How I sold my $120/mo mobile app side project

I published my app on multiple platforms to sell small projects/businesses, like: EmpireFlippers and SideProjectors. It's easier to submit a small project on this last one.

After some offers with lots of people, and negotiations via email, I decided to settle with an offer of a guy who seemed super excited about the project and who asked a lot of questions about how it was built and the marketing channels I used.

The next step was deciding how to make the transaction: sideprojectors.com doesn't enforce a way to do this, so our best bet was to go with the industry standard Escrow.com

(An escrow is a service that locks the $$ from the buyer until you have sent the assets to them)

Escrow.com is not fully targeted to mobile apps. It's mostly for domains or web app transactions, but we managed to make it work for our use case 🎉🎉

(It's super important to use an escrow service for this kind of transaction, because if you don't, you have to trust the good faith of the seller/buyer 🙅‍♀️)

After I submitted the app to escrow and I added the email of the buyer, I got a notification from http://escrow.com where it said that the buyer had already paid for the app 💸💰

Next step was sending:

• The app code to his github account
• My app social media account to him
• My GooglePlay app listing to his account
• My AppStore app listing to his account
  (This whole process took 3 or 4 business days)

After all this steps were done, the buyer marked the transaction as finished on http://escrow.com and the escrow service released my funds...

I received my payment after 2/3 business days 🕺🪩💃

You can read my twitter thread and follow me at: https://twitter.com/VicPivots/status/1545335616853909504?s=20&t=VqYYPR-Y_T2fantUDnHGKQ