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My Side-Project Got Acquired! 🎉

It’s been 3 months since I launched Open Startup List, what an incredible milestone, a time in which I built, marketed and recently sold it.

So much has happened – my first launch on PH, getting interviewed to a tech magazine, reaching to over 470+ subscribers, getting featured on “\open” pages and in blog posts, interviewing founders, marketing and improving my skillset and finally selling the side-project! (was listed on @MicroAcquire).

While the project didn’t generate income, it did get a lot of attention, an increasing subscriber base, and a strong domain authority, all of which while growing completely organic. The potential is high and it’s at a great starting point.

I want to thank everybody who’s been along the ride, founders with which I did interviews, thank you @richclominson, @yongfook, @czue, @dinkydani, @levelsio and @adriaanvanrossum for sharing insights about your projects with me and Open Startup List. It was incredible to chat with you and I learned so much from it!

I would like to introduce @metawiz to our community, Igor acquired Open Startup List and is now the proud owner of it, I wish him tons of success. The potential is huge as more and more side-projects are turning open, it’s super trendy nowadays to be transparent, I see it all over the forum, in many posts by indie hackers.

I’ve decided to write an e-book about my side-project journey. I encourage you to check it out!

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    Your project was to list company's earnings in public.

    But you are not sharing the amount its sold for. 🤣

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    Congratulations! What was the acquisition price?

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    Congrats, Noy! 👏🏻 ✨💪 All the best with your ebook (shout it out loud when you release it) and a warm welcome to Igor! cc @metawiz Добро пожаловать, Игор! 😬

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    How much did you sell it for?

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    I would also like to give a +1 to @MicroAcquire
    Andrew was extremely helpful and responsive and during the time that my website was listed (1.5 months) I received about 100 requests and two offers and I accepted one!

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    Congratulations and all the very best

  7. 2

    Congrats!!
    What a journey!!!

  8. 2

    Congratulations and good luck for the book ;)

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    Congratulations and all the best for e-book.

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    Thanks for the shout out @nscode & congrats on the sale! :)

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      Hi Andrew, thanks for great service! I wonder how did you manage to get listed quite a good number of interesting projects for sale

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      Thank you Andrew :)

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    Very well done mate. Simple but OUTSTANDING IDEA. This is sort of the idea of a business that delivers value to the community, to businesses, and slightly change the way we move forward the startup ecosystem.

    I am keen to follow you and see what's up next!

    1. 1

      Thank you Rod, I appreciate your kind words!

  12. 1

    this is awesome, congrats!!

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    🔥💝😃 thanks for sharing the great inspiration, gratitude and appreciation and congratulations @nscode ! May you create and grow many more great projects & businesses that resonates and contribute to many. Hugs 😷🤗

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    congratulations nscode

  15. 1

    That's great news, congrats @nscode!!

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    Congrats nscode!
    Your hard work is paying off

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      Thanks Angelina! It's indeed satisfying that what I built and invested energy in is being appreciated by many :)

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    Congratulations! I also found some interesting Startups on your List I never heard before but they have some interesting services which could deliver great value for my small business👍

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      Thanks! Happy to hear you find it interesting!

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    @nscode Congratz on the sale. Open Startup List looks useful. I already found SaaSframe on your list which will help me with my own struggles.

    All the best!

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      Thanks for the kind words! I'm happy to hear you find it useful :)

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    Nice! Good luck in future endeavours :)

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      Thanks and hopefully :)

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      Appreciated Gordon! Thanks

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    Amazing & congrats, Noy! How did you find Igor? Cool idea with your ebook. 🥳

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      Thanks Alex, we first started chatting on microacquire.com

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        Interesting, thanks!

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    Congrats and good luck with the book!

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