Polish-built audio-to-text transcription SaaS (Laravel and Flask on AWS Transcribe) shipped as an MVP in about a month of after-work evenings. It reached roughly 30 registered users and almost no recurring revenue before being listed on SaaSPlace.io and sold in August 2020 to a Japanese buyer for $1,250.
The $1,250 sale price puts it in the bottom quarter of the 547 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 132 AI/ML exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $15,000. 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.
From founding to sale took 1 months. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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