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Show HN: Buy My Side Project
- raunometsa 6y agoI read this quote from Andrew Wilkinson (co-founder of Tiny Capital): "There are all these cool products that are on Product Hunt. Every day you think "that's cool". But most of them fizzle." I know this from my own personal experience and I think this is also true for many other developers like me. We build fun little side projects, launch them on Product Hunt, but let them fizzle afterwards. "A lot of the time it's started by a developer and the developer doesn't understand how to market and grow something." And even when some of the developers do have the knowledge how to market and grow something, they're often not interested in it as much as creating something. ... read more from my blog about why I built this: https://saashacks.io/buy-my-side-project https://saashacks.io/buy-my-side-project I hope you like it!
- sokoloff 6y agoWould you like to sell BuyMySideProject?
- rgoulter 6y agoAnd did you have fun making it?
- raunometsa 6y agoI did, thanks for asking!
- raunometsa 6y agoMaybe!
- hemantv 6y agoThe real question is how you can get good at marketing?
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- krm01 6y agoThis helps to get good at marketing if you’re an engineer: https://phireworks.co/pro https://phireworks.co/pro
- pc86 6y agoWhat is your affiliation with them?
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoApparently, one of showing HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186864
- codethief 6y agos/how you can get/how do you find someone who's Personally, I've realized that I hate doing marketing and I enjoy creating things much more.
- codingdave 6y agoIf anyone is seriously looking to buy a project, they care how much revenue it currently generates. Even if that number is zero, and you are just buying the code, buyers need to know where things currently stand.
- Aeolun 6y agoYeah, 30k for a side project is a lot of money if literally the only thing on the site is two screenshots. I’d even call it laughable.
- robinwassen 6y agoThe site is a listing site, it's not like you click a buy button and then you all of a sudden own a project.
- Aeolun 6y agoOf course not, but I’ve seen similar concepts before. And they all list some information about the business (especially monthly income) that are very relevant.
- tdeck 6y agoTo add an example, flippa.com is a similar marketplace and it displays financials and even integrated Google Analytics data from websites for sale.
- davidgh 6y agoAnd I would add some idea of usage. If the project has no revenue but some traffic / traction that is much different than code running on a development server.
- iagovar 6y agoI don't ask for everything to be dispayed in public, but there's too much information. One of the projects falls inside one of my market expertises, but they just copypasted their APP store pitch. IDK, it's not very appealing.
- raunometsa 6y agoHmm, what do you mean by there's too much information? Like the copy-pasted description is just too long?
- galuggus 6y agoHave you sold anything yet ?
- raunometsa 6y agoI don't know to be honest. Potential buyers can directly email sellers, so I'm not involved in the conversations (if there are any). But I think I'll email sellers in a few days and ask! It's a very fresh project, I made it few days ago.
- preommr 6y agoWait, are you selling this site on your site (listed at $10)? Because someone is: https://buymysideproject.com/startups/buymysideproject https://buymysideproject.com/startups/buymysideproject
- raunometsa 6y agoHaha, no! :) I see someone here made a joke (removed this from the list).
- bdcravens 6y agoPerhaps it would make sense to do domain verification? Otherwise I think it'll get quickly become super spammy.
- hysan 6y agoI already see HN listed on there for $1k. I think it’s reached that point already.
- devoutsalsa 6y agoI’ve bought HN three times now. I’m pretty sure one of those sales was legit.
- jdbiggs 6y agobig fan but it crashed!
- raunometsa 6y agoThanks! Submitting a product? Sorry, should be fixed now.
- vessenes 6y agoThe most valuable thing you could do is add bidding and acceptance to the site. Obviously a lot more work, but if you’re serious that’s the way to make your own value and give value to sellers and buyers.
- anonymouse008 6y agoAgreed — OP I’ll help, email in bio
- throwaway23940 6y agoHow does it compare to https://microacquire.com https://microacquire.com and https://indiemaker.co https://indiemaker.co?
- lovetocode 6y agoI love this! Keep it up!
- HatchedLake721 6y agoGetting 500 when submitting a new project :'(
- raunometsa 6y agoThanks for letting me know! I checked my Laravel logs and I see a few errors similar to this: invalid input syntax for integer: "60,000" So I added filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT) around my INT fields (TTM and asking price). $startup->ttm = filter_var($r->ttm, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); $startup->price = filter_var($r->price, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); Should be ok now!
- dan1234 6y agoWhy aren’t you using Laravel’s built in validation features?
- jenkins6g 6y agoGreat solution, I've been thinking about how to sell my side-project the past couple weeks. POST request to 'https://buymysideproject.com/new https://buymysideproject.com/new' is throwing a 500 btw.
- raunometsa 6y agoThanks! Yes, sorry – I checked my logs and I think it's about putting commas, spaces, etc to INT fields. I did a quick filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT) around my numbers and I think it should be working ok now!
- the_gipsy 6y agoIf you leave it blank it also 500s.
- harel 6y agoThere is another use for this resource - a guide to all the chrome extensions up for sale, and therefore should be pre-emptively uninstalled. There is a lesson there, in the whole "Great Suspender" malware case.
- ghiculescu 6y agoThis one looks like a bargain https://buymysideproject.com/startups/hacker-news https://buymysideproject.com/startups/hacker-news
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- arm 6y agoSelling Hacker News for only $1k? That’s an absolute steal!
- pc86 6y agoI'm not so sure. Any attempt to monetize this site would blow up in your face.
- phonebucket 6y agoPerhaps sell links to software job postings which start on the front page? HN readers are already used to this.
- spacepinball 6y agoThey been doing that for years already
- alisonkisk 6y agoThat's what "HN readers are already used to this." means.
- matt_heimer 6y agoYou haven't noticed the same "Disrupt the housing market job posting" and others that manage to hit the front page on a regular basis?
- bitcurious 6y ago
- nannal 6y agoMaybe do some basic sanitisation? https://buymysideproject.com/startups/scriptalert1script https://buymysideproject.com/startups/scriptalert1script
- lol768 6y agoOutput encoding suitable for the destination format, not input sanitisation!
- emayljames 6y agoYeah, is like some site creators have learned nothing about the Google blacklist, having user content on your main site is risky. I could include ANY js file into their main page (insanity). edit: much lack of security - https://buymysideproject.com/startups/iframe-srchttpsbuymysideprojectcom-stylewidth100height100iframe https://buymysideproject.com/startups/iframe-srchttpsbuymysi... edit 2: YIKES! don't click the authors bio on the main page, the site is already clickjacked. This is a fine example of why you take security seriously.
- raunometsa 6y agoYep, makes sense. I think Laravel handles sanitisation nicely out of the box, but I made a mistake with the project's description: <p>{!! nl2br($startup->about)) !!}</p> Switched now to: <p>{{ $startup->about }}</p>
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- HatchedLake721 6y agoSubmitted a product with 7 pictures, only 1 last picture was added to product :( Any way to edit? https://buymysideproject.com/startups/automationsio https://buymysideproject.com/startups/automationsio
- raunometsa 6y agoSent you an email with the edit link!
- HatchedLake721 6y agoHaven’t received anything, checked spam too
- joshmanders 6y ago166 years of ARR is a big side project lol.
- dplgk 6y agoCheck out flippa.com
- mikesabbagh 6y agoNice Job It would be interesting to see how many hits u got from hackernews and how many you converted
- rayshan 6y agoIs there a submission queue? I submitted my project Stock Inspector but it didn't show up immediately.
- judge2020 6y agoI thought this was going to be an NFT site at first.
- sublimefire 6y agoIt's like a themeforest.net but for web products, yay. On a serious note it sounds like a great idea but it is not. Unless the coding monkey comes packaged in the price. Why would I want to maintain and try to sell someone elses code? It would probably be less effort to just reverse engineer any of those. But maybe I'm wrong and there are actually people wiling to buy this stuff.
- sideproject 6y agoI run this one. https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com
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- sangnoir 6y agoThe number of Chrome extensions available for sale is scary: most buyers of extensions "monetize" in user-hostile ways, earlier this week, I had Bing ads being injected into Google search results - fortunately, I only had 2 extensions installed so it wasn't hard to find which one was responsible. Extensions that are granted access to all sites are a security nightmare.
- mapster 6y agoProduct hunt is mostly results of someone else’s Fail Fast approach. If you buy one of these, the project will fail twice.
- ezekg 6y agoThese types of marketplaces always turn into low-quality listings for side projects that have never made money, listed for $$$, created by people who have never made money online. When I was toying with the idea of selling my business last year, and other side projects in the past, I looked for a legit website where I could list my business alongside other like-businesses, but I never found one. There are brokers, but those are annoying to deal with and I feel the sector is ripe for a good marketplace with vetted listings. There's no way a real business owner is going to list their sale alongside the usual noise these websites eventually produce. It looks bad and the chances of finding a real buyer seem very slim.
- norsak 6y agoSeen this startup acquisition marketplace? https://microacquire.com/ https://microacquire.com/