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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

#31

10k for that app seems insane.

You’d be amazed at how much projects with a little more effort put into them go for then! There’s a level of companies with niche products and potentially no revenue being sold for tens of millions. Granted this is partly aqui-hire but 10k is very little money in the grand scheme.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#32

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?

It is the same advice you hear for any other project - solve a problem.

The projects that work are the ones that solve people's problems. The ones that fail are the ones that try to create solutions for problems people do not have.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#33

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?

20 is a very small amount of ideas. Keep coming up with more, and they keep getting better. It's a skill like any other.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#34

> 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…

Would a smart contract help avoid this kind of situation?

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#36

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 :)

Something feels off if I need an account to even see their listings. I cannot tell if they are legit, or just a landing page for someone trying to get rolling.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#37

> 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…

Would a smart contract help avoid this kind of situation?

Yup. Just need to specify the conditions of what "done" or "delivered" looks like. After that it's basically:

  if (delivered) pay();

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#38
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

escrow.com is a licensed escrow operator. This is how it works, they don't get to just decide the outcome or they'll get shutdown during their audits. This is a good thing in transacting on the internet.

Should release by default when there is no dispute.

probably the 'licensed' in licensed escrow operator disallows this.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#39

> 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…

Germany's biggest Craigslist-like service recently added a service like this for purchases that are shipped. I sold my previous MacBook using the system and found it really stressful to wait for the buyer to confirm the item. In my case, it was just someone who was a little bit slow and just forgot, but I can imagine abuse in the system. Same thing happens with PayPal buyer's protection.

I can't think of a better system though, to be honest.

Re: Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

#40

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?

If the idea is tiny, they literally should take no longer than 2 weeks. Just start an hour a day at night or in the morning and chip away an hour by hour. Managed to get a tiny idea I had live in 2 months doing it like this
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