Ask HN: Has anyone sold a "fork" version of their web app?
So my app made it onto Lifehacker over the weekend. (http://lifehacker.com/5874115/ikeepm-is-a-simple-free-inventory-for-all-your-stuff). Since then, I've gotten over 1700+ signups, granted a lot of it are just folks who are curious but nonetheless, I do have a lot of folks who are using it.
A couple of days later I received an email from a marketing manager of a company. She expressed interest in buying a "fork" version of my app. Needless to say, I'm speechless and things are happening so fast. What turned out as a side project that I had hope to monetize one day, is now in consideration to be bought by a real company.
Has anyone experience this? She's asking for a price and I'm stumped. It's definitely a good problem to have, but I need to be careful.
Comments
Would they end up being a competitor to your site? if so why would you deal with them. or do they want it for some kind of internal tool? You could sell them a license to run a custom version on their own system. Are they looking for you to make all the changes? then to support it? do they want the source?
by fork version, do you mean white-label version?
Yea, looks like they want to push out their own version after I make small modifications to it.