TrustMRR, an Acquisition Marketplace for Indie Startups (TrustMRR by Marc Lou)

Money started roughly 48 hours after the monetisation feature went live. The fee is 3% of each closed deal, and the first to land was a $100,000 acquisition that had already reached escrow with the letter of intent and the asset purchase agreement signed, worth $3,000 to the platform.

Three things compound here. The first is that every closed sale advertises the next one: a startup is acquired on the platform every day, and a seller who has just turned a $1,000-a-month project into $30,000 tells people, because selling a company changes how everyone around you looks at you.

There was no long silence here, because the thing that became a business began as something else. The whole site was about eight hours of code and lived as a startup leaderboard until someone asked to sell their project on it.