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Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#21

5k 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…

Careful, you are incredibly out of touch with reality

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#22

5k 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…

I don’t have the formal education or know how to get hired as a developer, and make 35k a year in Seattle doing non-developer stuff. $5k would be pretty neat. It does remind me of the height of the flash game period though (where I started programming!)

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#23

5k 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 is a weeks salary? Thats 260k a year. That is executive salary and not common at all.

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#24

5k 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 a week? That's about a quarter of a million a year ... is that a typical US salary?

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#25

5k 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 is a lot of money to the vast majority of the world. It is a considerable amount of money to most software developers.

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

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post #11

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?

There is a bunch of small tools that exist online (base64 encoders, hash functions, SPF rule generators, etc). Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting.

I could imagine someone basically picking these up and collectively monetizing with ads, or other methods. Likely not suitable for a massive business, but likely able to sustain a sole operator or even a small team if operated frugally.

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

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post #11

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?

Malware/adware authors would love to buy those.

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#28

5k 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.

definitely top 98%, maybe even top 2%

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

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post #18
post #16

Is 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!

I understand, maybe if it’s doing small amounts?

I’m just curious about the offers and I can afford that kind of money for an experiment as long as there’s a long shot of making something out of it.

Re: Tiny Acquisitions

#30

5k 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 a week? That's about a quarter of a million a year ... is that a typical US salary?

No, not even for software developers.

Median household income in 2020 in the US was about $62k. Average was almost $88k.

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