Hi everyone in this blog I will share my story how I sold one of my projects called "beSocial" for 30 USD to a foreign client.
Last year, in November I built a social-media-cum-blogging platform called "beSocial", which featured all the basic functionalities that are found in typical social media site: like share post, like/dislike, comment, follow/unfollow etc.
The project was made using Nodejs, Expressjs, Mongodb and other NPM libraries. I hosted it on Render.com in free tier. The website was minimalistic and easy to operate. It took me a week to design and develop it from scratch.
After deploying and getting beSocial live, I decided to sell it on sideprojectors.com, a platform where you can list your side projects. I listed beSocial for $30.
In May, I got an email from a person in Kenya, he was interested in buying the source-code of beSocial. I created a sales agreement and sent it to him. After three days he sent me $30 through PayPal and I, as per the agreement sent him the complete proper documentation along with the code, wrapped in a zip file, to him.
beSocial live link (it may take a while to load): beSocial
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Make useful tools/softwares using whatever programming knowledge you have, and list them on websites like sideprojectors.com.
You should create a proper documentation of your project.
If you consider your project worth solving people needs, share it on social media like LinkedIn, Twitter etc.
beSocial snapshots
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I have the full source code along with proper documentation, if anyone want, reach me at merudra.official@gmail.com
Oldest comments (39)
I think it's too cheap for complex project especially like sosmed
Yes I also think so. I will be vigilant next time:)
Selling so low also brings the market down. We should be trying to keep the value of our work high not devaluing our profession.
Correctly said.
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing 👏
Congrats for selling the project! 🚀
Thank you 😊
And what about the frontend? Did you use pure HTML and JS?
Yes,
Yes, i think you can use JS and HTML, but you would have to learn their syntax
Thank you for sharing this. i ddin't know that there are services that you have listed.
Welcome
Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome
I also want to sell my project Espere.in
Oh nice!
I also want to sell my project espere.in
good luck
I can't help but feel that you sold yourself short. That's a lot of logic for $30.
I Also want to sell my project mangatv.shop 😎
I just checked it out , wow its really wonderful but isn't there a way to add each pages of the manga as the video
You mean, transition videos? I will try 😃
You should consider publishing your scripts also on CodeCanyon
Thanks