SideProjectors Submission Guide: What to Prepare First

SideProjectors is a marketplace and showcase for side projects — including projects for sale. Different intent from a directory, and a genuinely different audience.

The short answer

Treat SideProjectors as one row in a list, not a strategy. It costs ten minutes, produces a listing that persists, and may or may not leave a followed link behind — which is why the check afterwards matters more than the submission.

Before you touch the form

Decide which side you are on. A showcase listing and a for-sale listing attract different visitors, and mixing them confuses both.

Submitting, in order

Decide showcase versus sale
Write the description accordingly
Add metrics if selling
Choose the category
Check the profile page

What SideProjectors is

SideProjectors is a platform where makers list side projects to showcase or to sell, with profiles and links.

One thing that catches people out

Showcase and sale are two different listings on the same site, and mixing them satisfies neither audience. Browsers stop reading when they hit a price, and buyers stop reading when they cannot find one.

Mistakes that waste the submission

Half-writing a showcase entry and a sale listing in the same copy
Listing for sale with no revenue or traffic figures
Writing a pitch where the field expects a description
Letting the live link rot after a domain change
Expecting the feed to keep sending traffic after the first week

Checking what you actually got

Confirm which audience the listing is speaking to, browsers or buyers
Check the sale fields if you listed for sale: revenue, traffic, stack
Note the position the showcase feed gave the listing
Verify the live link points at the product, not at a pitch page
Re-check in a month, because listings fall off the feed quickly

Two audiences on one site

SideProjectors hosts both showcase listings and projects for sale, and the visitors for each behave differently: one browses for inspiration and tools, the other evaluates businesses. Deciding which you are before you write the listing prevents the most common failure, which is a listing that half-promises a sale while describing a product.

What a showcase listing needs

A short description of the problem, one screenshot, and a live link. That is the whole listing for a project nobody is selling; everything else belongs on the page a visitor reaches after clicking.

How to price a listing for sale

Multiples of annual profit for a small product, adjusted for concentration risk and how much of the work is the founder. Buyers discount anything that cannot run without you, so documented processes and a small team raise the number more than growth does. Price with a range and a reason, not a single figure.

Writing the showcase version

Lead with what the thing does and who it is for, then the one detail that makes it unusual. Screenshots carry more weight here than paragraphs, because visitors are browsing for ideas rather than evaluating vendors. Keep the link live and keep the description in the present tense — a showcase that reads like a pitch converts nobody.

What buyers ask first

Revenue, churn, traffic sources and why you are selling. Answer those four in the listing and half the inbound questions disappear. Vague answers on any of them read as a problem, and experienced buyers ask for the numbers regardless.

Writing the sale version

Numbers first: revenue, traffic, tech stack, and why you are selling. Buyers scan those four fields and discard listings that omit them. After that, a short note on the codebase and what a new owner would need to do in the first month removes most of the uncertainty that quietly kills small acquisitions.

What should a listing for sale include?

Revenue, traffic, tech stack and the reason for selling. Buyers filter on those four fields, and a listing without them gets read as a hobby project rather than a business.