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Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by admissionsguy »

artificial wrote: post #10
admissionsguy wrote: post #8

> Giving your project to a stranger on the internet is risky, so we used escrow.com to make the transfer. I sold a website on Flippa once. The buyer put the money on Escrow.com, I transferred everything over, and they went AWOL. What I found out is that there is no straightforward way to obtain the funds when it happens. Apparently there is no way at all except via the court system. Which would mean the only real pro…

Can you post a password protected zip then?

Might as well have them pay in advance, no? It's not a way to transfer a whole operational web application, in any case.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by MattGaiser »

samsquire wrote: post #9
ismayilzadan wrote: post #2

Any advice on actually finding the idea that is worth doing? I have a notion page with 20+ tiny ideas, but I still don't find any of them encouraging enough to spend time on. How to overcome this very first step?

I publish all my ideas online if you are interested. They're not really startup ideas though. They're just computer ideas I wish existed. Links in profile.

Reading your ideas now. You are a fascinating fellow.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by manapause »

HighlandSpring wrote: post #6
codeisawesome wrote: post #3

I appreciate how open the dev is being and I like the article! But I have a moral annoyance towards username squatting, especially by folks who don’t actually participate in the network…

As far as sensitivities go, moral an annoyance is pretty good, no?

Is the Utility to users of the service worth a possibility of annoyance to [dont_know_yet] down the road?

Does this business model not make it easier for the little guys to squat themselves for a small price?

I have gone on a weird rollercoaster of liking the article, but initially disliking the tinybusiness.

My own non-involvement in social media as a person is one thing; but I can't help but really like the idea of creating a little service that could be a tinythorn in a domain squatters operation.

Terrific work!

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by randymonday »

admissionsguy wrote: post #11
artificial wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you post a password protected zip then?

Might as well have them pay in advance, no? It's not a way to transfer a whole operational web application, in any case.

For relatively "small" amount of money, I totally agree. However, from my experience selling a tiny project [1], buyers were reluctant to transfer in advance even sums that are below $10K. Therefore we also used Escrow.com..

[1] I wrote more about my experience in my ebook - https://gum.co/side-project

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by gnopgnip »

admissionsguy wrote: post #8

> Giving your project to a stranger on the internet is risky, so we used escrow.com to make the transfer. I sold a website on Flippa once. The buyer put the money on Escrow.com, I transferred everything over, and they went AWOL. What I found out is that there is no straightforward way to obtain the funds when it happens. Apparently there is no way at all except via the court system. Which would mean the only real pro…

That is how escrow works in other contexts, like real estate. Either both parties agree, or the escrow service holds it until it is resolved through the courts.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by CGamesPlay »

admissionsguy wrote: post #8

> Giving your project to a stranger on the internet is risky, so we used escrow.com to make the transfer. I sold a website on Flippa once. The buyer put the money on Escrow.com, I transferred everything over, and they went AWOL. What I found out is that there is no straightforward way to obtain the funds when it happens. Apparently there is no way at all except via the court system. Which would mean the only real pro…

> Which would mean the only real protection Escrow gives is against the buyer going bankrupt (or using false identity, I suppose).

Well, the buyer is out of the money in any case, which is a pretty big protection.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by randymonday »

leodriesch wrote: post #5

This is very interesting. I only really heard about these billion dollar aquisitions like Slack, I didn't know that there is an online marketplace for buying startups in the range of a few thousand dollars. That's awesome!

I sold my tiny project on microacquire marketplace, last time I checked there were even more low priced projects there, indeed it's an awesome way to experience an "EXIT" on a smaller scale :)

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

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Post by kijin »

leodriesch wrote: post #5

This is very interesting. I only really heard about these billion dollar aquisitions like Slack, I didn't know that there is an online marketplace for buying startups in the range of a few thousand dollars. That's awesome!

It might be a stretch to call them startups. Often it's just a domain name with an idea attached to it. It might come with a proof-of-concept weekend project if you're lucky, but you'll probably need to rewrite that app anyway.

A few thousand dollars doesn't sound bad for a decent domain name and an interesting idea into which someone has put a few days' worth of time and effort. A functional webapp would be nice but not strictly necessary.

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