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👤 Yahia Bakour (He was building the same app, so he knew exactly what the rival lacked. He offered to fix it and was made cofounder.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
He was building a rival stock-alert app. Instead of racing it, he fixed theirs and took a cofounder seat.
Will it work? · our read
Sold on time. Half a million for a B2C alert app is a good outcome, not a fortune. The buyer got a live product with paying users; the founders got out. Revenue was never disclosed.
01How the money moves
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02The numbers
$500,000 exitEstimaterevenue never disclosed
2023
The $100 MRR is the starting point when Yahia joined, before 2019. Trader and rating counts are live figures on the site today, three years after the sale, so they include growth under the new owner. stockalarm.io
Sold on Acquire.com in 2023 after three months on market; grown from $100 MRR.
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Acquire.com - founder interview write-up: sold in 2023 for $500,000, grown from $100 MRR after three months on market.stockalarm.io - live site: 295,000+ traders, 7,000+ App Store ratings, 65k+ assets tracked.Apple App Store - Bronze/Silver/Gold tiers, $4.99-19.99/mo ($53.99-164.99/yr).Apple lookup API - Stock Alarm, LLC; released 17 Jul 2019; v14.5.0 on 15 Jul 2026; 4.77 from 7,261 ratings.
Stock Alarm never disclosed revenue, so the headline is the sale price, not turnover. The $500,000 and the $100 MRR starting point come from Acquire.com's write-up of its own podcast interview with Yahia Bakour; Acquire brokered the deal, so it is a first party to it, but I read the article text and did not listen to the audio. The buyer was not named and no multiple was disclosed, so revenue at sale is unknown. The 295,000+ traders and 7,000+ ratings are current figures on the live site (Jul 2026), three years after the exit, so they include growth under the new owner, not the number at sale. Pricing and the 4.77 from 7,261 rating come from Apple's own listing and lookup API, read as raw bytes. Acquire's article dates the meme-stock wave to 2020 while the GameStop squeeze was January 2021, so I left the year off. Cofounder Morgan has no surname given and no verified profile, so he is not linked. The LinkedIn URL is the one Acquire published; LinkedIn returns 999 to automated requests, so I could not open it. Rival bars are our compressed reach read from rating counts, not revenue. We never score you.