Shieldy
Free Telegram anti-spam bot that CAPTCHA-challenged new group members, reaching 20.7M users across 190,621 chats without ever being monetized. Its solo developer sold @shieldy_bot to 1inch for $329,000 in 2021.
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The $329,000 sale price puts it in the top 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 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.
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