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by ChadB 1977 days ago
https://www.dispoteca.com/

I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done.

The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of mine who's managed to build a good no-tech business in the niche.

My thesis is that there's opportunity around "platforming" the service with integrations and automation. Compliance and convenience are big drivers for customers, so traditional marketplaces have failed to take off.

11 comments

Looks great. Can I make a small headline suggestion that might boost your conversion?

Consider saying ‘Sell your used computer...’ Using the word ‘your’ in a headline has been shown to improve conversions. I also think it would just read easier in the context of this page.

Best of luck!

Love the home page. Instantly tells me what you do and what I need to do to get started. I'm not your target market, but wanted to give you a thumbs up!
Congrats! Site looks great.

> needed to build something of my own

I HEAR THAT (and I bet many of us here do too.) Glad you got it done and best of luck.

This looks great and seems like the unglamorous-but-useful idea that will pay.

Offtopic: I believe that in the UK, you used to be tax advantaged if you threw away old IT hardware and bought new kit. But you had to throw it away - you couldn't sell it on. Imagine the incentives to landfill that created.

Agree with other commenter. Stellar landing page, and this seems like a good business idea. Best of luck.
Hey thats a sweet landing page, looks very solid from what I see, if you're planning on scaling fast, use an Auto-AB testing toolkit like Quicksand.ai to optimize from the get-go.
Good luck with your project. Landing page looks good. It is a very competitive and fragmented market in US with lot of small regional players.
Looks great! Almost tempted to start this up here in Norway.
This is really well done.
not clear when you upload a list of assets what the format is.
Great idea.