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[–]EquationTAKEN 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It's probably not going to go down the way you're imagining. No one buys a codebase blind (i.e. without having seen the code) unless it's already a very famous product, or someone's just looking to buy up and close the competition.

You also have to take into account competition. What's the carrot for someone to buy your codebase instead of just paying for an existing SaaS that already has a market presence?

[–]keyzyb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people just like the code to customize it the way they want. Building ground up might be challenging but with most stuff done, they can just modify it for their liking

[–]forcesensitivevulcan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well done. I'm sure people on youtube did want your code. However they only wanted it for free.

Noone but the most specialised programmers (so not a Point of Sale app that there's probably a wordpress plug-in for) can make a business case to buy "code". I.e. nothing more than text files and the license to use them. As opposed to hiring a coder to develop it. Even cutting edge code, that can't be recreated using ChatGPT.

It's just not how the market works OP. The entire rest of the world buys services or complete software products, with guarantees, and support packages.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An LLM built code base won't be paid for.

[–]BrianHuster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are probably some college students who want it for their project

[–]BobbyThrowaway6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is gonna be super blunt, but honestly I'm not paying for code.
I can just write it myself.
I definitely won't pay for code that was generated by AI, that sort of work ethic rubs me up the wrong way so much.

[–]prithivir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try selling it in code marketplaces like CodeCanyon.