[city41]

None of the ones mentioned here are still up:

(2001) gbafan.com -- A Gameboy Advance review site. It did pretty well. Had a staff of three writers and good amounts of traffic. I wrote the review submission system in PHP and it was my first exposure to web development.

(2006) saidsecrets.com -- Anonymous polling site. I can't for the life of me think of the name of that polling site that runs on the reddit engine, but it was just like that. I wrote it 100% from scratch using XMLHTTPRequest as a means to learn AJAX/JS before moving onto an AJAX framework.

(2006) fitaculous.com -- a Social networking site with a fitness theme. The idea was people would motivate their friends to keep working out/eating healthy. It tracked calories (or weight watcher points) as well as your workouts, BMI, weigh-ins, etc. At its peak it had about 2500 members. I did it with Rails.

(2008) -- Turrets iPhone game. I only had it in the app store for a 3 days and it made me $200, so I was actually pretty happy about that. I pulled it as my employer at the time did not allow that kind of moonlighting and I feared losing my job.

[thorax]

Why not sell the iPhone game to someone and just pocket a little cash from selling the rights to it?

[city41]

I'm no longer with that employer so I am planning on sprucing it up a bit and re-releasing it.