This 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.
doolally
July 29th, 2008
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
July 29th, 2008
Got the email now thanks.
Dan
July 29th, 2008
Forgot to specify the return URL on the payment button, thanks for letting me know
Nick Ohrn
July 29th, 2008
Interesting concept now. That’s pretty cool that you’re trying this out. Make sure to post about the results of the sale.
Narek Gabrielyan
July 31st, 2008
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
Dan
July 31st, 2008
@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.