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Two years ago I started a small online business. It was not a long term investment and it literally ended up being a one man business. The idea was to provide a service to a small group of people who will benefit from my idea and to offer it to them at a very cheap price. (It being the cheapest helped its popularity a lot).

However, never once did it actually make any profit. (and i never wanted it to make a profit) I wanted it to be self sustaining business and it was.

This was a project for my University by the way, I started off in my first year because of my extensive knowledge in the particular matter, and I only sold to people on campus.

Now that its been 4 years, my batch is graduating, and so there aren't many people to spread the word about this project. It's finally the time to actually say goodbye to this project.

I leased a dedicated server two years ago, and I am finally saying goodbye to that too (can't afford to keep it live anymore). And seriously, it feels sad to shut this machine down haha, I've had so much fun playing around with the configurations (even though it was a production server).

It's clear that this downsizing will continue and I will be closing the service in the near future.

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    Nevertheless, my thesis project was picked up by some companies who have invested time and resource in bringing the project live! So I'm definitely excited to launch that soon :D
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    In my opinion, you should sell/give it to your juniors. some of them might be interested in your project.
    Just a suggestion :)
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    @rm-rf-root agree, probably new generations can still benefit from it
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    @Darmark @rm-rf-root

    actually, I have already considered handing it down. However, at the same time I want to see whether or not other colleges can benefit from what I made.

    I'm also considering the possibility of adding this project as an add-on to the thesis project I will be launching.

    We'll see.
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