DotMarket
👤 Kevin Jourdan (Ran flipping courses 2015-2017, sold about 200 sites by 2019 - launched DotMarket with a ready-made French buyer network.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
A two-sided marketplace where French owners sell content sites, stores, and SaaS to 24,000+ vetted local buyers.
Will it work? · our read
Local trust wins. A niche, transactional business with a hard limit - but Jourdan owns French website M&A because the incumbents never bothered to translate their model.
01How the money moves
French owner lists a site, store, or SaaS
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DotMarket vets it, matches local buyers
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Deal closes - DotMarket takes about 10%
02The numbers
$360K/yrStatedfounder-stated (2022)
2022-10
Revenue and GMV are founder-stated (2021-2022); GMV is turnover, not revenue. Starter Story
About $360K/yr - founder-stated (Starter Story, 2022).
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Starter Story - DotMarket: $30K/mo, $2.9M GMV, bootstrapped (founder interview)Niche Pursuits ep. 183 - Kevin Jourdan on building DotMarket and the French-market gapMake Ur Journey - how Kevin built France's top digital M&A marketplace (220+ deals/yr)DotMarket - official site (commission and buyer-access model)
Revenue ($30K/mo, about $360K/yr) and $2.9M 2021 GMV are founder-stated in the Starter Story interview (he targeted $500K for 2022) - STATED, not audited; GMV is transaction volume, not revenue, and is labeled as such. The "about 10%" success fee is founder-stated; DotMarket's current site cites 6% marketplace / 12.5% M&A plus an annual buyer-access fee. Scale figures (220+ deals/yr, 24,000+ buyers) come from DotMarket / Make Ur Journey and are not independently verified. Bootstrapped ("no funds, no loans") and the Empire-Flippers-ignored-France gap are founder-stated; the localization-as-moat framing is [our read]. No drama invented - this won on spotting an underserved geography and arriving first. We never score you.