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Contactify.com

As featured on Techcrunch, Mashable, Lifehacker, amongst others

http://www.contactify.com/

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Bid History:
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Listed:
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:03:14 GMT

Accepted Payment Methods: Credit Card, PayPal, Electronic Transfer, Cheque

Description

Summary

Contactify.com allows users to create a personal contact form and have a URL that permenantly links to this form. It is an original service and received widespread coverage, upon launch and beyond.

Coverage

The service was featured on popular online media, such as Techcrunch, Mashable and Lifehacker, and much wider. It continues to be written about on blogs.

The site appeals to a broad audience of website owners, bloggers and social network users - anyone who doesn't want to reveal their email address to spammers - i.e. everyone!

Widget

In addition to the domain name and website, the winner of the auction will also receive the Contactify Widgetbox widget. Widgetbox currently reports over 7,500+ subscriptions and an average rating of 4/5 stars.

General

Contactify currently has had 15,989 register, with 11,546 of those registrations having been activated.

Contactify has a page rank of 4 (according to www.prchecker.info) .

You can view a screenshot of the webstats traffic at this link http://contactify.com/traffic.png.

Reasons for Sale

I am selling as I have moved on to other projects and Contactify under new ownership could be revamped to be a very successful site, given the advance already of it as a brand and the widespread coverage it hs received. It is amenable to increased promotion, increased features and perhaps even a monthly subscription fee.

The Auction

The auction includes the following:

1. Ownership of the domain

2. Ownership of the website

3. Ownership of the widget

4. 1 year's hosting from date of the auction

Questions

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact me using the following link: http://www.contactify.com/8d74f

 

Revenue Details

I have only experimented with using affiliate links on Contactify.

Traffic Details

You can see detailed traffic information for March 2008 from a web stats screenshot here:

http://contactify.com/trafficdetail.png

Questions 15 public, 0 deleted

  1. Avatar for jimmifli
    Posted by:
    jimmifli (+4)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:44:36 GMT

    Obviously no monetization yet, but did you have any models or methods in mind?

  2. Avatar for contactify
    Posted by:
    contactify (+1)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:53:18 GMT

    There are a number of potential options and whilst increasing traffic is a very strong possibility, my view is that given brand traction, initial userbase and strong media coverage, it would not be difficult to create a mini back end customer management system.

    In other words, at the moment all emails are forwarded to users. This is a great free service and is good for many casual users who want to post on forums etc. On the other hand, in my understanding there are likely to be many home or small businesses that use the service, a simple back-end system (very easy to put together) that stores messages, shows who has been replied to and gives basic messaging metrics, could be a very easily chargeable system - and one likely to be appreciated by users. There is a clear contrast between the free and chargeable offering and for something like $5 a month for a basic service a tempting one as well.

    In that respect, Contactify becomes a cheap starting point.

    A system that charges according to level of messaging and level of features could be monetized straight away. My issue is time - I simply don't have any to dedicate to this, despite all its initial traction. Someone could really take this and make it much bigger - there's a great foundation established from where to build from.

    Hope that helped answer the question.

  3. Avatar for KieranG
    Posted by:
    KieranG (+4)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:46:18 GMT

    I love the idea!

  4. Avatar for neon_eddie
    Posted by:
    neon_eddie (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:24:18 GMT

    Looks nice, I am trying to sign up... Captcha wont let me pass (yes I have caps locks off). Using Firefox

  5. Avatar for mikeyjudkins
    Posted by:
    mikeyjudkins (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:54:24 GMT

    Its not the catpcha. Its that the buttons don't work in Firefox.

  6. Avatar for contactify
    Posted by:
    contactify (+1)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:13:32 GMT

    The buttons work fine in Firefox. Are you guys still having problems?

  7. Avatar for neon_eddie
    Posted by:
    neon_eddie (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:51 GMT

    I got it to work now. mikeyjudkins was correct...the captcha would work, but no matter what what I entered, it said that it was incorrect. Oh well, working now.

  8. Avatar for StuntPope
    Posted by:
    StuntPope (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:51:14 GMT

    What's this coded in, Ruby on Rails? Is the database MySQL?

    Thx

  9. Avatar for IIIBradIII
    Posted by:
    IIIBradIII (+5)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:08:22 GMT

    What are the server requirements needed to run this site? And could you upload traffic stats for the last several months? Thanks.

  10. Avatar for r32faisal
    Posted by:
    r32faisal (+5)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:14:34 GMT

    How many sign ups do you have per day?

  11. Avatar for r32faisal
    Posted by:
    r32faisal (+5)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:48:12 GMT

    Or registrations i mean..

  12. Avatar for dulcepixels
    Posted by:
    dulcepixels (+6)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:25:42 GMT

    I have been using this feature on some of my websites. Good luck with the sale!

  13. Avatar for contactify
    Posted by:
    contactify (+1)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:30:12 GMT

    To answer some of the questions:

    It is coded in PHP and uses a MySQL backend.

    Server requirements are minimals and in any event - one year of hosting will be offered free from the start date of the auction. It is currently hosted with Line3 (http://www.line3.co.uk).

    You can see traffic details at the following:
    http://contactify.com/traffic.png
    http://contactify.com/trafficdetail.png

    Registration increase:
    Yesterday: Contactify currently has had 15,989 registrations, with 11,546 of those registrations having been activated.
    Today: Contactify currently has had 16,052 registrations, with 11,597 of those registrations having been activated.

    Any more questions, feel free to ask.

  14. Avatar for lbeachmike
    Posted by:
    lbeachmike (+2)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:56:44 GMT

    It is listed as being in beta. How many known issues exist? Can you give us an idea of what type of issues there may be?

    And, is there any known signup spam?

    Also - what version of PHP and MySQL are required?

    Thanks.

  15. Avatar for lbeachmike
    Posted by:
    lbeachmike (+2)
    Date:
    Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:19:40 GMT

    Three more questions -

    How many support inquiries do you receive daily?

    Have you done all of the coding, or have you contracted the work?

    Do you ever encounter any spam issues, where somebody may have posted the wrong contactify link on their web page, and thus their mail is being forwarded to the wrong user?

    Thanks.

    Mike

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