How Itay Elgazar took an AI app from zero to nearly $7K MRR in two months, then sold at the top for $350,000

In this post: How Itay Elgazar sold his AI full-stack app builder, Superdev, for $350,000 just six months after launch.

Best for: Solo and small-team builders with a product that is growing right now, deciding whether and when to sell.

You'll learn: Why listing while revenue is still climbing creates a competitive bidding process, and the three things (preparation, differentiation, timing) to have ready before any buyer asks.

Itay Elgazar started building Superdev in February 2025 on a single bet: that "vibe coding" was about to explode. He was right. Within two months the AI app builder was doing just under $7K in monthly recurring revenue. Within six, it was sold for $350,000. The part most builders miss is that he sold while it was still growing.

By the end of this you will know why selling at the top beats selling at the bottom, and the three things Itay had ready before a single buyer asked. All of them are things you can prepare this week, long before you ever list.

Who: Itay Elgazar, an Amsterdam-based developer and open-source builder (he created the open-source AI toolkit Pezzo) who had already sold one small project, Reclips, through Acquire.com.

What: Superdev, an AI tool that generates full-stack apps (front-end and back-end) from a single interface. Launched February 2025, scaled to just below $7K MRR in about two months, sold for $350,000 through Acquire.com in August 2025.

Why it worked: He listed while growth was still visible, walked in with clean numbers and docs already prepared, and let a competitive process (five offers in two weeks) set the price instead of begging one buyer for an offer.

Itay was not a first-time seller. Before Superdev he built and sold Reclips, a smaller project, through Acquire.com. That deal, in his own framing, did not change his life but it changed his perspective. He learned what buyers actually look at, what slows a negotiation to a crawl, and what founders routinely forget until it is too late. He went into Superdev already knowing the exit was a process, not an accident.

He is also a genuine builder, not a prompt-and-pray operator. He had previously released Pezzo, an open-source AI development toolkit. So when AI coding tools started flooding the market in early 2025, he could see the gap clearly: the tools were everywhere, but most were fragmented or too complex. Developers wanted speed and simplicity. Superdev was his answer. One place to generate a full-stack app in minutes instead of stitching five services together.

Itay made a directional bet that the concept of vibe coding, describing what you want and letting AI write the code, was about to go mainstream. He started in February. The bet paid off fast.

The first signups came from Reddit. Developers tried it, gave feedback, and kept coming back. Then it spread the way products do when the timing is right. Influencers on TikTok and YouTube started posting short clips of Superdev building an app in minutes. Those demos reached thousands of viewers and did what no ad budget could. They went viral.

Dozens of early customers became hundreds. Recurring revenue doubled in a few months. By his own public account, Superdev crossed just below $7K MRR within roughly two months of launch. He did not buy that growth. He positioned for it and let the product sell itself.

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At this point Itay faced the choice every builder with a hot product eventually faces. He could double down and try to scale Superdev into something much bigger, or he could sell while the growth was clearly visible and the market was hot. He chose to sell.

Read that again, because it is the opposite of what almost everyone does. Most founders sell when they are tired, stalled, or out of money, the exact moment their leverage is gone. Itay sold at the top, on purpose, while the chart still pointed up and buyers could see the momentum for themselves. A rising line is the best salesperson you will ever have.

This is the whole lesson.

When Itay listed Superdev on Acquire.com in August, interest came fast. Within two weeks, five Letters of Intent landed in his inbox. About a week and a half later the right buyer stepped forward and the deal closed. Clean, quick, final. $350,000 for a business he had started six months earlier.

Five offers is not luck. It is what happens when a desirable asset meets a prepared seller and a competitive process. The price was not set by one buyer's lowball meeting a founder's desperation. It was set by five buyers competing in the open, which is the only reliable way a small business gets a real multiple. At roughly $7K MRR, $350,000 lands near a 4x annual-revenue valuation, the upper band for a bootstrapped product, and he got there because buyers were bidding against each other.

Underneath the outcome were three things Itay had ready before anyone asked, drawn straight from his own post-exit lessons:

Preparation. His numbers and documentation were ready before buyers requested them. Nothing kills trust and momentum like a founder scrambling to assemble financials mid-negotiation.

Differentiation. Superdev had a clear, one-sentence reason to exist: full-stack apps from a single AI interface. A buyer could grasp the value in seconds.

Timing. He sold while growth was visible, which is exactly what gives a seller options. Visible momentum is leverage. A flat or falling chart is the opposite.

List while the line is still going up, and walk in with your numbers already done. The founder who prepares the data room before there is a buyer, and sells into momentum instead of out of exhaustion, is the one who gets a competitive process and a real price. The exit is not the reward for surviving. It is a move you make from strength.

For Itay, the sale was not an ending. It gave him resources and freedom, and he is already eyeing the next build with bigger ambition. In his framing, exits are not about closing doors. They are about opening new ones. He said the quiet part out loud on X (@elgazar_itay): he sold Superdev for $350k, started it back in February believing vibe coding was going to explode, and was proven right.

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P.S.

Itay sold while Superdev was still climbing. Most builders wait until the climb is over, then wonder why nobody is bidding. If your product is growing right now, that is not the reason to hold. It might be the reason to start preparing.