About The Blue Ocean Code

The Blue Ocean Code exists for one kind of owner: someone who built real software, stopped running it, and still holds the source code. Through this site, Odys AI Labs buys that code for cash: one agreed price, paid on transfer, with no earn-outs. Nothing changes hands before a written agreement is signed, and we never ask anyone to install or run anything on their computer.

Who is behind this site?

Three names appear on this site, and they fit inside each other.

Odys Global operates multiple business units, projects, media channels and companies, among them Odys Marketplace, Odys iGaming, Odys Mentors, Odys Events and Odys Podcast. Its team works remotely around the world, with a few offices on different continents.

Odys Blue Ocean is the business unit, and the direction the company has taken. It is a family of services, each with its own site and each built for one specific problem. The slogan says it plainly: “Your blue-ocean growth partner, globally.” The Blue Ocean Code is one service in that family. When this site says “we”, it means the Odys Blue Ocean team.

Who buys the code?

The buyer is Odys AI Labs, the research and development arm of Odys. It works on AI training and R&D with real-world software, and it buys code for that purpose: models learn to read, write and fix software by studying how real teams built real products.

Odys AI Labs uses the code it buys for AI training and R&D, after the code has been cleaned. We may also work on it with research partners, and the written agreement sets out exactly what rights transfer. Three things do not change: we never use the seller’s brand or name, we never relaunch the product as theirs, and we do not publish who we buy from.

What The Blue Ocean Code does for owners

Software products end for ordinary reasons. A startup runs out of runway, a side business stops being worth the evenings, an agency’s own product never finds customers, a company retires a sunset product or inherits a repository from an old acquisition. The product ends, but the work does not lose its value. The code, its git history, its docs and its tests still record how a team solved a real problem.

We buy the source code of real products: web apps, mobile apps, SaaS, platforms and marketplaces, games, backends and APIs, and internal tools. Commit history, pull requests and reviews, docs and tests, ticket exports, design files and documented processes add to it. The code qualifies when:

• the product is shut down, abandoned, obsolete or never launched;
• it makes no money today (still online or offline are both fine);
• it is original code written by your own team, not snippets;
• it is a complete product;
• you own the rights or can sign for the company that does.

Who owns code written by co-founders, employees or contractors depends on the contracts and the country. This is general information, not legal advice; a qualified lawyer can confirm the position for your case, and the guide on who owns the code explains the usual situations.

We pass on software still making money, client work you have no rights to, open-source forks, templates and tutorial projects, and repositories that are mostly copied libraries or generated code. We never take databases, user records, customer data or chat logs, and we never use your brand or name or relaunch the product as yours. If you are unsure where your code stands, the free code value check gives a first answer in a couple of minutes.

If the old product also had a website that still gets visitors, our sister service TheBlueOceanWebsites.com buys websites of former businesses.

How we work with owners

The path is short. You fill in a 60-second form with no code. We have a short call. We review the code based on what you tell us, and if it is a fit we make a cash offer. There is no obligation at any point. If you accept, we sign a written agreement, then we help you remove secrets, keys and personal data, then the code is transferred and you are paid. The guide to how selling your old code works, from first message to payment walks through each stage.

A few promises hold for every deal:

• A written agreement comes first. No code changes hands before both sides have signed.
• We never ask you to install or run anything. A fair buyer does not need your code, or access to your machine, before a contract. Never run a stranger’s script on a computer that holds your code or credentials.
• We help with the cleaning. Secrets, keys and personal data come out before transfer, and we help you do it.
• Confidential. We do not publish who we buy from.
• We tell you if it is not a fit. A clear no, with the reason, is more useful to you than a slow maybe.

How we value a codebase is explained on the call. The checks we run, and the three outcomes they lead to, are set out on how we evaluate a codebase.

Research and development

What the Blue Ocean family has in common is close to twenty years of research and development at Odys Global. The Blue Ocean Code applies that work to a new question: how the code of products that ended can become training data for AI, with the owner paid in cash and protected by a written agreement. The full list of services is on the Blue Ocean family page, kept current as new ones are released.

Alex Drew

Alex Drew is the founder and CEO of Odys Global and the creator of Odys Blue Ocean. He has spent close to twenty years in the field, with research and development at the center of how the company works, and he has turned that research into the services of the Blue Ocean family, including The Blue Ocean Code. He writes the owner guides on this site. Outside work, he has a background in martial arts. The comparison pages, owner situations and reference pages are written and maintained by the Odys Blue Ocean team.

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How to get in touch

The only contact route is the short form on the homepage: send us a few details for a free code valuation. Tell us what the product was, roughly how big the codebase is and who owns the rights. We read what you send before we reply, so the first conversation is about your code, not about us.