Kiko Calendar is up for sale on ebay
August 17, 2006 - by jason
The YCombinator seeded and Rails-based Kiko is up for sale on ebay as the development team decided to move on.
Richard White, one of the developers, had some more to say on this blog and surprise, surprise it was even on techcrunch (am I the only person in the world whose stomach growls when I read “crunch” or is that just the fat boy in me?)
I’m trying to figure out exactly what it is that I find fascinating about this.
- That a group of seemingly young guys made a smart decision to move on from solo calendaring?
- That it’s actually tough to get customers?
- That it never worked (well or otherwise)? (I don’t know)
- That it’s tough to keep the wind in the sails?
- That it’s tough to get past the seed stage for such a startup now?
- That it’s for sale on ebay? (!)
- That this time around (yes I’m referrring to the supposed other past version of the Web) ebay is even an option.
Yes it’s the ebay angle.
I love it.
Even the “Condition” is stated as “Used”, and the shipping is free.
So far it’s at 0 bids with a starting bid of $49,999.99 (presumably that’s the standard supermarket trick of selling you something for $19.95; makes you feel like you’ve gotten a deal), but I’d really like to see a starting bid of $0 (go ahead and have a reserve back there) and then we can see how much it goes for.
For the buyer, what would makes this different from a typical acquisition of a seed-stage startup is that you’re only getting the application, not the team (usually you want the team), so the balancing act is whether something like this would allow a seasoned in-house team (who’d have to buy into it) to get something done faster, and therefore be cheaper than doing it all from scratch.
Well. Let’s see. There’s 8 days 23 hours left to the auction. I have my prediction.
Update: There’s one bid. 6 days, 1 hour left.