covid19travel.com - Sell Project

1. Seller Bio Single founder/developer. Independent software developer (started programming about 30 years ago) and entrepreneur. Due to previous industry trends mostly engaged with development of apps for Android smartphones but actively seeking opportunities in SaaS. Already flipped web sites and apps. 2. Executive Summary Note that the external data sources are not being updated any longer. Traveling industry web site. It shows daily updated corona virus related travel information for each country. Countries can be filtered by region or by name. All data is pulled from public sources, currently it is refreshed once a day, but you can schedule it as frequently as you want (by a cron script). Web site is completely automated and requires no intervention or maintenance. Countries are initially sorted by stringency of local restrictions. Data/polices shown for each country: Facial coverings Containment and closure policies: Closings of schools and universities Closings of workplaces Cancelling public events Limits on gatherings Closing of public transport Orders to confine to the home Restrictions on internal travel Restrictions on international travel More on travel: Certification required for entering a country Quarantine info Details Sources of information (links to government sites) Website shows no ads, only discrete travel insurance affiliate links. Website visitors interested in automated alerts on policy/restriction change are asked to leave their email address. 3. Highlights Strengths: attractive domain name, no maintenance required. Opportunities: monetization through ads on web page, ads in email alerts sent to registered users; direct contracts in travel industry, possible to offer API access as well. 4. Operations Nothing needs to be done for this business to keep it running. It is completely automated. 5. Customers Customer profile & segmentation: traveling people Customer acquisition: I'll leave this to the buyer Customer retention: policies were changing from day to day. Visitors were coming back to stay updated, or were receiving email alerts that bring them back to the page. 6. Financials Revenue through discrete travel insurance affiliate links. Total revenue in last 6 months: $13.52 USD. 7. Seller Notes Important technical details are following, please make sure that you understand. Front end: The web site (it's front end) is currently hosted on GitHub pages. I have chosen them because they are free. Depending on your monetization plans, most likely you will have to host the website somewhere else. Check the GitHub Pages TOS. But since this part is 'static' you can basically move it wherever you want. You can check the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/covid19travel/covid19travel.github.io With the purchase of the domain you can get the GitHub account and accompanying email address (at gmail.com). - if you want. Comments left on the website are also accessed via that gmail account. You can notice that the html, css and js code is obfuscated and minified. Readable source code will be open-sourced. You will be able to take it from there. Back end 1: This part is responsible for email subscriptions and alerts. It is receiving GET and POST requests and it is sending outward emails. It is written in python 2.7 and it is running on Google App Engine. For free again, if you fall under given quotas, or really cheap anyway. The source code will be open-sourced and you will be able to take it from there. Back end 2: This part is fetching and processing data, uploading it to GitHub (updating front end) and triggering alerts on Back end 1. It is written in python 2.7 and uses the following libraries: pandas, urlib2, json, datetime. According to my knowledge, pandas is not available on Google App Engine and that is why this part is separate. Currently it runs on one of my servers in shared hosting environment. These scripts will run on your server. As mentioned earlier, shared hosting environment is sufficient, or you can even run it from your own PC as long as it is connected to internet. The source code will be open-sourced and you will be able to take it from there. Including the batch script that runs everything in order. Currently it is triggered by cron. You can move Front end to Google App Engine as well, where it could run together with Back end 1. Or you can move all 3 parts to a single server, possibly on a shared hosting. If there is something that is not clear, or some information is missing, please ask and I will update the description. Questions and Answers: Q: Are there any other specific requirements to run the back end on a PC? A: Only Back end 2 can run on a PC. Requirements are python 2.7 and following libraries: pandas, urllib2, json, datetime. Q: Will you provide support during the transfer process or until it's running smoothly on the buyer's end? A: Transfer process includes the domain name only. Source code will be available from the public repository. Q: Will you info...