What could actually be a neat expirement would be going the other way: building some software, and then selling it off (like this) but at a really low bid (like

What could actually be a neat expirement would be going the other way: building some software, and then selling it off (like this) but at a really low bid (like, starting off at $5). You could probably use it to slightly guage how much your code+support might be worth. Would at least make an interesting serie of blog posts.