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Flickr Slidr

OtherOne-off Sales 2008

A weekend-built web tool, about 350 lines of code, that turned any Flickr photoset into an embeddable slideshow. Two months after launch it got popular and its creator sold it for $3,000 on the SitePoint marketplace, domain included.

Financial Data

Asking Price
Undisclosed
Sale Price
$3,000 USD
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
N/A
Annual Revenue (ARR)
N/A
Monthly Profit
N/A
Profit Multiple
N/A
Revenue Multiple
N/A

Exit Analysis

The $3,000 sale price puts it in the bottom quarter of the 608 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000. 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 80 Other exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $1,900. 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 2 months. The deal closed through SitePoint. 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.

See how this compares across the market on our market stats page, or browse more Other exits.

Exit Timeline

Founded
2008
Time to Exit
2 months
Platform
SitePoint

Founder

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Paul Stamatiou
Source
Hacker News