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Ask HN: How do I sell some code that I wrote
A few years ago I quit my day job and started using my savings to build a product mostly aimed at companies. For some reason or another I had to stop doing that after only managing a (minor) sell.
I still have all the source for the product, and over the years I'm always thinking of getting back to it, but for one reason or other I have never done it. This piece of code works very good, but the web frontend needs some work to expose all the info of the backend and some cosmetics changes.
So my question is: How could I go to find someone interested in buying this code ?
There are a few companies already in this market space so I know there's a need for this sort of product, and my code could be used to maybe add extra capabilities to an existing product.
- pedalpete 16y agoI would suspect you would have a much easier time selling an entire product than a feature add on. Unless you are talking about a widgetized or plug-in architecture, wouldn't any company that would buy your code need to refactor it to fit in their existing products. You'd have to sell it to a company for less than they could create/implement it themselves. I'm not saying this can't be done, but I suspect it is a much bigger challenge then selling a complete product.
- jpablo 16y agoThis is a complete product on its own. It just needs some work on the front end (I was just commenting that this could also be turned into an addon).