stage, but the site’s stats are openly viewable by clicking on the “Site Meter” button at the bottom of all Code Snippets’ pages. Currently we’re looking at about 280-300 thousand page views per month and 190-200 thousand uniques. Extremely good rankings in Google all round, most traffic coming from there. Traffic nearly entirely coders (judging from the referral strings!). Profit about $800 a month, but the space is rather underutilized due to my laziness. Increasing this would not be much of a challenge. Several other pages on the domain have value in their own right and could be monetized too.
Based off of the offer I have had already, only offers of $30,000 or over will be considered at this stage. I severely doubt I will get any, but.. you gotta try, right? 
E-mail me at peter -/at/- petercooper . co . uk.
Update: It’s sold.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Hi Peter. Good luck with the sale, nice to see more publicity in the sales process of web ventures
Ian.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Thanks Ian! And if you’re as geeky as me you’ll be delighted to know you just posted comment 1337 to the site. I saw the number when I moderated it and laughed
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Does that make me 1337++ ??
Seriously, though– congrats!
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Thanks. I can’t wait to reveal who bought it.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Hey Peter, congrats on the s@l3, l0ng liv4 the l33t! Looking forward to hearing who are the lucky new owners…
Ian.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Hi Peter,
I was wondering, where does the profit come from? I don’t see any ads on the site. I think it’s a great site and am glad to see you get some money for it. Did you consider putting the site on Ebay? If they are buying all of Bigbold, I hope you will have a personal blog somewhere else (it sounded like you are mostly moving your thoughts to RubyInside?) Congrats!
Eric
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
erm, I realized that you are probably NOT selling petercooper.co.uk, so ignore that last comment. My feed-reader blinded me to your domain structure.
Eric
February 3rd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, no-one would want to buy my crappy personal site
The whole thing was very quick. I had a good first offer, although I was not really planning to sell it. That triggered me to just check if anyone else wanted it, and I got an even better second offer from a third party.. so all very quick. No bidding wars wanted here
Just quick and easy.
The profit on Snippets comes from ads. However, you don’t see them if you’re a registered user there.. as I found registered users never click on them.. so it’s just all the people coming in from Google, etc.
February 5th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
[…] February 5th, 2007 I see Peter Cooper has sold the excellent Code Snippets site, congratulations Peter. This site and Google CodeSearch are a must-have in the toolbox of all lazy developers; a category in which I proudly place myself. If fact, I agree with Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch, who believes the best programmers don’t really want to program at all, they just want to solve problems. […]
February 14th, 2007 at 4:11 am
peter, Best wishes, wish you will come up with more ideas… and sold them accordingly :p