Ask HN: Where to put my product: marketplaces or bootstrapped startup?
Long story short: I am working on an appointment/scheduler project that can be used in various industries with very small tweaks (tennis courts, dog daycare, conference room schedule, doctors...basically anything that needs an online scheduler).
Last night I dug more on "my competitors" and saw that some of them never took off, they have no clients, even thought their product looks and works like a charm.
So...should I upload my product to code marketplaces (eg. codecanyon) for a reasonable price ($15-20) or try to run it as a bootstrapped startup and see if it gets traction?
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Why did you start the development in the first place? To scratch your own itch?
I usually start projects to scratch my own itch. And since they are online projects, everyone can use them. Some get traction and for some I am the only user.