Monday through Friday
Find out your side project’s valuation 💸
This newsletter was brought to you bySetappFind out your side project’s valuation 💸
“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. 😸
Grow your app with Setapp: revenue, users, & AI

You shipped the app. Now comes the part nobody warns you about.
Billing across dozens of countries. Licensing agreements. Tax compliance. Customer support for users you haven't met yet. And if your app does anything with AI, add provider management and infrastructure costs to the pile. None of that is why you started building — but all of it is now your problem.
Setapp is trying to take it off your plate.
You probably know Setapp as the subscription marketplace — one monthly price, hundreds of Mac apps. On May 21st, they turned toward developers. The pitch is simple: list your app, reach users who are already looking, and let Setapp handle the business layer.
Monday through Friday
Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.