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How I can sell source-code of my Apps

I have a nice collection of apps that I designed and tested and now I want to sell their source-codes and copyrights but I dont know how. Can somebody guide me?

Apps I designed are similar to softwares found at www.webroot.com or www.iolo.com or www.omniquad.com in quality and style.

Mike
Tuesday, April 20, 2004


How about putting them on a (yours?) webpage as freeware. Put some screenshots, juice it up a little. Try to attract people to them. If people like them enough, you can sell the source code to whoever is interested.

However, after your first sale, you may never see another sale again.  ;)

Alternatively, if the apps are good enough, you can turn them into open source projects, get a reputation amongst that community, and not sure what you do after that, but probably better than sitting on some source code that is not providing you much anyway.

Better yet, start the website, put the apps on there and sell the binary instead of the source code. Why don't you want to do that like everyone else?

grunt
Tuesday, April 20, 2004

I want to start a website and sell binary but I dont think I have enough finance to do that. Is there any place that I can put my software binaries to sell?

Mike
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

download.com

grunt
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

But I don't think even that is for free.

grunt
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

P2P networks?

Just me (Sir to you)
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

this caught my eye

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=146358

Bitporters
Thursday, April 22, 2004

if its .net code you can sell it at www.snowcovered.com

they take a % off your sales, no signup costs or monthly fees.

Bitporters
Thursday, April 22, 2004

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