Minimap and Spatialviews – venture or sell?
Over the past few months, I have began to wonder how I can take Minimap to the next level. The take up and usage of Minimap has completely taken me by surprise over these last couple of years, and to win the extend Firefox competition was such an honour.
However, with a family to spend time with and other personal commitments, I am increasingly finding that I simply do not have enough time to commit to Minimap over and above support and maintenance in order to really develop the addon further.
It appears I have two options open to me, enter into partnership(s) or to hand over the reins to a company that can further improve Minimap.
If this exciting opportunity is of interest, in terms of the facts and figures of what Minimap may be ‘worth’, the following is an indication:
- Alexa rank of ~65,000
- Compete: monthly unique visitors of 20,000 (although spatialviews server stats indicate 200,000)
- nearing 3 milion downloads of Minimap
- 300,000 active daily users of Minimap
- Mozilla Recommended Addon[1]
If there are any companies that may be interested in taking ownership of the spatialviews domain and further Minimap development or helping out on the development of Minimap, please feel free to drop me an email on mctones@gmail.com
Best wishes, tony
[1] mozilla shuffle recommended addons every month, so there are times when Minimap is not on the list, but it is a recommended addon for 90% of it’s time on addons.mozilla.org
manusmriti on November 12th, 2009
With my limited knowledge of managing work groups and working in a GIS environment, I feel it would be great for Minimap to initiate partnerships with businesses matching with your business model. There is no doubt that the location-based industry is in a boom, and shall keep growing in the next decade. Since there is intense competition among large scape players in this area even in developing countries like India, I see all possible reasons for the organic business growth of Minimap. Good luck!!!