Product in a Day: FeedLines

July 29 7 Comments Category: Business, Development, Marketing, Projects

FeedLinesThis is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple to a programmer like me, there seems to be a market out there for any type of unique site.

Today I fleshed out the script I wrote for Website Goodies’ Industry News page into something generic enough anyone could use it. FeedLines is the result — an RSS feed aggregator much like PopUrls or AllTop, two pretty high traffic sites. FeedLines serves as a demo of the site and links to a page where you can buy the script for $49.95. I am going to give selling copies of this as turnkey sites on the marketplace a try later this week.

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  1. Hi Dan,

    Looks great! I’ve just bought a copy. fyi, after making payment I got redirected to https://www.visitorboost.com/cart.php, I haven’t received the email with the link yet, only been a few minutes since ordering but thinking if I got redirected incorrectly it might not be coming.

    Thanks

    doolally 29 July 2008 at 11:04 am Permalink

  2. Got the email now thanks.

    doolally 29 July 2008 at 12:49 pm Permalink

  3. Forgot to specify the return URL on the payment button, thanks for letting me know :)

    Dan 29 July 2008 at 2:13 pm Permalink

  4. Interesting concept now. That’s pretty cool that you’re trying this out. Make sure to post about the results of the sale.

    Nick Ohrn 29 July 2008 at 2:51 pm Permalink

  5. Hi Dan,

    I really like the idea, trying to figure out
    how could I use it… is it SE friendly?

    Just was wondering if the size and style of the font
    is customizable…

    what language is it in, PHP?

    Can we include feeds from sites such as YouTube and Flickr?

    Thanks,

    Narek Gabrielyan

    Narek Gabrielyan 31 July 2008 at 6:32 am Permalink

  6. @Narek: SE friendly in what way? It’s a fresh content producer at least which could be helpful? Size and style of fonts are customizable through CSS, and the whole thing is templated. Yes, it’s PHP. You can include any RSS/ATOM feed but there’s no special code for YouTube or Flickr… if you want to display video or images instead of text headlines you would have to modify the feed template to do so with your own additional PHP code.

    Dan 31 July 2008 at 7:20 am Permalink

  7. This is the way things should be, get off what we are on now

    Business 24 March 2009 at 8:14 pm Permalink

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