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Aesop Interactive

Developer ToolsFreemium WordPress plugin 2015

Aesop Interactive built Aesop Story Engine, a free WordPress plugin for building immersive visual longform stories, plus the Editus frontend editor and Story.AM. Solo founder Nick Haskins sold the company in November 2015 to an anonymous US East Coast buyer for close to his $100K asking price.

Financial Data

Asking Price
Undisclosed
Sale Price
$100,000 USD
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
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Annual Revenue (ARR)
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Monthly Profit
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Exit Analysis

The $100,000 sale price puts it in the upper half of the 623 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $21,000. Most indie acquisitions cluster well under the headline numbers founders read about, which is exactly why a real distribution is more useful than an average.

This database tracks 211 Developer Tools exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $25,000. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.

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Exit Timeline

Exit Date
November 2015
Platform
Direct

Tech Stack

WordPressPHP

Founder

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Nick Haskins
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