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Find out your side project’s valuation 💸
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“98% of offers to acquire your company or product don't work out and are merely a time waste (very often by a competitor).” - Pieter Levels
New year, new side project. But how much is your nights and weekends hustle actually worth? This calculator helps you figure it out.
What it takes into account:
💸 Net income (revenue/costs)
⏰ How much time you spend on it per week
📊 Multipliers by industry
📈 Growth rate multipliers
📱 Your users and following (MAUs, social media followers, etc.)
“I dream of this being universally adopted by 'open' makers everywhere so we all can work with standardized side-project profiles like accountants do with profit and loss statements or balance sheets.” - KP
“Love the simplicity! Reminds me of some financial tools I've come across” - Chip
Next step: Sell your side project in 2019.
A sampling of side project marketplaces to peruse in the meantime:
🏷 Transferlot carefully curates side projects for sale
🤑 Flippa is a large marketplace for buying and selling websites (with a 15% success fee)
😍 Borderline lets you sell your app and barter for someone else's that excites you
💰1K Projects is a marketplace of side projects for less than $1K
🔎 SideProjectors is like “the Craigslist of websites”

In this week's episode of Product Hunt Radio, Justin Kan and Ranidu join us to chat about:
📱 Surviving in Silicon Valley without a phone
🌏 If distributed teams make sense with the Bay Area's high cost of living
👀 Why 2010–2013 was the “sweet spot” for building and scaling a company
Listen now and big thanks to our sponsors Rally Rd and AngelList for their support. 😸

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