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I also looked on indiemaker and flippa, but microacquire was the only one where you dont need to pay to list your project and talk to potential buyers.. big plus

My side-project only had ~500 email subscribers, no MRR, but pretty good domain authority because it marketed itself. And still it got acquired only after 3 months!

I sold my tiny project on microacquire marketplace, last time I checked there were even more low priced projects there, indeed it's an awesome way to experience an "EXIT" on a smaller scale :)

For relatively "small" amount of money, I totally agree. However, from my experience selling a tiny project [1], buyers were reluctant to transfer in advance even sums that are below $10K. Therefore we also used Escrow.com..

[1] I wrote more about my experience in my ebook - https://gum.co/side-project

Hey, Thanks for the comment, I attached the table-of-contents [1] below, you can see there is no such chapter :)

I agree, I also despise books that claim to take you from 0 to 100 in no time and/or teach you how to make lots of money.

In the description I clearly state that I'm sharing my personal story, which consists of practical advice, I don't make any promises. Even the book title doesn't promise anything, or says "How to..", but rather encourages you to start a side-project / side-hustle.

The goal of this book was to share my experience of building, running and selling a small side-project. So far I got good reviews and people whom I asked for feedback have clearly said that they enjoyed my book and would recommend :)

[1] Table-of-contents:

1. Introduction 2. Background - My 1st online endeavor and takeaways - My 2nd online endeavor and takeaways - From e-commerce to software side-projects - Idea 3. Building - Technology - Build fast - Launch like a boss 4. Growing - Target market - Organic marketing - It's what you give - Monetization attempts 5. Selling - Should I sell - Everything's got a price - How to sell - Logistics 6. Post-acquisition

Hey all,

I wrote a short and to-the-point book about my "adventure" of finding an interesting idea for a side-project (hence the name of the book), building upon this idea, marketing the project (while learning marketing) and eventually selling it to another entrepreneur (as a first "acquisition" experience).

The book entails interesting bits of information as I you read along this journey that took me 3 months from ideation to acquisiton.

I would love to hear your feedback about it! :)

You can find the book on Gumroad and on Amazon: 1) gum.co/side-project 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DN58X4X

For anyone curious, here is the eBook https://gum.co/side-project

Thanks!

I've decided to sell since I wanted to work on other projects but didn't have enough time to invest in all of them. It's the first side-project I've sold.

I will be releasing my ebook (https://gum.co/side-project) at the end of this month sharing my experiences of building and selling this side-project along with actionable advice.

Adriaan from Simple Analytics shared tips on how to bootstrap your business to success and the story of how he went about growing Simple Analytics to a successful privacy-first business that makes $5.7K in MRR.

Rich from Failory shares with us how he handles the Corona situation. It's quite interesting to learn about his experiences.

Pieter Levels of Nomad List and Remote OK share how it's like running two businesses in the midst of the Corona. He handles it pretty well I must say.

I like Cory's attitude towards this situation, he kept lean, diversified and currently he is in a good state, even though his startup Place Card Me is mainly aimed at large gatherings. Curious to hear how others are handling Corona right now.

Rich shared with us insights from Failory, his open startup. He has a unique perspective to learn from failed startups and not only those that succeed. Pretty insightful.

3 more open startups were added to the list! :D

I totally agree, and while we are not there yet, you see companies like baremetrics, ghost and nomadlist which started this movement. But if you take a closer look at smaller companies like placecard.me you will see more detailed blog posts covering their progress with almost complete view on how the founder develops his/her startup as well as metrics such as revenue and work hours (check https://www.coryzue.com/open/ ). I hope this will grow to more startups as it does instills a stamp of trust.

Hi Pete, cool startup you got! I will add your startup today :D

Mind sharing links to your HN/IH/PH posts/interviews? Also if you would like, I would be thrilled to interview you on your view of having an open startup, let me know what you think :)

Thanks!!

Thanks for the feedback henrique, I totally agree. My initial thought was that each person has a different reason of "why" he/she should care. But I will I will probably redo that. Thanks again!

Wouldn't you say that sharing these metrics like revenue and traffic to the world is not considered open sourcing your data? I find it incredible.

Hi Hackers, founder here,

What's in common with nomadlist, Ghost CMS and baremetrics? They are all Open Startups! It's an interesting era to live in. An era where we are in the midst of a virus outbreak, political corruptions and... Open startups! What is an open startup? Well, there is no strict definition, but it basically means that the startup operates in full transparency, so all metrics like revenue and traffic is free for all to view. I came across one problem though, how do I find these startups? how do I find their "open" metrics pages? And that's why I built openstartuplist.com Some interesting insights come across when you go over the data in the list, like: - nomadlist revenue for Feb was ~30k$, a slight decrease from Jan but not much considering the effects of the Corona virus, interesting. - Ghost have seemed to just cross today the 2M$ mark for ARR!! that's incredible! - And a lot more insights out there. I've taken the last week to curate a list of 12 open startups. But that's just the start, as I'm eagerly looking to add more to the list. I'm sure there are many more startups out there that operate in this transparent way. This is a trend in the making. All feedback is welcome and be safe and healthy :)