papasmrf

I am a lawyer barred in NY and SC, currently practicing in SC in my own office. My college degree is in Biochemistry and I took Math through Calc II.

During law school (2003-2006) I took up learning some HTML, CSS, and Javascript during my free time. I was able get myself up to building a decent static website at that time, but I am not a front end designer. After being in practice a few years I decided to go back to learning code, taking up PHP, MYSQL, and Javascript again, this time mostly jQuery, and lately dabbling in CodeIgniter and Laravel, emphasis on dabbling.

I eventually set up a website for SC attorneys for automated creation of court forms, which is currently a break even operation.

My law practice is mildly successful, but it has proven very difficult to keep the family budget going when legal fee income is so unpredictable. Law practice is a bit of a mismatch with my personality, as I do not have the aggression that some other litigators have, so while I do go to court occasionally, my practice is mostly transactional. Thankfully my wife has a good job that has kept us going quite well.

I want to try to take the next step here in the coding area and see if anybody would like to discuss a remote coding/developer relationship. I would shutter my law practice for such an opportunity. Admittedly I am still in the learning stage, but I learn quickly. Thanks to all.

The recent Ask HN post asking who has a side project for sale got me to thinking about rules of thumb for valuing websites. One commenter on that post stated a rule of thumb that a website would typically be worth 9-10 months of revenue. This seemed rather low to me. What are some other rules of thumb for website valuation you have heard of, and does the rule change depending on the revenue model, ie, advertising only versus paid subscribers?