Hello everyone,
I am nearly finished with a project of mine, it helps run due-diligence on online businesses with a focus on revenue durability, website and repository health. I have my own ideas and research on what a buyer NEEDS to know, but please share what issues or data is most important for evaluating any business on the internet. Thank you all!
Hello everyone,
I am nearly finished with a project of mine, it helps run due-diligence on online businesses with a focus on revenue durability, website and repository health. I have my own ideas and research on what a buyer NEEDS to know, but please share what issues or data is most important for evaluating any business on the internet. Thank you all!
Hello everyone,
I have been building a tool that allows online business acquirers/buyers to scan and verify via oauths a websites technical/financial issues, state, statistics. Then a fully detailed report allows the buyer to enter price discussions with seller.
I could say I'm halfway done, but only NOW have I dropped the build phase dopamine and am searching for any clues, feedback on whether this tool would be useful to anyone, more specifically people who buy through acquire, flippa etc.
Appreciate any comment!
Hello everyone,
I am a novice solo dev building a tool for buying online businesses.
I built a scanner. You give it a URL and it checks for the technical stuff: no encryption, exposed keys, security gaps, "potemkin" features, AI-cost bombers. Any found leaked keys are fully encrypted and never reach a human. You can also request the sellers github, supabase, stripe platform read-only access via a personal link and run a deeper analysis.
To see if I was imagining the problem, I ran it on 100 real listings that were up for sale on flippa. 86 of them had at least one real issue. Over half weren't even using basic HTTPS encryption. About 1 in 4 had dead/fake features (I can post the data and findings if anyone is interested).
The idea is that a buyer runs this before they wire the money, and every issue it finds is something they can either negotiate off the price or get the seller to fix as a condition of the sale. Buyer-side. The report is basically the product.
What do you guys think? Am I in the right direction, is this a real pain? Would you pay for this service? Maybe I should shift my focus more on sellers?
(mods please be nice)
Any feedback, tips or questions would be greatly appreciated!
Hello everyone,
I am a novice solo dev building a tool for buying online businesses.
I was building a mobile app when I noticed something. A ton of small online businesses get sold every day - Shopify stores, little content sites, tiny SaaS tools. The marketplaces verify the money (traffic, revenue), which is great, but nobody checks whether the actual thing you're buying is technically sound: if it leaks data, whether the "features" it's being sold on actually work, whether the code is a mess.
So I built a scanner. You give it a URL and it checks for the technical stuff: no encryption, exposed keys, security gaps, "potemkin" features, AI-cost bombers. Any found leaked keys are fully encrypted and never reach a human. You can also request the sellers github, supabase, stripe platform read-only access via a personal link and run a deeper analysis
To see if I was imagining the problem, I ran it on 100 real listings that were up for sale on flippa. 86 of them had at least one real issue. Over half weren't even using basic HTTPS encryption. About 1 in 4 had dead/fake features (I can post the data and findings if anyone is interested).
The idea is that a buyer runs this before they wire the money, and every issue it finds is something they can either negotiate off the price or get the seller to fix as a condition of the sale. Buyer-side. The report is basically the product.
What do you guys think? Am I in the right direction, is this a real pain? Would you pay for this service? Maybe I should shift my focus more on sellers?
Any feedback, tips or questions would be greatly appreciated!