A blog started for fun in November 2010 covering the latest Microsoft Kinect hacks; it hit 100,000 uniques in its first month and passed a million pageviews by late January. Its owner sold it on Flippa for $12,600 because it was eating time from his real business.
The $12,600 sale price puts it in the lower half of the 570 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 215 Content/Media exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $25,100. 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 4 months. The deal closed through Flippa, one of 162 exits in this database that went the same route. 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 Content/Media exits.
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