Congrats on shipping! This is a great idea. I know that a lot of peeps here on HN (myself included) have a bunch of side projects languishing in various stages of completion. Best to trim it down and focus on 1 or 2, and let go of the rest.<p>Is it possible to show the technology stack in the listings? I see you collect it in the Project submission form. Doing so would help prospective buyers / barters better identify projects that they would want to acquire, based on the technology stack that they are familiar with.
OP here. Really surprised at the quality of listings. I love how organic these projects are. A few hidden gems:<p>1) <a href="https://www.youraudiotour.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.youraudiotour.com/</a><p>2) <a href="https://www.tenantupdate.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tenantupdate.com/</a><p>3) <a href="https://fauxbuy.com/" rel="nofollow">https://fauxbuy.com/</a><p>4) <a href="https://geoquizbot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://geoquizbot.com/</a><p>5) <a href="https://getbetterluck.com/" rel="nofollow">https://getbetterluck.com/</a><p>6) <a href="https://codeinperson.com/" rel="nofollow">https://codeinperson.com/</a>
Nice project, good work!<p>What is Barter? Why is it not described on the site?<p>It would be useful to list the number of users each project has.<p>It would be useful if you (eventually) split the list by price.<p>I don't have any money but I'd be interested to look at the new offers up to 1000 usd others might limit their interest to things over 100 k.<p>I will probably forget to visit your site. You should have a box where one can get an email with new projects from X to Y usd.<p>And an rss feed or json api that can be configured similarly.<p><a href="http://borderline.biz/rss/0-1000" rel="nofollow">http://borderline.biz/rss/0-1000</a><p><a href="http://borderline.biz/json/10000-100000" rel="nofollow">http://borderline.biz/json/10000-100000</a>
etc<p>Have endless auctions, take 1% deposits for bids, let the thing run until the developer accepts a bid.<p>Have a widget with the highest bid for the project for the developer to embed in his project, linked to bl.<p>Give each project its own page/permalink on the website.<p>Good luck
Great idea! As someone that will be checking in periodically for projects to buy (instead of listing my own), I have a small suggestion: if you could provide topics or categories to projects (or let submitters define them), I would _love_ to be able to subscribe to just some subset of projects. For example, I'm only really looking to adopt projects in a super niche space (helping writers write) and would be way more likely to buy one if I see it, which seems less likely if I get a blanket email of all projects submitted.<p>Good luck!
Not sure why anyone would buy abandoned projects that are finished. Unless I guess you have a client looking for the same thing.<p>To me, "abandoned" spells "confirmed failure". Or "solutions in search of problems".
Well, this seems like it could be quite useful in future. Certainly like the concept of selling or trading side projects you don't want to run any more, and heck, given how heavily tied success is to marketing skill and what not, I think we may see quite a few successful startups formed by buying projects here.<p>I'll definitely keep looking to see what interesting stuff comes up here.
I think pricing a project could be pretty tough and taking a quick look at your site I didn't see any guides or advice on pricing, it might be worth offering some direction to potential sellers.
Does anything like this for open source projects exist? I'm interested in finding unfinished, abandoned open source projects in the technology of my choice that I can take over and steer in the direction that I want. And of course without changing the license.
Just in case you aren't aware, another competitor in this space is flippa:<p><a href="https://flippa.com/" rel="nofollow">https://flippa.com/</a><p>It's probably a good idea to learn from what worked for them/what they iterated to as well
Cool! I've been also running something similar for a few years.<p><a href="https://www.sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.sideprojectors.com</a>
The Link <a href="http://www.nolink.yet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nolink.yet.com/</a> under xilften doesn't work :)