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Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

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Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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post #7

Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

If a side project isn't a company and then someone else buys it and turns it into a company, I'd argue the purchaser is the founder.

If you take open source software or some white label solution and sell it, you're a founder.

If a company goes bankrupt, you buy the assets and then launch a new company. Founder.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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So is premium a "premium" experience or is it meant to be the base functionality of the site?

Two of the premium offerings are: • Contact directly with the founder through messages • Find and contact second co-founder

That seems like the entire reason anyone would use the app, am I wrong?

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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So is premium a "premium" experience or is it meant to be the base functionality of the site? Two of the premium offerings are: • Contact directly with the founder through messages • Find and contact second co-founder That seems like the entire reason anyone would use the app, am I wrong?

You are right, also you cant access the basic info of the project, all the sensitive information is provided to those who are premium. this is just to filter out the spam provide the real value to the founders/sellers.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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post #7

Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

It is a bit more nuanced. I bought a 3 month old "side project" which had like 10 customers at the time and I have bootstrapped it into a low 7 figure business with a totally new tech and lots of pivots/business changes. I call myself the founder for all practical purposes. Everything about this business was setup by me and the team I built from the ground up except the initial market validation which btw we have changed anyway since the customer profile is now different.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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post #7

Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

would you consider Elon Musk a founder of Tesla?

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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post #7

Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

The projects have explanations on why they are selling, and what their current Monthly Recurring Revenue is.

I think you have heavily heavily discounted that the people building aren't the same people ready to make the same time and financial risks.

That site is doing two things: selling projects, and finding cofounders. These are two separate functions if it isn't clear. You can buy a project and find a co-founder, not buy into a project and be the co-founder with someone that has another job.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

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post #7

Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder. More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bu…

would you consider Elon Musk a founder of Tesla?

I would. But in general I would consider anyone a founder of a company if they had a significant impact before the companies first product/service went general availability to their target demographic.

If they already had a general release of product or service. I wouldn't consider them a founder if they joined afterwards.

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