$99/month to see the list of what is for sale, without even a preview? thanks, but no thanks - the seller should pay your fees/commission if you make them a sale, potential buyers aren't going to pay upfront to see an unknown list of things for sale.
Subscription is a common model for things like this, particularly because it’s so easy for people to make direct approaches to the vendor, cutting out the middleman to avoid the commission/fees
Show what's listed, show basic financials and an asking price. Only after a buyer sees something interesting are they asked to jump through hoops to create an account, etc.
Looking at the listings, they would be really hard to de-anonymize.
They are all following acquire.com(previously microacquire) model where sellers don't pay but buyers do. Since it became popular, lot of similar "inspired" products are coming up.
"Attention inventors! We will help liberate money from you!" This screams of wantreprenuership.
No one sane wants to buy a pre-money, pre-profit, pre-execution idea alone unless there's something defensible about it like a patent, a high performance team that has coalesced and is capable, or something else unique or proprietary that cannot be easily or legally replicated. "Idea guys" will nonetheless claim they their inventions were "stolen" by people who executed on a business hypothesis, took the risk, did the work, and had a degree of favorable chance and timing.
Isn't it always going to be faster/cheaper to clone the company rather than buy, transition, take over at this scale? If they had anything that you couldn't quickly rebuild yourself they'd sell for over 25k.
For the rest: There’s a demographic that has strong skills in marketing and management but does not have skills in ideation/creation (or maybe they just find that part boring). For them it’s great to be able to buy a business with some traction, spend a few months making it more profitable and then either sitting on the MRR after they make their money back, or flip it and sell it for some multiple.
Yet another sad testament of what the Indie Hacker space has turned into. Just Indie Hackers selling to Indie Hackers. A closed system built on a mountain of false hope.
if I understand correctly, it's $0 to list with 0% commission (and $99/annum membership for anyone that wants to see what startups are available to buy)
If there aren't enough people on the platform it might be a waste of time for startups, and if there aren't enough valuable microstartups it might be a waste of a small fee for prospective buyers, but expensive it isn't...
That's a problem with lack of evidence it offers what it claims, not pricing. If there's no worthwhile and sensibly priced IP, then it's overpriced at the price of a coffee. If there is, the current price is a rounding error for anyone seriously considering spending a few thousand bucks on a website and probably considerably more time and money on marketing it
If it is valuable, $25k seems low. But then again maybe at that point it's no longer micro. But who would be looking to buy before there is substantial success?
I’ve seen startups which got millions in funding to do basic appointment scheduling. If I had actual funds seeing something like that for $20k might not be a bad idea and totally possible for decent coder to generate in a month.
Patents don't seem to carry as much weight in this industry.
There's a million and one ways of doing things, the way patents work is a specific implementation.
Gaining a patent amounts to throwing stones at each other.
20k is a lot less than hiring a HR department and finding a developer. Haven't looked at the site, but was assuming some of the ideas have an MVP of some sorts.
