$80K From a Dead Website He Bought for $4K

Mohd Danish Yusuf writes…

Sold Iconbuddy for $30,000.

2.5 years ago, I bought it from @fayazara for $4,000. No revenue. No traffic. Nothing. That $4,000 was literally all I had in my bank.

Iconbuddy is a search engine for 300,000+ open-source icons.

The original creator built it but couldn’t figure out how to make money from it.

Mohd spotted the gap – a useful product with 300,000+ icons and zero monetization – grabbed it for $4K, and launched on Product Hunt (745+ upvotes, Product of the Day) 👀

Then he added a lifetime deal and kept raising the price 👇

• $49 lifetime – sold 46 licenses
• $69 lifetime – sold 117 licenses in 2 months
• $89 lifetime – still selling

All organic. Zero paid marketing.

From his breakdown…

I made $15,497 in last 9 months with iconbuddy that I acquire for $4k.

That was just the beginning. Over 2.5 years he earned $50K+ in total revenue, then sold the site for $30K 🤑

Total return: ~$80K from ~$8K invested (he also spent $4K on the .com domain).

Sites like Flippa, Acquire.com, and 1KProjects are full of undervalued projects like this.

Grab one, add a payment button, and start iterating 😎

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