Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects

If this were to take off, I could totally see myself use it to discover new shiny things. It's pretty difficult to discover novel gems among the vast amount of Github repos.

My issue with following a site like this would be burn out from new products. I followed TechCrunch years ago and ended up signing up for so many start up sites. I'm sure 80% of them don't even exist anymore. When I look at cleaning up my password manager it just seems so daunting. I eventually had to remove it from my RSS reader so I could wait and see what might actually hit crucial mass before jumping on board.

All I did was try to register.

I’ve been a serial builder myself. Just building things on weekends, on holidays, every downtime available. Part of the reason is because I just like developing stuff and testing out new tech, but the other reason is because I like living an indie life.

Problem with this is that it is not sustainable, if you are coming from a somewhat wealthy / safe background you can pursue that with ease. But if you are a person with my background (little resources available) you can see that there are a lot of risks that come with that life. I know there are a lot of people that can relate to this and I also know a lot of people will be tempted to open and read this discussion.

Now I will be unapologetic in the fact that I indeed plugged my own project here but I am also presenting an opportunity to people similar to me. People who are risk takers, people with skills that believe they can start small and make a change to the world from zero. I want to help and reward those people.

If you are not one of them that’s fine but I would appreciate if you could keep your criticism more constructive less hostile.

Awesome seeing you here, I remember checking out your site when I was doing R&D before I actually started building!

We heavily focus on the tech of the products and actively hunt the ones with great code quality. That’s also the reason we have a few people that do code reviews and generally stay away from no code stuff or outdated projects. So we try to keep things low quantity but high quality. That makes us pretty niche.

The buyers we want to attract will most likely be people that want to save development time and costs by buying existing products and iterating on them with their own team (or themselves)

Another thing is, we actively go out of our way to attract buyers for our sellers. We use all our available channels to find a buyer that might fit a project. This is pretty hard to do but we are doing our best.

Hope that answers your question!

We actively pursue quality when scouting for projects. There is a fine balance we must maintain in order for our goals to come to fruition. Quantity but not clutter, quality but not scarcity.

We want to promote the fact that projects do indeed have value even if they are not generating mrr, but not to the point that people waste resources (their time and expertise) building half-assed projects. To do that we have to actively avoid becoming a d) type marketplace.

It's awesome that you already found something interesting! We have a few communication channels on our website, so if you have any questions I encourage you to reach out to us. In fact I'd be happy to jump on a call with you if you want to learn more about us!