Idea!

After commencing a work sabbatical in April, I started researching various product ideas. A key component of my time off was to top up my coding skills (I eventually stopped being a front end dev around 2012 to transition to Product Ownership) to enable me to design, build and launch my own product sometime soon.

Around the same time, an ex-colleague launched a REACT boilerplate codebase on GumRoad as a way to earn some passive income. I purchased the code, downloaded a static zip file and started tinkering with making a test SAAS product. A few days later he messaged me to say there was a bug in the code I had purchased. He would send me a new zip file...

This got me thinking -

• is there a growing market for passion workers selling their code on GumRoad, SendOwl, Thrive Cart, Woo, Shopify etc?

• do these developers push their code in private Git repos and generate a static zip file to reupload to the shop front on GumRoad etc?

• what happens when they need to ship a new version?

• how do they easily engage and grow an audience of customers who have purchased their code previously?

• how do they manage to licence the code and keep their release notes up to date?

Feels like there's an opportunity to solve this problem!