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WootAgent For Sale

written by John Chow on September 26, 2007

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I wrote about WootAgent back in February. It’s is a program designed for the Windows users in the Woot community who want a quick and helpful reminder when a new product is available on www.woot.com, or when there is a Woot-off. The software has been downloaded over 15,000 times. The makers of WootAgent is putting the program up for sale because they need funds for a new project. I would buy it but I don’t have the time to continue developing the program (it’s at version 2 right now).

What You Get

WootAgent site with full rights + code to desktop application. The wordpress blog, the forums, AIM messenger service program (WootAgentBot) SMS service w/ user list, and our web based Woot Tracker service courtesy of open source code. You also obtain full rights to do whatever you want with the services WootAgent offers (charge, etc). You will also receive the applications that send the IM’s and SMS’ to users about each new product that is available on Woot.

Full traffic and income details are available in this PDF file. WootAgent is looking for a sale in the $2,000 range. They based that off 10 months of August revenue. I think the price is extremely cheap considering the potential of the program. For more information or to make an offer, contact wootagent@gmail.com

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looks like a good buy to me

Congrats on sale... looks like the page is empty now.

I am having it cleaned up, its back up for now.

It looks like it was sold. :???:

thx, will start changing things up a bit.

Grats, and good luck. :smile:

lol, how did this turn into an Auction, and such a quick one at that?

Site will sell in 10 minutes. Israel is the high bidder at $2100

Bidding is going until 12am EST tonight, so 3 hours.

My coder who built the app says he can continue on the app if the new owner wants him to, as long as they pay of course.

Is the bidding still going? My partner is not online and he is the coder, i cant code ;)

High bid of $2100 by Israel! :grin:

mublin,
I've sold sites on DP, don't really like it. As for bundling it, the new owner can do that if they please. Right now I'm focusing on a new project (completely unrelated to and in a different niche as WootAgent) so I wouldn't have anymore time to work on WootAgent.

Just an FYI to anyone interested in bidding, I will gladly provide you with the original coder of WootAgent, he is more than happy to help, and if you want upgrades he will do them (for a fee of course)

Carlo,

I see you have been banned on DP, can you tell us why that was?
I'd put in a bid but something smells fishy here.

Oh yeah I forgot,
he was also selling it for more like $1000 in July.. :twisted:

It was for sale for $1000 in July because I had not released version 2.0 yet and I picked up revenue by $100+

I was banned on DP for too many replies to my own thread which they considered 'bumping'. Stupid rules they got over there, you get infractions for practically everything.

can you tell me the name of your coder? I need something different done, and would like someone experienced in this.

Dont you think it would be a better idea to do this somewhere like digitalpoint or something?

Im sure that you could bundle this with a searchbar or additional software and make a killing just off the downloads.

Yeah, DP or SP would be a better place for this bidding war.

And final price could be better, it's his choice.

Gary,
Did you read the PDF that John posted up? It shows revenue and traffic stats.

No I didn't. I hate PDF's :evil:

What' is there to hate about PDF's. A free file format that works on any computer platform?

PDF is cool! Everyone loves PDF, especially when it opens in browser window :???:

Does the site generate any revenue right now?

What is the number of page views per month over the last 6 months?

How did you valuate it at $2000?

i am in $2100 is my offer.

Forgot to add, just email or ask any questions here, and I will try to answer them.

Oh and John approved the bidding for this :twisted:

Guys,
Owner of WootAgent here. First off I want to thank John for making this post. Second, theres been a little change in the way we'll do things. Since the post went up, I checked my email and I've received 5 offers, all valued at $2k. I obviously cannot sell the site to all five people. I figured the most fair thing to do is have an auction style format within this comment section for anyone who wants to buy the site.

The person with the highest bid by midnight tonight (12pm ESTl) will take the site. The bidding starts at $2000.

Thanks again.

Okey now this is a hilarious idea (well not that the bidding thingie is something new to most of us, but running a bidding on a blog is certainly something new to me. Have seen auctions open on some blogs, but non that really worked, now running a auction on JC blog will definitively be fun to watch how far it will go).

this is very interesting. i think i will do more reading up on wootagent.
any ideas on how best to monetize it?

Wish I had the $2k to spare *sniffles*

I made an offer. We'll see what happens.

Good luck! :smile:

I know the guy who is selling it, hes a great guy. Its definitely worth more than $2k

Awesome, I'm sure it will sell now that it was listed on here. $2k isn't a bad price... especially if you know how to monetize it! :twisted:

Monetizing it is key. Why are people using it in the first place though - doesn't Woot have an email notification or something?

Really cheap? I don't think so. I would prefer to invest $2000 0n something else.

What something else ? There isn't really much you can do nowadays .... nothing to invest that's worth it

Maybe other site :wink:

$2000 sounds quite cheap to me. You should be able to make that back in a month or 2 with TrialPay.

$2000 is really cheap, I must agree with You. I think it will take longer than 2 month to get it back, about 6 months I suppose.