There is a lot of talk in the world at the beginning of how AI makes individuals very productive it can give a generation of “Solo Unicorn” – A person companies worth more than $ 1 billion.
While an actual solo unicorn remains a mythical neratures, Israel gave MORE SHLOMO who presses evidence on Wednesday that the concept cannot be done.
Shlomo sold his 6-month-old, blocked bibe-coding startup base44 on Wix at $ 80 million, WIX Office has partnered Wednesday. And the agreement is cash, verified by the TechCrunch Wix.
True, it is not a billion dollars or close to it. And Shlomo is never a real solo – he has eight employees, verified by WIX. They collectively receive $ 25 million to $ 80 million as a “stopping” bonus. Wix refused to give details of that part of the agreement, as long as long as they will continue their jobs to get the full charge.
However, rapid increase in base44 price and the impressive selling price is talk to Community Vibe-coding.
In its six months as a solitary company, base44 reported to grow 250,000 users, hit 10,000 users in the first three weeks. According to Shlomo Posts In X and LinkedIn, the company is useful, producing $ 189,000 in May even after covering high costs of LLM token, which he also documents publicly.
Base44 spreads mostly by mouth word as shlomo, a 31-year-old programmer, shares his journey to LinkedIn and Twitter. The project began as partial activity, he told Israel in Tech News Site CTECH.
“Base44 is an experiment with Moonshot – helps everyone, technical or not, build software without coding,” he LinkedIn Explained When he launched it in public.
This is one of the newest crops of vibe-coding products designed for non-programmer. Users enter text prompts, and platform builds complete applications, with database, storage, authentication, participation, and participate. It also supports email, texting, and maps, with a roadmap for further grade-grade security support.
Base44 is not unique in this area. Other vibe coders want Adaptive Computer handle similar work infrastructure. But the rapid climb of the base44 is amazed at all the same.
Shlomo has already known the community to start Israel through his previous start, the Insight-backed partners spear. His brother is also a co-founder of a AI Security Startup, Token Security, That raises $ 20 million led by famous capital (former GGV capital) and a set of angelic ancient prophets.
He quickly gained agreements in cooperation for Base44 with major Israeli companies like Etoro and similar.
After posting about his decision to use anthropic’s Claude Llm through aws instead of Models by Openai – Mostly for cost-per-performance reasons – Amazon invited base44 to demo at a Tel Aviv aws event last month, which Shlomo wrote.
“Crazy F *** journey so far,” Shlomo Posted on LinkedIn to advertise the news news. Despite growth and profits – or actually because of this – he sells his bootstraps company because the “number we need to organize now that we have a new place in place,” he wrote.
For its part, Wixes selected a proven, growing grown, local vibe-coding platform for a relative song because of his youth. Opuii pays $ 3 billion for Windsurf, constructed by 2021.
Of course, the Wix, offer website website building to look professional designed. Adding a useful product to LLM Vibe-coding of its offerings is a logical step.
Shlomo is not immediately reached for additional comment.
