Selling
Turn what you built into a clean, well-priced exit.
When Should You Sell Your Side Project?
The hardest part of selling isn't how — it's when. The signs it's time, why value peaks right before you lose interest, and a readiness self-check.
Read the guide →How to Sell Your Side Project the Right Way
The full playbook: get your proof buyer-ready, make it run without you (worth 15–25% more), price it, write a listing that sells, and hand it off clean.
Read the playbook →How Much Is Your Side Project Worth?
The one formula buyers actually use, real 2026 benchmarks, how to price a pre-revenue project, and the five levers that move your number up.
Read the guide →How to Sell an AI App in 2026
AI killed the feature moat. What buyers pay for now — data, workflow depth, retention — and how to position your app so it doesn't sell like a wrapper.
Read the guide →Buying
Find it, vet it, and take it over without getting burned.
How to Find a Side Project Worth Buying
Build a buy-box, learn where the on- and off-market deals hide, read the green flags, and ask the one question that reveals everything.
Start hunting →Buy or Build a Side Project?
Buying skips the zero-to-one grind but costs cash up front. A clear-eyed look at the trade, the math, and a gut-check to decide which is really for you.
Weigh it up →How to Buy a Side Project Without Getting Burned
A due-diligence checklist: verify revenue at the source, trace real vs bot traffic, read the code, confirm what transfers, and spot the walk-away red flags.
Read the checklist →Your First 90 Days After Buying a Project
You closed — now what? A 90-day plan to take over without breaking what you bought, in three phases from keys-in-hand to your first growth push.
Read the plan →Fees & safety
Keep more of the money — and make sure it changes hands safely.
Vertos vs Flippa, Acquire & Little Exits
An honest, sourced breakdown of the fees at Flippa, Acquire, Little Exits and Vertos — and what each one really costs you at exit.
Read the comparison →How Escrow Protects a Project Sale
The scariest moment of any deal is the handoff. Here's how escrow holds the money so the buyer gets the goods and the seller gets paid — step by step.
See how it works →How to Avoid Getting Scammed
Almost every loss buying or selling a project traces to one mistake — going off-platform. The scams to know, the red flags, and how escrow keeps you safe.
Stay safe →Do You Pay Tax When You Sell?
Selling a website or app is usually taxable. Capital gains vs income, the holding-period rule that changes your rate, the 2026 numbers, and what you actually keep.
Read the guide →Vibe coding
Building with AI — the tools, the workflow, shipping safely, and selling what you make.
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Copilot, Bolt, Lovable, v0 — compared by what they're for, what they cost, and who each one is really for.
Read the comparison →What Is Vibe Coding?
What the term means, who coined it, how the prompt-generate-test-refine loop works, the real security risks, and how to do it safely.
Read the guide →Vibe Coding Best Practices
The habits that separate a demo from a shippable product — how to prompt, iterate instead of regenerate, commit before every change, review every line, and test it.
Read the guide →From Prototype to Product
The honest gap between a vibe-coded prototype and a real product — the 90-day reckoning, the hardening checklist, and how a solid build becomes a sellable asset.
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