Feather
👤 Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu (A senior engineer who ships polished products solo and fast — he took Feather to profit alone, then grew SiteGPT past $15K MRR.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
Bhanu built Feather alone, kept it profitable, and let it run. Two years in, a serial acquirer paid $250K to own it.
Will it work? · our read
Clean and buyable. Feather won't 100x. But it became what most side projects never do — an asset someone paid to own. Profitable, focused, founder-independent: that is buyable.
01How the money moves
Writer drafts posts in Notion
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Feather renders a fast SEO blog
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Owner pays $26-199/mo to publish
02The numbers
$250K exitStatedsold to Tibo, June 2024
Jun 2024
Milestones on the way to a clean $250K exit. Starter Story
About $6K MRR at sale; the $250K exit is about 3.5x run-rate ARR.
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Starter Story — Feather breakdown: $250k exit, $50k ARR, 191 paid customers, launched May 2022.Tibo (buyer) on X: confirms the $250,000 acquisition and later growth to $20k MRR.The Bootstrapped Founder: interview with Tibo, the acquirer.Founder Stories: Bhanu on selling Feather for $250k.feather.so/pricing: current $26-199/mo tiers.
$250,000 sale price stated publicly by both the buyer (Tibo, on X) and the seller (Bhanu, on the Founder Stories podcast) — first-party STATED, so verified. Revenue at sale is approximate: Starter Story reports about $6,000 MRR before the acquisition (and $50k ARR / 191 paid customers at 10 months), while Tibo's tweet cites roughly $9k MRR at acquisition; I led with the checkable Starter Story figures. The about 3.5x run-rate multiple is our derivation. Feather is now owned by Tibo, who has grown it to about $20k MRR; this card describes the asset as sold in June 2024. We never score you.