SIX-MONTH-OLD, SOLO-OWNED VIBE CODER BASE44 SELLS TO WIX FOR $80M CASH

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Israeli developer Maor Shlomo recently sold his six-month-old, bootstrapped vibe-coding startup, Base44, to Wix for $80 million cash. His eight employees will collectively receive $25 million of the $80 million as a 'retention' bonus. Base44 grew to 250,000 users in six months. It generated $189,000 in profit in May even after covering high LLM token costs. The startup grew mostly through word of mouth.