Zuev VPN App
Deliberately unbranded Android VPN app built in about three hours to bypass the Ukrainian block on VK, Yandex and Odnoklassniki; it grew to 170,000 daily active users. An inbound buyer offered $50,000 in 2017 and the solo developer accepted on the spot.
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The $50,000 sale price puts it in the upper 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 76 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $4,900. 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.
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