I made a simple, 100% free marketplace to buy or sell micro-startups
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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.
HN · launched Dec 4, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: digital product marketplaces · 95 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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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Competitors
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Attention rank: #377 of 391 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 35 days after the earliest competitor.
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