Uptime monitoring service built solo by full-stack developer Victor. A buyer reached out through the landing page chat widget and acquired it in 2020, roughly 14 months after the idea started; the undisclosed price covered the founder's development costs.
This database tracks 190 Developer Tools exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $23,000. 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 1.2 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.
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