I 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.
If 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.
Of 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.
And 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.
I 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.
The public plaintext emails are not a good idea. Scrapers will gobble these up and spam those emails into oblivion. At least put them behind a captcha.
The 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.
Great solution, I've been thinking about how to sell my side-project the past couple weeks. POST request to 'https://buymysideproject.com/new' is throwing a 500 btw.
There 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.
Yeah, 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 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.
It'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.
The 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.
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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
I hope you like it!
Personally, I've realized that I hate doing marketing and I enjoy creating things much more.
I’d even call it laughable.
IDK, it's not very appealing.
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.
Because someone is: https://buymysideproject.com/startups/buymysideproject
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!
I did a quick filter_var(..., FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT) around my numbers and I think it should be working ok now!
https://buymysideproject.com/startups/scriptalert1script
edit: much lack of security - 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.
<p>{!! nl2br($startup->about)) !!}</p>
Switched now to:
<p>{{ $startup->about }}</p>
Any way to edit?
https://buymysideproject.com/startups/automationsio
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.
https://www.sideprojectors.com