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Thanks for the advice. I could spin out the applications in to a new company if I needed to. I have around 40 or so that have been around since 2011.


If they are generating even the slightest bit of revenue, you'll likely find a buyer and will probably be surprised at the multiples people are paying.


Would it be a 2, 5 or 10 year multiple? None of my apps have subscriptions. They are all purchase for $.99 or $1.99 and supported for ... well, 10 years now. I've moved about 144K Units in all.


So everyone is free to set their price, but here is the top 5 listings when I filter to those with >$1000 ARR.

$1k ARR --> listed for $20K

$240 ARR --> listed for $8K

$892 ARR --> listed for $9K

$99 ARR --> listed for $6.5K

$500 ARR --> listed for $15K

Now obviously people can ask for whatever they want and negotiate down, but you can see that multiples are crazy. To put it in perspective, my little app I sold I had made $5 TOTAL, and sold it fo4 $1500 USD and I had people telling me they would pay more after I had sold it. I think there is just a glut of people that want to get into small side gigs/startups that don't have the skills to code one. They see this as a kick start and lots of people can cobble together a few thousand.




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