I'm curious if there's a market for people who want to buy small projects like this. I imagine there's a lot of projects that are already on GitHub with a small following with owners that would like to cash out, but I'm not sure there's a market of buyers looking to pick up repos?
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#12I'm curious if there's a market for people who want to buy small projects like this. I imagine there's a lot of projects that are already on GitHub with a small following with owners that would like to cash out, but I'm not sure there's a market of buyers looking to pick up repos?
Are you referring to open source projects, or just commercial projects that have been developed in the open?
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#13As someone who would seriously consider purchasing a project, I would prefer to browse projects rather than search for them.
Was hidden a bit but it's browsable via: https://tinyacquisitions.com/search
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#14What this is good for is people with failed projects who want to just sell them off so they can save face and say their project was "acquired" and technically not be lying.
If they can go a step further and send out press releases about the acquisition automatically that would be great, but without revealing the sum of the acquisition.
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#15I'm curious if there's a market for people who want to buy small projects like this. I imagine there's a lot of projects that are already on GitHub with a small following with owners that would like to cash out, but I'm not sure there's a market of buyers looking to pick up repos?
Depending on what it is, I would certainly be a buyer. There are a lot of niche projects that I know nothing about but I am good at picking up on a topic and making projects successful once I find the niche and get into it. $5k seems right and if it’s a thing that can be profitable then yeah it seems like a good investment amount.
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#16Is anyone at HN interested in selling a project for under 5k? I’m interested in the concept, node.js applications preferred.
Minimal amount of profit is also somewhat preferred.
My email is my username + varela @ the google mail.
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#175k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit?
Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you couldn't hold on to for significantly more profit?
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#18Is anyone at HN interested in selling a project for under 5k? I’m interested in the concept, node.js applications preferred. Minimal amount of profit is also somewhat preferred. My email is my username + varela @ the google mail.
I don't think I'd let a profit making project go for under $5k, but have fun shopping and I hope you find what you're looking for!
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#195k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit? Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you co…
$5k/week is $260,000 per year, which would put a person in the top 98% of earners in the US.
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#205k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit? Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you co…
That's not a week's salary for most of the US, maybe in SV and NYC. $5k/week is $260k/year. The median salary in 2019 was apparently $107k or so for software developers, which is more like $2k/week. I wouldn't expect it to have more than doubled in the past 2 years.