The document highlights a production-ready, two-sided freelance marketplace platform centered around an escrow system, facilitating project posting, bidding, milestone-based fund releases, and real-time communication between companies and vetted freelancers. The platform is built using React and Vite for the web interface, supplemented by a Node server and a PocketBase backend, contributing to a total of approximately 93,000 lines of code. Key features include an AI-assisted scope suggestion tool, multi-language support, and comprehensive testing and documentation.
The marketplace operates without current revenue, lacking paying users as available data is for quality assurance purposes. It is designed as an asset sale, including the entire codebase, intellectual property, and domain. The estimated effort to rebuild the platform ranges from 10 to 16 engineer-months. Infrastructure costs are minimal, focusing mainly on domain and hosting services.
Potential buyers are offered a live demo as part of the acquisition process under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. The sale package includes full access to code repositories, project files, and post-sale technical support. The platform is pre-revenue, focusing on future scalability and market entry by the new owner, who will be responsible for deploying and following the business roadmap. Note that the core application uses open-source components, while the primary code is custom-developed.
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3. Review traffic. Sellers can grant you access to Google Analytics. Ask for read-only access to verify site traffic.
4. Schedule a call. Communication is key. The best way to find out more is to speak directly with the seller. For your protection, keep all communication within Flippa.
5. Make the offer on Flippa. We’re here to help. Flippa does not charge buyers and by making an offer on Flippa you’ll get access to our post-sales support team.
1. Agreements & Contracts.
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2. Conduct Due Diligence.
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