Six-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

There are a lot of discussions in the world of startups of the way AI makes individuals so productive that he could give birth to a generation of “Solo Unicorns” – Companies of a person worth more than a billion dollars.

While a real solo unicorn remains a mythical creature, the Israeli developer Maor Shlomo provided convincing evidence on Wednesday that the concept may not be impossible.

Shlomo sold its 6 -month startup 44 -month -old base and coding for atmosphere in Wix for 80 million dollars, Wix announcement Wednesday. And the agreement was in cash, confirmed Wix to Techcrunch.

Admittedly, it was not a billion dollars or nearby. And Shlomo was not really solo – he had eight employees, confirmed Wix. They will collectively receive $ 25 million out of $ 80 million as a “retention” bonus. WIX refused to give details on this part of the agreement, as how long they need to stay in their work to obtain complete payments.

However, the basic rapid rise 44 and the impressive sale price were the speech of the Ambient coding community.

During its six months as an autonomous company, Base44 would have reached 250,000 users, reaching 10,000 users in its first three weeks. According to Shlomo’s messages On X and LinkedIn, the company was profitable, generating $ 189,000 in profit in May even after covering high LLM tokens costs, which it also documented publicly.

Base44 is mainly propagated by word of mouth while Shlomo, a 31 -year -old programmer, shared his construction trip to LinkedIn and Twitter. The project began as a secondary company, he said Israeli technological information site CTECH.

“Base44 is a moon experience Explained on LinkedIn When he launched it to the public.

This is one of the new room coding products designed for non-programmers. Users enter the text prompts and the platform create complete applications, with the database, storage, authentication, analysis and integration. It also supports emails, SMS and cards, with a roadmap for more business quality security support.

Base44 is not unique in this area. Other room coders like Adaptive computer Manage similar infrastructure work. But the basic rapid climb44 was still amazing.

Shlomo was already known in the Israeli startup community thanks to its previous start-up, the Insight Partners Data Analysis Company Spear. His brother is also co-founder of a AI security startup, tokens safety, which has just collected $ 20 million led by notable capital (formerly GGV Capital) and a pile of Israeli tech angels.

He quickly concluded partnership agreements for base44 with large Israeli and similar Israeli and similar technological companies.

After having published on his decision to use Claude LLM from Anthropic via AWS instead of OpenAi models – mainly for cost reasons by performance – Amazon invited Base44 to demonstrate an event such as Aviv AWS last month, which, which, which Documented shlomo.

“Journey Fot Posted on LinkedIn when the acquisition is acquired. Despite growth and profits -or really because of this -he sold his company still advanced because “the scale and the volume we need is not something in which we can become organically … If we could get so far away, kicked, I am delighted to see our new rhythm now that we have all the resources in place”, he wrote.

For its part, Wix picked up a proven and fast-growing local coding platform for a relative song because of its youth. Openai paid $ 3 billion for windsurfing, which was founded in 2021.

Wix, of course, offers a creation of websites without code that seems designed by professionals. The addition of a profitable LLM mood coding to its offers is a logical decision.

Shlomo could not be immediately attached to additional comments.