Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 20years 3253 days ago
Small ecommerce site selling fidget spinners. It's sold $4k worth of fidget spinners in the past 2 months.

Hosting costs $10/mo Shipping & support take about 5 to 10 hours total per month.

I started this with my 13 year old son over the summer as a way of teaching him how to launch a website, advertise it and sell products through the site.

Now that school will be starting up again here soon, we will not have the time to put into it. I have a few other sites/SaaS products that take up most of my time and he is going to be busy with school so I am looking to offload the site.

Email: bizdiscussions at gmail dot com

2 comments

Sounds like it would be worth a lot less when the fidget spinner fad dies out.
Are you using Shopify? Drop shipping?
Custom Woocommerce implementation on Wordpress. Custom plugins for automating things such as shipping labels, packing slips, etc. Hosted on DigitalOcean.

No drop shipping. We spend about 20 to 30 minutes per week packing and shipping inventory from our garage.

How do you generate relevant traffic out of interest?
Search engines, social media, videos, content, etc. A variety of different ways.