There is a lot of talk in the world of startups on how the IA makes people so productive that they can give rise to a generation of “Unicorn only” -Itack a person for a value of over $ 1 billion.
While a true solo unicorn remains a mythical creature, the Israeli developer Maor Shlomo has provided convincing evidence on Wednesday that the concept may not be impossible.
Shlomo sold his 6 months startup with coding for the Bootstrap Baseup44 atmosphere at Wix for $ 80 million, Wix announced Wednesday. And the agreement was in cash, Wix confirmed to Techcrunch.
Of course, this was not a billion dollars or close to it. And Shlomo was not really solo: he had eight employees, confirmed Wix. They will collectively receive $ 25 million of 80 million dollars as a “loyalty” bonus. Wix refused to provide details on that part of the agreement, as for how long they have to remain in their work to obtain complete payments.
However, the rapid basic increase44 and the impressive sales price were the speech of the Coding community for the atmosphere.
In its six months as an autonomous company, according to the basic 44, it has grown up to 250,000 users, hitting 10,000 users in its first three weeks. Second Shlomo’s posts On X and LinkedIn, the company was profitable, generating a profit of $ 189,000 in May even after covering high costs of token LLM, which also publicly documented.
Base44 spread mainly through word of mouth while Shlomo, a 31 -year -old programmer, shared his construction path on LinkedIn and Twitter. The project began as a lateral company, he said Israeli Ctech technological news site.
“Base44 is an experiment of moon: helping everyone, technicians or not, to create software without coding”, he ” explained on LinkedIn when he launched it to the public.
It is one of the new crops of coding products for the atmosphere designed for non -programmers. Users insert text instructions and the platform creates complete applications, with databases, storage, authentication, analysis and integration. It also supports e-mails, text messages and maps, with a roadmap for greater support for company level security.
Base44 is not unique in this area. Other vibration programs such as Adaptive computer Manage a similar infrastructure job. But the rapid basic increase44 was surprising.
Shlomo was already known in the Israeli startup community through its previous startup, the data analysis company supported by Insight Partners Spear. His brother is also co-founder of a AI Security Assembly, token safety, who has just collected $ 20 million led by a famous capital (previously GGV Capital) and a group of Israeli technological angels.
He quickly obtained partnership agreements for base44 with large Israeli technological companies such as Etoro and SimilarWeb.
After publishing on his decision to use Claude Llm of Anthropic through AWS instead of Openai-Principally for reasons of cost for performance-Amazon, he invited Base44 to Demo in an event Tel Aviv Aws last month, which last month, which last month, that last month, that last month, which last month last month, that last month, last month, last month, last month Documented shlomo.
“Crazy F *** Ing so far”, Shlomo Posted on LinkedIn when the news of the acquisition is announced. Despite the growth and profits-o really for this-he sold his company still in Bootstrap because “the scale and the volume we need is not something in which we can grow organically … if we were able to arrive so much organically, wrapped, I am excited to see our new rhythm now that we have all the resources in place”, he wrote.
For his part, Wix has collected a proven platform, rapidly growing and local coding for a song relating to his youth. Openai paid $ 3 billion for Windsurf, which was founded in 2021.
Wix, of course, offers a construction of websites without code that seems to be professionally designed. The addition of a profitable LLM coding product to its offers is a logical move.
It was not possible to immediately reach Shlomo for an additional comment.
