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I don't think you are going to get many takers. In a business, the source code is worth much less than say customers, brand name, etc.

A hobby/project becomes a startup when you have paying customers.

Do you have any?

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We did have clients but, to be honest, we lost them. We're not selling their data, it will be available for them to backup but deleted forever after that.

The most valuable thing available here might be the understanding of why/how you lost your clients. Did they sign up and then decide that this methodology just didn't work for them? Or was it something else?

As people are saying, the customers or the business knowledge are the bits here that retain value.

We learned a lot through these 3 years and it has its value. I could talk about it but it's more or less what we see each day on HN. We lost our clients because, like we said in our post, our heart isn't in it anymore.

i, too, am curious how you lost the clients.

also, why the exclusion on using the name? seems like you can get a better price if you sell the whole company. alternatively, if it's worth nothing, why protect it?

We do not protect it, we just want our buyer to have complete freedom and to give us freedom in return. Keeping TimmyOnTime is part of this.

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