My startup failed, what next? What do I do with my code?

Hey everyone.

I built this project over the last 2 and a half years ago: https://about.parstar.co

It is an ed-tech SaaS platform aimed to make participation in large lectures easier and more enjoyable.

After a good period of development, my cofounders and I went to market with cold emails. We had a couple users but really struggled to get people to try or use the product. Plus we are still in college and juggling the startup with school was difficult. We have ultimately given up, assuming we did not find product market fit/did not solve the problem correctly.

We have an awesome code base with tons of features and I'd hate to see it go to waste. I have been thinking about open sourcing the entire project, but I feel that I should still consider what would be the best way to go about that.

If you'd like to explore a demo of the app, here is a demo account: lnegritto@scu.edu demo123

Any suggestions would be extremely appreciated! Thanks

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csdtx 6y ago ↗

Did you ask anyone if they would be willing to pay for the product before creating it? And maybe it failed to make money, but did it solve what it was trying to? If it did I don't think it failed, you just decided to make a product that wasn't commercially viable.

[dead] lnegrittoatscu 6y ago ↗

I guess the bar for what qualifies as a startup has come down.

Shadow_Monkey 6y ago ↗

This looks a lot like the Microsoft Teams app. But Maybe it was the name that didn't catch on. I could see this being used for small class room settings. Not just for coding but for other things. I think if you had other examples of it being used that it would be more helpful for someone to understand whats going on with it.