Ask HN: Has anyone sold a "fork" version of their web app?

2 points by sdotsen 14y ago ↗ HN

So my app made it onto Lifehacker over the weekend. (http://lifehacker.com/5874115/ikeepm-is-a-simple-free-inventory-for-all-your-stuff). Since then, I've gotten over 1700+ signups, granted a lot of it are just folks who are curious but nonetheless, I do have a lot of folks who are using it.

A couple of days later I received an email from a marketing manager of a company. She expressed interest in buying a "fork" version of my app. Needless to say, I'm speechless and things are happening so fast. What turned out as a side project that I had hope to monetize one day, is now in consideration to be bought by a real company.

Has anyone experience this? She's asking for a price and I'm stumped. It's definitely a good problem to have, but I need to be careful.

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AznHisoka 14y ago ↗

by fork version, do you mean white-label version?

sdotsen 14y ago ↗

Yea, looks like they want to push out their own version after I make small modifications to it.

quadlock 14y ago ↗

Would they end up being a competitor to your site? if so why would you deal with them. or do they want it for some kind of internal tool? You could sell them a license to run a custom version on their own system. Are they looking for you to make all the changes? then to support it? do they want the source?