Read practical guides to evaluating, buying, building and selling software.
Before you buy Node.js app source code, check the release it expects, the demo, and the license. You pay the listed price. The source arrives when you pay.
Compare a web starter, mobile client, and larger community codebase. Use a scope and running-cost worksheet before buying social network source code.
Price a non-exclusive software license with a worksheet for Buyer setup effort, comparable scope, and Builder proceeds after marketplace commission.
Write a software handoff README with setup steps, configuration notes, expected results, and a clean-copy rehearsal before you sell a license.
Test app permissions with a two-account checklist for private records, workspace boundaries, role changes, and denied writes before launch.
Evaluate an AI-built app with checks for source code, license rights, secrets, deployment, and running costs. Know what to verify before paying or shipping.
Most app ideas already exist as software you can license and start from. Here's how to check first, and whether to build or start from what exists.
The basics of a CRM take a weekend. The data model, permissions, and email sync take months. Here's the real work, and when to start from an existing build.
The code for a marketplace is the easy 40%. The cold start is the rest. Here's what building one involves, and when to start from an existing marketplace build.
Solo Builders finish a real SaaS, then run out of time to grow it. Here's why buying stalled software and running with it beats starting from an empty repo.
You don't have to build a SaaS from scratch to launch one. Here's how founders start from a foundation, and the open-source licensing catch to watch for.
People can tell when a landing page was built by AI, and it costs you trust before they try your product. Here's the fix, and when it doesn't matter.
Most Stripe tutorials stop at Checkout. Here's what breaks after: duplicate webhooks, refunds that don't revoke access, and how to check who's subscribed.
Cash on delivery, InstaPay, Arabic and English, Bosta shipping. The parts an online store in Egypt needs that global platforms leave you to build yourself.
Building a design system takes a team months. Here's when buying a finished one you own outright beats it, and how to check it's real before you pay.
The pitch is to buy a finished app's source code and launch your micro-SaaS this weekend. What 'production-ready' gets you, and how to check it first.
Starters, internal software, and the per-seat replacements companies would rather own outright. Five kinds of software worth selling, and what makes each sell.
Your engineers keep rebuilding internal software every team has. Buy working software, own the license, and get their time back for the product that pays.
A subscription is recurring because you keep working. Licensing a finished codebase to many Buyers is a different trade. Here is the comparison.
You have the idea, not the build skills. Buy a codebase that runs and build on it, instead of giving equity or raising money to hire a team.
You built working software. Sell a license to it now, no users or revenue required, and sell that same software again to the next Buyer. Here is how it pays.
Building software got cheap. Sell what you built for income, buy working software instead of building it, or buy a head start on your idea. Here is the fit.
A working app with no users can still have value. Use 3 questions to decide whether to keep finding users or sell a license to the code.
The specific failure modes when you buy small software, what settles each one, and what the marketplace does and does not cover. With the real numbers.
