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Ask HN: Giving away my (barely) profitable SaaS app, any takers?
11 points by namkam5 2008 days ago
This was a mostly solo endeavor with another friend and I've not been able to do any marketing for the past few months.

I do not wish to continue working on it anymore, I have a full time job and other projects I want to explore.

I was going to close it but then thought it's better to just give it away to someone who could grow it.

So I'm reaching out to people to see if they'd be interested in taking the product for a measly $2000, primarily because incorporating the company cost me something and closing it is going to cost me something too.

Sorry if this is the wrong place or I broke some guidelines, i don't know where else to do this.

Here's the stats - 6 paying customers (~$90/mo MRR) - 39 Stripe Connected accounts (people who connected but didn't continue or churned) - 309 Emails Collected - ~500 upvotes on ProductHunt! (badge on website)

Burn - $60/mo not including incorporation fee (which costs more)

Here's the services being used - Hosting (Free tier on Vercel) - DB (Firebase Free tier) - Postmark (for emails) - GSuite (for personal email) - Helpscout ($40/mo! I'm paying way too much for this)

Here's the Stack - Node JS and React JS - over 150 tests, 95% Test Coverage (Means any developer can pick it up really easily) - CI/CD with Github

It's a well tested, market validated app. We've had a lot of positive feedback and feature requests. I'm sure it can skyrocket if someone can get it's marketing right and put some more time into it.

Please let me know if this is of any interest to you or someone you know.

You can check it out at https://simplefunnel.io

9 comments

Would love to work with your product. Got a SaaS Startup (prerelease) that‘ll provide web products to founders, startups, and SMBs at an affordable price. We got a solid NodeJS-based modular codebase and a highly available infrastructure. I think this would fit us well.

tom@gentlent.com

I'd be very interested in picking up this kind of project -- I've spent dozens of hours over the past few months trying to find a project of this type and this size to acquire.

My email is in my profile -- looking forward to hearing from you!

Why not sell the site instead? You could probably get 1k out of it: https://indiemaker.co (used to be called 1kprojects.com)
Thanks for sharing this, looks promising.
Don't sell it, I will take care of marketing for a company share only and I will invest in marketing. You just take care of maintenance. Email on my profile.
I’ll happily take this over - happy to include a small equity for yourself too.

Email is in my profile.

I’m interested. Would love to connect. Email in profile.
Yup! I'd be happy to.

want to send me an email at ben@calmcapital.co

Are you considering international buyers?
Yes, it's incorporated with Stripe Atlas so all buyers are welcome.
Are you open to other arrangements?
I'm not very inclined on collaborations, because I don't have any time to give to it at the moment.

Prefer a full handover in the right hands.