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Myself and a few others have over a combined 300 hours of work into this project. I'm hesitant to put this on Flippa or eBay or whatever; I just don't think that crowd will appreciate it. I'm looking for suggestions on where to try and sell it (other than HN).\n\nThe site is Auto Swatch: http:\u002F\u002Fswatch.nick.sg (this is just a demo site for the purpose of selling it. Actual domain is http:\u002F\u002Fautoswatch.com). 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