Iconbuddy

Developer ToolsFreemium + lifetime deal 2023

Search engine indexing 100k+ open-source SVG icons for designers and developers, with Figma, VS Code and Framer plugins. Creator Fayaz Ahmed sold it in July 2023 for $4,000 when it had no revenue and no traffic; the buyer grew it to roughly $6k/month within nine months.

Financial Data

Asking Price

Undisclosed

Sale Price

$4,000 USD

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Exit Analysis

The $4,000 sale price puts it in the lower half 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 210 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.

From founding to sale took 1.0 years. 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 Developer Tools exits.