I made a simple, 100% free marketplace to buy or sell micro-startups
Details
- External ID
- 46145087
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a simple, 100% free marketplace to buy or sell micro-startups
- Website domain
- buy-startups.com
- Launched
- Dec. 4, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I build a lot of small products myself and I realized how many indie founders want an exit that doesn’t involve platforms charging large commissions or requiring big revenue numbers. Sometimes a project makes $50/month, sometimes $500, sometimes $0 but has a great codebase, and that’s enough value for someone else.So I built buy-startups.com, a very simple, privacy-friendly marketplace for buying and selling small online startups.It’s not fancy. There’s no commission, no listing fee, no hidden funnel. Just a straightforward way for indie devs and bootstrappers to list a project and connect with someone who wants to pick it up.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- marketplace to buy and sell micro-startups
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward CRUD marketplace listing site with user accounts, startup profiles, filtering, and simple contact forms.
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