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👤 Alexander Isora (Solo design-dev: won Product Hunt #1, built in public, made a genuinely simpler builder, and sold before the market commoditized.)🌐 siteisora.me𝕏LinkedIn
A solo, bootstrapped landing-page builder that hit $16K MRR, then sold for $800K - half cash, half acquirer stock.
Will it work? · our read
Buyable by design. But only $400K was cash. The other half is Mars stock in a tiny private startup, and he took a pay cut to stay on as CEO. Great exit, or a long bet on the buyer.
01How the money moves
A startup needs a site, no coder around
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Drag-and-drop builder, live in minutes
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About 1,000 paid $8-28/mo at the 2022 sale = $16K MRR; under the buyer, list price now runs $14-350/mo ($9-250 yearly)
02The numbers
$16K/moStatedMRR at sale (2022)
2022
The other $400K of the $800K was Mars equity, not cash. TheyGotAcquired
$16K MRR at sale; sold for $800K, about 4.2x ARR.
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isora.me - founder essay "I sold my SaaS for $800,000"TheyGotAcquired - $16K MRR, sold for $800KUnicorn Platform blog - acquired by Mars (first-party)John Rush (buyer) - "acquired for $0.8M... grew 10x"Indie Hackers - Unicorn Platform $800k sale interview
Sale price $800K ($400K cash + $400K Mars equity) is founder-stated (isora.me, unicornplatform.com). $16K MRR and about 1,000 paying customers come from TheyGotAcquired (Jan 2022), consistent with his interviews but not independently audited - revenue is STATED-disclosed, not filed. The about 4.2x ARR multiple is our calculation. It sold direct to John Rush's Mars, not via a marketplace. The reason for the deal structure - fearing product neglect, citing Launchaco as a cautionary tale, wanting a buyer who shared the vision rather than the highest bidder - is founder-stated on isora.me. The read that this was also "settling" after being exhausted and solo is [our read]. Total user counts differ across sources: TheyGotAcquired states about 25,000, the Indie Hackers interview states 41,000 at time of sale; we use TGA's figure here for consistency but flag the disagreement. John Rush separately claims about 10x growth post-deal (unaudited buyer claim). We never score you.