House flipping, but for your abandoned side projects
"House flipping, but for your abandoned side projects"
Nobody calls a neglected house a "failed house." They call it a fixer-upper. Flippers buy them, see potential, create value. Both sides win.
Your dead side project is a fixer-upper. It has a domain. Architecture decisions made. First thousand lines written. The foundation exists. You just stopped building.
That's not failure. That's a property needs a new owner.
I built a marketplace for these. Part of ShipIt.day. When your project gets abandoned, you can list it for sale.
Why sell for $200 when you spent 50 hours on it?
Because $200 is more than $0. And closure beats guilt. That project stops haunting your GitHub and becomes a completed transaction.
Why would anyone buy dead code?
House flippers know the secret, foundations are expensive. Land, permits, structure, that's where the real cost hides.
Code is the same. Starting is the brutal part. When you buy someone's abandoned project, you skip the starting tax. You're not beginning. You're continuing.
Some people are starters. Some are finishers. This connects them.
One warning, unlike houses, code depreciates. Dependencies rot. That project is worth less every month. If you're selling, sell now.
