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How much is my codebase worth?

Paste a private GitHub repo to get a free instant estimate. If it is a fit, unlock a sharper offer.

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Private repo access is required.Sign in and select it in the GitHub App so we can read private code for this preview. No repo URL, estimate, score, or language breakdown is saved unless you unlock an offer.

Talk to sales

We help you find out what your repo is really worth.

Labs want private, production-shaped code because it contains the parts public examples often miss: architecture, tests, deployment choices, business logic, bad decisions, and the fixes around them.

Our job is to sort through the queue, say no quickly, and route the useful codebases to labs. We hold qualified repos until they are sold and negotiate for the strongest offer we can. You can keep adding repos over time; the dashboard becomes your record of what was checked, rejected, approved, or paid.

This market is already visible: reporting has described a secondary market for failed-startup data and source code. We are making the review path explicit for individual developers.

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    Estimate first

    Paste a repo URL or sign in to pick one. The appraisal preview does not create a submission or save the estimate.

  2. 02

    Review the estimate

    See the baseline value first, then decide whether to answer the codebase questions that unlock the offer.

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    Unlock the offer

    The unlock step asks codebase-specific questions, saves the review record, and gives you a dashboard path to track status.

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    We shop it to labs

    If it clears review, we hold the snapshot and negotiate with AI labs. If a lab buys it, you receive a percentage of the sale. No sale, no payout — and you keep the code either way.

FAQ

  • What do you actually do with my codebase?

    We review submissions, hold qualified codebases, and negotiate with AI labs to license them for model training, evaluation, and coding-agent work. We are not trying to operate the SaaS business — we're matching real engineering work with labs that need it.

  • Is unlocking an offer a sale?

    No. It is a review request. No ownership changes until there is a final offer, you accept it, and payment is made.

  • What gets saved when I get an estimate?

    Nothing with SellCodebase. Getting an estimate does not save the repo URL, estimate, score, language breakdown, or a submission record. We store those details only after you complete the offer-unlock intake.

  • What code is valuable?

    Private failed-startup repos, internal tools, and real product systems with actual architecture, tests, integrations, domain logic, and maintenance history. Small demos, forks, course projects, boilerplate, and mostly generated repos usually get rejected.

  • Do you buy private repos?

    Yes. Private GitHub repos are supported after sign-in. We verify that you control the repo and that you have authority to sell or license the code before anything can move forward.

  • How is the payout determined?

    There is no fixed published rate. Payout for a given submission is a percentage of what a lab actually pays for it. Some submissions never sell — that's the risk of the model. The in-app estimate is a baseline based on language stats; the real offer arrives only if we close a sale, and you can accept or decline it then.

  • Can I keep adding codebases?

    Yes. The dashboard is meant to be a running queue. Unlock one repo, come back later, add more, and keep the status history in one place.