Since the overall tone here is so negative, I would like to point out that a) you can sell source code and b) some people do work on their amazing hobby project

Since the overall tone here is so negative, I would like to point out that a) you can sell source code and b) some people do work on their amazing hobby projects without outside feedback and it still works out OK and c) helping people with their coding can be very rewarding personally But where people here are correct is that in most cases, source code by itself will fetch a lower price than the customer contacts, email marketing lists, pre-qualified leads, ad designs, etc. That said, we did sell source code at a good price a few times, but that only worked because: 1. The company buying it had overpromised to their customers and were contractually bound to deliver, so purchasing my whacky half-finished source code was cheaper for them than paying the penalty for not delivering on time. As part of the deal, we were also hired for a month to integrate their CI into the app and ship it. After they dodged legal responsibility this way, I believe they never used the source code again, but instead hired a team to rewrite everything from scratch. So they paid us purely for the time savings. 2. The software being sold had been featured on national TV together with a major Hollywood movie studio praising it. This started out as helping people for free and then we built without any feedback what we thought the market needed. But it was a ridiculously unbelievable stroke of lucky events that led to us sending a feature-limited version to studios and them using it and promoting it among themselves. 3. The source code being sold was rumored to contain an algorithm doing content-based image retrieval (think Google Images search) more efficiently than the largest publicly available search engines. 4. The source code was sold at a big loss. It would have cost 5x the price to hire a team to build it again. It doesn't sound like you're famous yet or like you invented the next big algorithm, and you probably don't want to get paid scraps either, so your best bet if you insist on monetizing the source code would be to find the one medium to large company that urgently needs this video chat to work or else they face horrible consequences. Only then will you get a good price.