Does anyone have dead-end code projects that they want to sell?
Hi guys, I'm working on a project where people can sell their dead code/features/applications to non-technical entrepreneurs. I'm creating a platform where non-technical entrepreneurs can buy half finished applications so they can speed up their product development cycle and launch to market quickly.
Any developers out there that would be interested in signing up for my marketplace? Thanks.
I would take a look at 1kProjects (https://1kprojects.com). They do something like this today. I believe they have been featured on IH, so perhaps their founder will chime in here.
Thanks @NakoQuant
I'm gaining some traction on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/comments/c4gmq0/website_where_people_can_sell_their_failed_mvps/
My concern is that it would be a hassle to negotiate a price, or else that prices would be very low. Also, the non-technical entrepreneur can't know whether they are buying good code or not.
I'm open minded to it if you post an email.
@IndieHacker1984 What I was thinking was that instead of other platforms where you sell the whole app, you can instead sell multiple copies where customers can retrofit it to their own needs. So instead of selling an app once for $1000, you can instead sell it for $250 but you can sell multiple copies (more scalable this way) and make money on customization on top.
My email, by the way, is webmaster@yumfog.com.
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You should strip the MVP down until you're comfortable selling it :-)
Wowza, two FL folks today... I'm originally from Tampa (in ATX now) :wave:
So I /usually/ just open source my old garbage projects, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing what kind of stuff people would be posting / would be interested in being a buyer on the platform if anything is striking my fancy.
I'm quite technical, but have been known to buy a site on Flippa once or twice for lolz. The problem with sites like Flippa is the sites tend to be compiled in such a way that you're not really buying a product or platform, but a styled instance of some black box app (which sucks if you are a developer and want access to the code)
Hi @joshtronic. Thanks for replying by the way. Nice to see a fellow Floridian.
The platform I'm envisioning is like an app junkyard. People that need to create an MVP can go on the platform and purchase a code that somewhat fits their idea and possibly hire the same developer to further customize it. I'm also making it where a developer can sell their code multiple times since I assume the application would be further customized. Did that make sense? I think Flippa is like a one time sale of the app since the person buying it would be doing so to purely monetize the app not customizing it to fit another idea.
Total sense, and definitely digging it. Effectively selling code boiler plates.
Sadly, suspect you'll end up with a lot of "chop shops" just trying to sell canned offerings as opposed to be being legitimate projects that perhaps failed.
That very well could be a great thing though, especially if these boiler plates end up receiving a ton of updates and are constantly improving.
My Flippa experiment was like... half a decade or so ago and you're right, the offerings on there are definitely "give me a complete platform to try to market / monetize".
Sadly, as a developer, I wanted to make improvements to the site I purchased and found I wasn't really even able to, hence why I think this graveyard / junkyard approach would be pretty cool
@joshtronic Would you be able to contribute any code to my project even if it's open source? Thanks.
Man, asking me those tough questions.
Honestly, I wouldn't and here's why.
I feel like selling my old code would require me to also provide a certain level of support /if/ anybody were to purchase one of my projects. I barely have enough time as it is with the multiple [active] projects I have. I'd hate to sell off old code and then be like "peace out, enjoy!"
Also, I was "that guy" running his own PHP framework for the 10 or so year block of time that I have projects that I would consider eligible for a service like this.
Not only is the code stale as all hell, but the fact that it's running on an esoteric framework instead of say Laravel or whatever else the cool kids are using now, it'd be more work that I'd be willing to put in to get it up to snuff.
With that, got me really thinking of the implications of selling older projects. They may not run on modern versions of Linux without a ton of work, and the lack of any working knowledge of a system could definitely be a bigger hurdle than I had thought previously.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate you replying to my thread nevertheless.
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