[HN Gopher] Tiny Acquisitions: Buy and sell tiny projects that a...
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Tiny Acquisitions: Buy and sell tiny projects that are worth less
than $5k
Author : mcone
Score : 70 points
Date : 2021-06-24 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago)
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| dimmke wrote:
| I had an iPhone app with 1k DAU and some very modest revenue.
| This would have been a perfect fit.
| welder wrote:
| Similar marketplaces:
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| https://flippa.com/
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| https://microacquire.com/
| funkaster wrote:
| sounds like a fun project, but it shows empty on mobile (iOS) and
| desktop (Firefox). Also, having a search before a browser is a
| bit weird. I don't know what to search for, maybe if I could look
| at a few projects before I could have some ideas.
| phendrenad2 wrote:
| I'd love to buy a zip file library (zlib is too heavyweight)
| vkdelta wrote:
| OP needs to probably enable cache on his Wordpress or something
| cratermoon wrote:
| Mmmmm .. smells like... rent-seeking
| zomglings wrote:
| As someone who would seriously consider purchasing a project, I
| would prefer to browse projects rather than search for them.
| devinhn wrote:
| Was hidden a bit but it's browsable via:
| https://tinyacquisitions.com/search
| SomaticPirate wrote:
| Huh, if you open the dev console it says it was build with Bubble
| (https://bubble.io/) a no-code platform.
| canadianfella wrote:
| Why huh?
| Nalta wrote:
| 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?
| ljoshua wrote:
| Are you referring to open source projects, or just commercial
| projects that have been developed in the open?
| IgorPartola wrote:
| 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.
| jlawer wrote:
| 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.
| unknown_error wrote:
| Malware/adware authors would love to buy those.
| xwdv wrote:
| What 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.
| Trufa wrote:
| Is anyone at HN interested in selling a project for under 5k? I'm
| interested in the concept, node.js applications preferred.
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| Minimal amount of profit is also somewhat preferred.
|
| My email is my username + varela @ the google mail.
| jascii wrote:
| 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!
| csa wrote:
| For businesses that have not been aggressively monetized, the
| $5k range is not an uncommon number. This is often due to the
| creator not being interested in monetization.
|
| A $5k price tag is roughly $100 a month in profit/SDI (seller
| discretionary income), and there are a lot of good projects
| that could have much more revenue that are currently at or
| below the $100/mo SDI level.
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| Fwiw, while you not be the target market, there are many
| sellers (of businesses in general) that like to see something
| they made grow, even if the growth is done by someone else.
| chillfox wrote:
| A web app/page that makes $200 a month would be worth $5000.
| Trufa wrote:
| 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.
| eatonphil wrote:
| 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?
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| Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my point 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 time?
| heywintermute wrote:
| >5k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The
| equivalent of a week's salary in the US.
|
| It's almost comedic how out of touch this comment is. Reminds
| me of this[0]
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw
| tvanantwerp wrote:
| $5k/week is $260,000 per year, which would put a person in the
| top 98% of earners in the US.
| dangerdaniel wrote:
| definitely top 98%, maybe even top 2%
| Jtsummers wrote:
| 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.
| weird-eye-issue wrote:
| Careful, you are incredibly out of touch with reality
| fish_phrenology wrote:
| 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!)
| williamtwild wrote:
| 5k is a weeks salary? Thats 260k a year. That is executive
| salary and not common at all.
| test1235 wrote:
| $5K a week? That's about a quarter of a million a year ... is
| that a typical US salary?
| fooker wrote:
| It's typical tech salary for people with ~5+ years of
| experience doing something interesting.
| quaffapint wrote:
| Maybe in a few tech/expensive areas of the country, but not
| for the average dev with way more than 5+ yrs in the
| average US.
| Jtsummers wrote:
| No, not even for software developers.
|
| Median _household_ income in 2020 in the US was about $62k.
| Average was almost $88k.
| hollerith wrote:
| It might be the average though for people who can create
| projects people are willing to buy.
| burkaman wrote:
| No, it's about 5x a typical US salary.
| frankbreetz wrote:
| 5k is a lot of money to the vast majority of the world. It is a
| considerable amount of money to most software developers.
| [deleted]
| grouphugs wrote:
| imagine thinking this was a good idea
| potatosalad1 wrote:
| Doesn't load for me
| eatonphil wrote:
| Me neither.
| alex_g wrote:
| Me neither.
| PStamatiou wrote:
| loads for me but takes a while
| alex_g wrote:
| This is totally off topic but I'm a huge fan of your
| work!
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