I'm looking to buy a small SaaS business

19 points by ebellity 6 years ago | 20 comments

Does anyone have side projects or products they're not working on anymore that they'd be interested in selling ?

I'm looking for products, preferably SaaS, making $300 to $4000 in MRR

ezekg 6 years ago |

Do you have an overall budget for this? And on this topic -- does anyone know of a place where profitable businesses can be sold? I know of places like https://1kprojects.com/ and similar sites but the listings are not exactly "businesses."

ebellity 6 years ago | |

Yes - about $70k

I know of 1kprojects, Transferslot, flippa, empire flippers and FE international but it's a bit hard to sort through everything to find quality products

codegeek 6 years ago | | |

The problem is that if it is a really good quality product that ALSO makes some revenue, I doubt people are looking to sell on those sites. You have to go hunt yourself. Once in a while, you may be able to find a Gem on those sites but yea, most are not worth the time/money unfortunately if you are looking for something more than a simple side project.

itake 6 years ago | | |

It might be worth reaching out to the site owners and cold emailing products you find interesting, but are not currently maintained well.

throw03172019 6 years ago | |

I call BS on most of these. $900/MRR and the buy price is $600? Come on...

dyeje 6 years ago | |

I thought this had been discussed before and was able to find a thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588901

ebellity 6 years ago | | |

Thanks. I kinda remember it. But wanted fresh comments/suggestions as it's been a few years :)

ezekg 6 years ago | | |

Good thread. Wonder if it'd be worth a similar thread for 2019?

jessehorne 6 years ago |

Have you considered funding a team to build one of your own ideas or perhaps finding a team that has ideas of their own but need funding to pursue them? If you'd like to discuss in more detail, you can find my email in my profile.

pknerd 6 years ago | |

Why would he do that? He is paying for the time spend to market and building a product.

jessehorne 6 years ago | | |

I was just throwing it out there, just in case he doesn't find some more developed that he'd like to purchase.

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