Selling a closed company's codebase

SimpleClosure says companies listing on AssetHub have put up close to 500M lines of code in 3,000 repositories. Those are listings, not completed sales.

Ten years of history is not required. The crypto startup MIT Technology Review described lasted roughly two and a half years and still received about $25,000 for its codebase.

Only code your own team wrote counts. In SimpleClosure's experience, roughly 37% of raw code vanished after removing third-party libraries, generated files and duplicates. A buyer's tally will likely be lower than what your dashboard shows.

Bigger is not automatically better. Tests and documentation may count for more than raw line totals, and genuine code review discussions raise the value.

• [Grepped](/sell-your-data/buyers/grepped): takes codebases with messages, documents and tickets, through read-only access to sources you approve. No stated headcount minimum.
• [SimpleClosure](/sell-your-data/buyers/simpleclosure): as part of shutting a company down, it sells the code to AI labs and other tech firms.
• [Mercor](/sell-your-data/buyers/mercor): lists GitHub among the tools it takes.

Code usually sells best with the tickets and chat that explain why it was written.

• Keep the GitHub or GitLab organization paid and intact
• Remove secrets, keys and credentials, or ask the buyer how they handle them
• Check licenses on any third-party or client-owned code
• Confirm the company, not a contractor or client, owns the code
• Note years of history, number of contributors and test coverage