Have you had any failed sites?

[Ghost]

Have you had any failed sites? Obviously some forums/sites fail.
I think my biggest fail was an anonymous board that didn't take off and instead it was just full of spam. It was a great idea and it got some good feedback, but it never worked.
Now closed, that was sshare.org

 

[xpl0iter]

I had one wallpaper website. It never worked really, it was not having much traffic, and was very hard to monetise. So I ended up selling it. I managed to sell it for 30USD!
the website was http://www.ownedpix.com

Have you had any failed sites? Obviously some forums/sites fail.
I think my biggest fail was an anonymous board that didn't take off and instead it was just full of spam. It was a great idea and it got some good feedback, but it never worked.
Now closed, that was sshare.org

sshare.org, could have been a nice name for a social sharing/bookmarking website.

 

[Ghost]

Nice work selling it for more than the domain costs! Obviously you did some work, or you found the right buyer but either way- props!

Ah yeah, sshare.org could have worked well for something like that. However, the domain expired when I was away from a computer (thought auto-renew was on) and it got picked up by someone else

 

[xpl0iter]

Yeah it had more than 9000 wallpapers. Not copyrighted by me. All of them were collected from various other websites.

Anyway 30USD was a good deal imo!

 

[Ghost]

Wow 9,000 wallpapers. That's impressive. Yeah there are a lot of those sites, but good collecting!
30 is a good deal! However, you may have been able to get more if you found someone with $$ that didn't want to spend time collecting wallpapers and could have paid you more ;P

But good job anyways, that's awesome!

 

[Sylar]

I've had quite a few failed sites! However, with each failed site, I improved just a bit, making my overall ability much better :ilike:

 

[Gytix]

I've had a failed blog, if that counts?
Although a Gaming forum I helped run, shut after 2 years of us trying to revive it.. It didn't really "fail" as such but we just felt the need to close it.

 

[Sam1]

I'll say all of them... Quite a few made profits when I sold them but I've never achieved my goals. As Sylar said though- I've learned from every failure!

 

[Martee]

One or two failed sites, although I haven't actually ran that many but I've learned a lot and bought it here and hopefully we're doing the right thing!

 

[Orihime]

I've had failed sites, but learned from them

 

[Jason1]

I had failed sites, but it was my fault.. And i closed it and deleted it

 

[Ghost]

I've made sites before where mid-creation or sometime else I've realized that the idea is not unique and not worth pursuing. I don't try to make profits, just a successful and popular site. I have the money for hosting, etc. so don't really care for making money.

 

[xpl0iter]

reducetummy.info! :/
I don't know if its a failed one or not, as I started it only recently. The thing is, finding or writing articles for this niche is quite a task!
Its not easy to get traffic also. I will try for 4 to 6 months and still it doesn't have any improvements, I will simply sell it or let that domain expire!

 

[pandaa]

I have actually had quite a few, but none that I solely owned. So what I ended up doing was telling my partner that things weren't going to work out, and gave them the whole ownership to do whatever they want with it.

 

[Southern Comfort]

I've had quite a few failed sites! However, with each failed site, I improved just a bit, making my overall ability much better :ilike:

Couldn't have said it better myself. I learned over time that closing them when the time wasn't write just kills the whole experience and all of that work was wasted.

 

[steve12]

Yes i have had one failed site. It happened, when I made my first site.