I'm always looking to create some new niche site for passive income. I've tried various site worth estimation services to see how much existing ideas are earn, but it's really hard to trust the numbers. Many of them are opaque about their methodology. But what if we aggregated their results (a la Nate Silver)? I created MetaSiteworth to do just that, and the results give you a ballpark idea about what kind of sites make what kind of money:
Here's some of examples:
// Music sites
http://metasiteworth.com/report/anydecentmusic.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/rapgenius.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/pitchfork.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/mp3skull.com
// Utilities
http://metasiteworth.com/report/converticon.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/favicon.cc
// Reference Sites
http://metasiteworth.com/report/howjsay.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/urbandictionary.com
// Other
http://metasiteworth.com/report/milevalue.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/mtbs3d.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/thottbot.com
http://metasiteworth.com/report/forbiddenplanet.com