Side Project Marketplace & Brokerage

Small business owners and indie developers struggle to sell their side projects, especially profitable ones under $50k annual profit that traditional brokers ignore. A platform that connects sellers with buyers and handles the entire sale process (valuation, due diligence, transaction) could capture this underserved market. Target users are founders with profitable SaaS products or niche websites looking for exit options.

Acquire.com and Flippa already operate here, which makes "low competition" a questionable framing — the real gap is quality and trust, not absence of players. That said, Flippa's reputation for low-quality listings and buyer scams has created genuine demand for a more curated, process-driven alternative, and the post-2022 SaaS correction left a lot of founders holding small profitable products they'd rather sell than maintain. The revenue band is plausible because brokerage fees on even a handful of $20k–$150k deals per month compound quickly, though the model only works if deal flow is consistent and both sides trust the platform enough to transact. The biggest risk is the chicken-and-egg problem: serious buyers won't pay attention without quality listings, and quality sellers won't list without proof that serious buyers are watching, and building that trust is slow, expensive, and easy to lose with one bad deal.