Make some cash by selling your half-baked startups

If you've ever had a great idea, invested some time in it and decided to park it, read on.

Personally, I live in a perpetual 3-week cycle of Idea -> Build -> Test -> Park.

Recently I was listening to Nathan Latka's audiobook in which he advises (like a lot of get-rich-quick books) to buy other businesses instead of starting from scratch.

So I took another look at the listings on Flippa and noticed that Revenue, Net Profit, Traffic are very important to buyers and sellers on Flippa for very valid reasons, but I feel that there's a tonne of value in the startups you and I have created (but parked) over the years.

No revenue, no traffic, maybe no one ever used it - you slaved over it for 6 months but ultimately never got it off the ground.

There's value in that. Not as much as one with revenue and users, but enough that - if sold - it could fund some marketing for your current project - whilst giving a fellow founder a head start.

With this in mind, I am building IndieSellers.com.

It's still in its infancy and may even become a self-fulfilling half-baked startup that gets shelved. I'm hoping it can be somewhere for people to realise some value from past efforts, and somewhere to find a cheap head start on the next project.

If it's successful there are measures I can put in place to prevent it from becoming overrun with cloned drop-shipping sites. This won't compete with Flippa, the products here are definitively by-indie, for-indie founders.

Let me know your thoughts.