About
Abandoned code. Second life. Not a rotting original.
BoredBanana.io is a marketplace for unfinished GitHub projects — AI agents, micro-SaaS stubs, developer tools, templates, scripts. Someone got to 60–80% and stopped. Someone else does not want to start from zero. We make that handoff honest: a scanned vault copy you can buy, or a bunch you can back or help, without pretending this is Flippa for companies.
What this is
The product is salvage. A peel is leftover work with a price, a stack, a last commit date, and a clear “why I stopped.” You are not buying customers, revenue, or a legal entity. You are buying an isolated copy of the code — after a secret scan — plus the rights to that copy.
If the founder is not ready to sell, they can grow a bunch instead: same GitHub scan, same public card, but they keep the original repo and ask for money, hands, or both. After a sale, accepted funding, or accepted work, the project can land on the Fruit Stand — a public lifecycle trail, not a revenue dashboard. Finished software agents that should go to work, not sit as leftover source, belong on the sister floor MindHire.
Why it exists
GitHub is full of half-built things that still run. The usual options are bad: delete the repo, let it rot, or post it on a generic classifieds site where nobody can tell if the .env is in history. We built a shelf for those projects with three rules.
- GitHub is the identity for sellers and vault buyers. Companies can also register an email account with a BU tag — still not anonymous.
- Secrets have to fail the listing. A peel with keys in git history does not go live.
- The original repo stays with the founder. Buyers get a vault copy. Bunch backers get a handshake, not a transfer.
Two doors
Buyout
Drop a Peel → Peel It Off
Founder connects GitHub, picks a repo, passes the scan, writes why it was abandoned and what’s left, sets a price. Publishing freezes a private vault copy. The buyer pays, inspects via a read-only invite for three days, then gets admin on that copy. Listing is free; we take 10% of the sale. Two listed peels can also swap as a Peel Trade — vault copy for vault copy, optional cash.
Co-financing
Grow a Bunch → Toss in / lend a hand
Same scan, no vault sale. Founder asks for funding, help, or both. Backers send a pledge or a role with a note. The founder accepts or declines. A bunch is not equity unless you sign that off-platform. Help offers are free. Founders can also post tasks with a percent of a future peel sale — claim after the contributor terms, no payout until that sale happens. Open work is listed on Side Peels; accepted work shows on Solutions. The founder can post Updates on the card.
Preview mode: no card is charged. A deal still starts, the peel is composted, and the 3-day window runs on the server. Bunch pledges are preview the same way until Stripe.
Who it’s for
- Founders who stopped. You have a repo you still own, you can say honestly why you walked away, and you either want cash for the leftover work or people to finish it with you.
- Buyers who hate greenfield. You want a scanned agent, a SaaS stub, or a tool with commits you can see — not a pitch deck. You will finish the last 20–40%.
- Backers and helpers. You would rather put in money or a few weeks of work than buy the whole thing. Open tasks and free handshakes sit on Side Peels. The founder keeps the repo; you are not purchasing the company.
What we are not
Not Acquire. Not an auction house. Not a job board. Not a silent transfer of someone else’s GitHub. Not automatic handover of domains, databases, or Stripe accounts — those are checkboxes on the card, not magic. Digital goods are not “returned” once cloned; the three-day window is a claim that the code does not match the listing or does not run from the README, reviewed by hand.