By trade
A link in bio for developers
Sell the boilerplate you already wrote, from a page you can put in a bio in thirty seconds.
The usual mistake
The template you extracted from your last three projects is worth money, and the usual home for it is a marketplace that takes ten percent forever. That is a lot of margin for a checkout page and a download link — which is all a zip file actually needs.
What developers sell here
Digital files, one fixed price, delivered automatically.
Starter kits and boilerplates
The repo you keep re-creating, zipped once. Buyers get it by email the moment they pay.
Component and template packs
UI kits, config sets, dotfiles — small files, high margin, no support burden if you scope them honestly.
A technical guide or teardown
The write-up of how you solved something. It sells to the same people who buy the code.
How to lay the page out
- 1Featured offer: the kit, with its price and a buy button.
- 2Links: GitHub, your writing, the docs.
- 3Lead capture: developers who will buy version two.
Questions people ask first
Can I generate license keys or gate updates?
No, and this is the honest limit for software specifically. There is no key generation, no activation and no way to charge for updates — a purchase here is one file, once. If licensing is central to your product, a tool built for it (Lemon Squeezy, Paddle) fits better, and they also act as merchant of record for the tax side.
How do buyers get updates?
Publish a new version and tell your list. There is no update channel, which is exactly why the previous answer matters before you choose this.
Start free, sell when you are ready
The free page takes a minute and never expires. Selling costs $12 a month and 0% of what you make.