I’ve been developing a web app for a little while that allows users to register their Facebook Email address, select one or more games from a list, and download mass-add Email lists that they can bulk-add into Facebook’s “invite a friend via Email address”. You can check out my latest redesign too, over at http://facebook-massadd.com/ which include a new HTML/CSS layout, automated RSS feeds and Twitter integration, and finally got around to adding a Google Analytics tracking code on the site.
I was recently contacted by a gentleman via Email asking if I’d sell him the site, or license a copy of the site to him “to tinker with” as a personal project. We’ve sent a few Emails back and forth, but I’ve had a busy week and didn’t get back to him until today. Turns out he, or his company, have posted a scriptlance.com project request to clone my site and add extra functionality to it. Today, when I logged into Google Analytics, I noticed a few incoming links from scriptlance.com, a site I’ve looked at in the past for freelance work, so I followed the links and found his project request.
Honestly, I’m quite flattered. While this isn’t the first site I’ve built for which I’ve seen subsequent freelance project requests to clone, it’s always a nice feeling to know I’ve done a good enough job on a site, building up a user base, that makes the site and its functionality worth copying.
I’m a little bit torn on the idea of just selling the web site, but I’m unsure if that would constitute “selling” the Email addresses of my users, which I promised all 4,000 of them is something I wouldn’t do. However, I made that promise in the context of selling their Email addresses to marketing companies, etc..
Any thoughts or opinions?
