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Base44

One person, six months, $80M in cash. No investors, no co-founder.

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Time to build
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Six months from founding to an $80M all-cash acquisition. · source

Revenue
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No public source found for this figure.

What it is

Base44 turns a prompt into a working full-stack app — database, auth, hosting included. Maor Shlomo built and owned all of it himself.

Six months after founding it, with eight employees, 250,000 users and $189,000 of profit in a single month, he sold it to Wix for $80 million in cash as the sole shareholder. The earn-outs have since taken the total past $150 million.

Timeline

  • 1 Dec 2024
    Founded, solo.
  • 31 May 2025
    $189,000 in profit in one month.
  • 18 Jun 2025
    Acquired by Wix for $80M in cash. 250,000 users, eight employees.
  • 4 Aug 2026
    Earn-outs take the total consideration past $150M.

Founder

Maor Shlomo
Founder, sole shareholder

Previously co-founded Explorium, a data analytics company backed by Insight Partners.