A small startup buy-and-sell marketplace built in 8 hours, iterated on user demand, pushed to nearly $20K MRR on a 3% deal fee plus paid featured listings
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[Video] Indie developer Marc Lou (also behind DataFast) walks through TrustMRR: it started as a startup leaderboard, and only because users wanted to "sell my project on the platform" did he add an acquisition marketplace, turning a leaderboard into a brokerage for buying and selling startups. Within four weeks 1,000 startups were listed for sale, projects get acquired every day, and traffic runs roughly 5,000-6,000 visitors a day. He also mentions turning down a $1M offer to acquire TrustMRR.
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