Superdev: Revenue, sale and how it was built
Superdev (AI app builder that turns a text description into a full-stack web app, Netherlands): Sold for US$350K, August 2025. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: 1 founder named (Itay Elgazar); no source names a co-founder or employees or gives a headcount. Launched February 2025; sold 6 months after launch.Added 25 October 2026
- Outcome
- Sold for US$350K, August 2025
- Evidence
- D reported, not verified
- Launch
- February 2025
- Status
- Sold, 6 months after launch
- Team
- 1 founder named (Itay Elgazar); no source names a co-founder or employees or gives a headcount
- Outside funding
- None disclosed; Acquire.com calls it bootstrapped
- Main channel
- Creators and short videos
What is not verified
The sale price, US$350,000, rests on one source: the newsletter AI & No-Code Exits of 26 June 2026, published ten months after the sale, which says the founder (@elgazar_itay) stated the price on X. The newsletter does not link or date that post, and this page did not read it, because X requires a login. Acquire.com, which hosted the sale, published the story, a video and a podcast on 16 September 2025 and gave no price, only "life-changing". Their standard closing text mentions "350,000+ buyers" on Acquire.com, a different number that a reader should not confuse with the price. The figure of just below US$7,000 a month in recurring revenue comes from the same newsletter only. A reader could look for the founder's X post itself, the Acquire.com listing, the podcast audio, or a statement from the buyer. The headline number is grade D: one claim or one estimate, with no second source. Aiolum shows it because the story is useful, and marks it so that it is not mistaken for a verified figure.
Superdev was an AI app builder: a web service in which a person types what an app should do and a large language model writes the code. Its pitch was full-stack generation, meaning both the front end (the screens the user sees) and the back end (the server code, database, login and storage behind them) from one chat window, so the user does not connect five separate services. Its archived home page of July 2025 says: "Build full-stack apps in seconds" and "Databases, auth, storage, and emails are already wired into your app."
Itay Elgazar, a developer based in Amsterdam according to the newsletter cited below, who had earlier sold a small project called Reclips through Acquire.com, launched Superdev in February 2025. According to Acquire.com's own story about the deal, published on 16 September 2025, the product gained hundreds of paying customers within months, he listed it on Acquire.com in August, five letters of intent (written, non-binding purchase offers) arrived within two weeks, and a buyer closed the deal in about a week and a half. Acquire.com gave no price. On 26 June 2026 the newsletter AI & No-Code Exits reported that the founder said on X that he sold Superdev for US$350,000, and that it had reached just below US$7,000 a month in recurring revenue.
The price rests on that one newsletter, which describes the founder's X post but does not link or date it, so the evidence grade is D. The archived home pages also do not fit the newsletter's revenue timeline: in mid-May 2025, about three months after the launch, the site was a closed-beta waitlist with 312 people on it. By December 2025 the new owner had renamed the product Buildy, and superdev.build now redirects to buildy.ai. The page also shows earlier app builders in the Loot Drop database that failed.
How much did Superdev make, and what was it sold for?
Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.
| Fact | Value | Grade | How we know | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sale price, August 2025 | US$350,000 | D | AI & No-Code Exits newsletter, 26 June 2026: "sold for $350,000 through Acquire.com in August 2025". It says the founder stated it on X (@elgazar_itay) but gives no link or date. Not confirmed by the buyer or by Acquire.com. | [1] |
| Sale process | listed on Acquire.com in August 2025; five letters of intent within two weeks; a buyer closed in less than a week and a half | C | Acquire.com blog and podcast, 16 September 2025, written from an interview with the founder. They call the sale a "life-changing, clean exit" and give no price and no buyer name. | [2, 3, 4] |
| Monthly recurring revenue before the sale | just below US$7,000 | D | Same newsletter only: "scaled to just below $7K MRR in about two months". Not verified, and the mid-May 2025 waitlist page (next rows) does not fit a two-month timeline from a February launch. Acquire.com says only that recurring revenue "doubled in just a few months". | [1, 2, 6] |
| Price as a multiple of yearly revenue | about 4.2 times | calc | Calculated: US$350,000 divided by US$84,000 (US$7,000 times 12). Both inputs are grade D. The newsletter itself writes "near a 4x annual-revenue valuation". | [1] |
| Customers before the sale | hundreds of paying customers | C | Acquire.com blog and the YouTube description of its podcast episode. No exact count. | [2, 4] |
| Launch | February 2025 | C | Acquire.com: "In February 2025, he launched a tool that promised ... a simple way to build full-stack apps with AI." | [2, 4] |
| Home page, 3 April 2025 | a site with Features, Templates, Pricing and Docs links and a "New v2.0" label | C | Wayback Machine copy. Two feature texts still name "GenFast" and the footer links to a GitHub account named genfast that no longer exists. No source explains the name. | [5] |
| Home page, 15 May 2025 | closed beta with "312 users" on the waitlist and "100 invites every week" | C | Wayback Machine copy, about three months after the launch. The page pitched "custom business software" and said "We're currently in closed beta." | [6] |
| Product updates, June 2025 | two-way GitHub sync on 12 June; a documentation site on 17 June | C | Superdev documentation changelog. | [8] |
| Home page, 16 July 2025 | public product: "Build full-stack apps in seconds", "Start for free" | C | Wayback Machine copy, about one month before the listing. Aimed at solo developers, founders, product teams and designers. | [7] |
| How customers arrived | Reddit first, then demo videos by TikTok and YouTube creators; no paid ads | C | Acquire.com blog, from the founder's account. No source says whether the creators were paid. | [2, 4] |
| Outside funding | none disclosed | C | Acquire.com titles the podcast episode "The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing Exit". | [3, 4] |
| Founder's earlier exit | Reclips, a smaller project, sold through Acquire.com | C | Acquire.com blog. No price given. | [2] |
| Name after the sale | Buildy (buildy.ai), by December 2025 | C | The Wayback copy of docs.superdev.build of 10 December 2025 says "Meet Buildy.ai". On 25 October 2026 superdev.build redirects to buildy.ai, and the Buildy home page still loads images from api.superdev.build. | [9, 10] |
| Time from launch to the sale | 6 months | calc | Calculated: February 2025 to August 2025. | [1, 2] |
How to read this table: a grade D value appears in one source only, here a newsletter that retells the founder's X post, with no buyer, marketplace or payment-processor confirmation. A grade C value is a statement by the company, the founder or the marketplace that hosted the sale, including archived copies of the company's own pages. A grade B value is visible in public page source. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.
| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free (Superdev, July 2025) | 0 | 0 | "Start for free" on the home page; limits not shown |
| Pro (Buildy, October 2026) | 99 | price from the affiliate earnings calculator; credit limits not shown | |
| Max (Buildy, October 2026) | 1,000 Building credits and 40,000 Operating credits a month; price not shown |
The Superdev home page of 16 July 2025 offered "Start for free" but showed no paid plans. After the sale the product became Buildy; its pricing page at buildy.ai/pricing loads an error page. Buildy's affiliate page uses a "$99 Pro plan" in its earnings calculator, which pays 15% of that each month after the first, so the Pro price is US$99 a month. A Buildy help article describes a Max plan with monthly credits but no price. These are the later owner's prices, not the prices Superdev charged before the sale.
When did Superdev launch, and how did it grow?
From launch in February 2025 to a sale in August 2025, six months, and a new name by December 2025. Each entry carries its grade.
- Before 2025CElgazar sells a smaller project, Reclips, through Acquire.com and learns what buyers ask for. [2]
- February 2025CHe launches Superdev, an AI tool that writes the front end and the back end of an app from one prompt. [2, 4]
- 3 April 2025CThe home page shows a "New v2.0" label and links to templates, pricing and docs; some text still names "GenFast". [5]
- 15 May 2025CThe home page is a closed-beta waitlist: 312 people waiting, 100 invites sent each week. [6]
- 12 to 17 June 2025CTwo-way GitHub sync ships, then a documentation site. [8]
- 16 July 2025CThe public home page reads "Build full-stack apps in seconds" with a free start. [7]
- August 2025CHe lists Superdev on Acquire.com. Five letters of intent arrive within two weeks, and a buyer closes in about a week and a half. [2]
- August 2025DSale price, as the newsletter later reports from his X post: US$350,000. [1]
- 16 September 2025CAcquire.com publishes the story, a video and podcast episode 143 of Startup Acquisition Stories, with no price. [2, 3, 4]
- 10 December 2025CThe documentation site now says "Meet Buildy.ai": the new owner has renamed the product. [9]
- 26 June 2026DThe newsletter AI & No-Code Exits publishes the US$350,000 price and the figure of just below US$7,000 a month. [1]
- October 2026Csuperdev.build redirects to buildy.ai, which now sells an all-in-one AI business platform to non-developers. [10, 11]
Why did Superdev work?
Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.
Timing
The founder started in February 2025 on the bet, as the newsletter tells it, that vibe coding was about to become popular. Acquire.com writes that AI tools were everywhere but most were fragmented or too complex, and that developers wanted speed and simplicity. A working product in that moment was found by people looking for exactly that.
Free channels: Reddit and creator videos
According to Acquire.com's account, the first signups came from Reddit, and then TikTok and YouTube creators posted short clips of an app being built in minutes. An app builder makes a good demo video because the whole result appears on screen in under a minute.
One clear sentence for a buyer
Full-stack apps from one AI interface, with database, login, storage and email included. Acquire.com says the founder used this difference, and growth from organic marketing, as his main arguments to buyers.
A prepared, competitive sale
He had sold through Acquire.com before, so his figures and documents were ready before buyers asked. Five offers in two weeks let the buyers compete on the price. In Acquire.com's words, due diligence (the buyer's check of the figures, code and contracts) "moved fast", and the right buyer stepped forward in less than a week and a half. The newsletter reported a price of US$350,000; Acquire.com stated none.
How it was built
These details come from archived copies of Superdev's own pages and from Acquire.com's account. They are grade C, except the framework, which is visible in the page source (grade B). [5, 6, 7, 8, 2]
- The archived home pages load their scripts from /_next/static/, the file layout of the Next.js web framework.
- In April 2025 the site said users could "Connect your own or use our Supabase connector" for the back end; by May it promised a built-in database with "No Supabase needed".
- By July 2025 each generated app came with a database, user roles, login, file storage and email, all managed inside Superdev.
- Generated apps could call OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models, according to the May 2025 page. No source says which model wrote Superdev's own code.
- Two-way GitHub sync (12 June 2025) let users edit the code in their own editor and push it back.
- No paid advertising: Reddit posts and creator videos brought the users, as Acquire.com reported from the founder.
Who tried this before Superdev, and why did they fail?
Five companies in the Loot Drop database promised that people could build software without writing code, or that AI would write it. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.
Builder.ai
The promiseCustom apps assembled by AI instead of expensive developers.
Why it diedEach project cost more to build than the customer paid, and much of the work said to be AI was done by people. The money ran out.
The Grid
The promiseWebsites designed by AI, without paying a designer.
Why it diedThe AI of the time could not produce good designs, and Wix, Squarespace and WordPress kept improving.
Koji
The promiseA no-code builder for creators' interactive apps.
Why it diedCaught between Webflow and Bubble, it could not turn free users into paying ones at scale.
Appcubator
The promiseDrag-and-drop app creation without a programming degree.
Why it diedUsers hit the limits of the builder, kept leaving, and moved to more flexible tools such as Bubble.
Kite DevTool
The promiseAI code completion inside the developer's editor.
Why it diedIts free product never made money, and GitHub Copilot, built on a far stronger language model, took the market.
The failed startups come from Loot Drop, a free database of dead startups, retold here in our own words. Loot Drop describes its entries as AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.
What changed
The older companies in this list either promised AI before the models could deliver (The Grid, Kite) or offered drag-and-drop builders whose limits users reached quickly (Koji, Appcubator). Builder.ai said AI built its apps while people did much of the work. In 2025 a language model could write a working app from a description, so a small product could deliver what these companies had promised.
Superdev also did not try to outlast the large, funded app builders of 2025. Its founder sold it six months after launch, while users were still growing, to a buyer who wanted the product. The newsletter reported a price of US$350,000. For a one-person product in a crowded market, a sale was the result, not a long-running business.
Can one person copy Superdev now?
The timing, no. The sale process, yes.
The vibe-coding moment of early 2025 cannot be repeated. What a reader can copy is how the founder sold: he had sold one product before, prepared the figures and documents in advance, listed while the product was still growing, and let several buyers compete.
Where it is still open: Any product built on a new AI ability in the month the ability appears, and sold to a strategic buyer before larger competitors arrive.
- 1Sell one small project first, so that you learn what buyers check.
- 2Keep revenue, user and cost figures and the code documentation ready before you list.
- 3List while the growth is still visible, not after it stops.
- 4Let several buyers make offers at the same time, and answer their questions quickly.
What could go wrong for Superdev?
The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.
What is not verified
The sale price, US$350,000, rests on one source: the newsletter AI & No-Code Exits of 26 June 2026, published ten months after the sale, which says the founder (@elgazar_itay) stated the price on X. The newsletter does not link or date that post, and this page did not read it, because X requires a login. Acquire.com, which hosted the sale, published the story, a video and a podcast on 16 September 2025 and gave no price, only "life-changing". Their standard closing text mentions "350,000+ buyers" on Acquire.com, a different number that a reader should not confuse with the price. The figure of just below US$7,000 a month in recurring revenue comes from the same newsletter only. A reader could look for the founder's X post itself, the Acquire.com listing, the podcast audio, or a statement from the buyer.
The revenue timeline does not fit the archived pages
The newsletter says the product reached just below US$7,000 a month within about two months of a February 2025 launch. The archived home page of 15 May 2025, three months after the launch, shows a closed beta with 312 people on a waitlist and 100 invites a week, and the April 2025 page still names another product, "GenFast". A public product page appears only in July 2025. The revenue may have come later than the newsletter says, or the figure may be wrong.
The buyer and the later product
No source names the buyer. The product is now Buildy, sold to non-developers as a way to "launch a profitable business that runs itself", with an affiliate program that promises "passive income". Those are the new owner's words, not the founder's, and they describe a different product from the developer tool that was sold.
Growth from creators, without retention data
The users came from Reddit and creator videos. No source gives churn (the share of paying users who cancel each month), the cost of the AI models per user, or whether the creators were paid.
Competition from other app builders
Acquire.com itself describes early 2025 as a time when AI tools were everywhere. Superdev's only stated difference was full-stack generation from one interface, which other builders can also add. The predecessors on this page show what happens to app builders that cannot keep paying users or keep their costs below their prices.
Sources
The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.
- D AI & No-Code Exits newsletter, 26 June 2026: How Itay Elgazar took an AI app from zero to nearly $7K MRR in two months, then sold at the top for $350,000Read in full (the post page and the same text in the publication's feed). The only source for the US$350,000 price and the US$7,000 monthly figure; it retells the founder's X post without a link or date, and its lessons follow the Acquire.com article closely.
- C Acquire.com blog, 16 September 2025, by Veronica Buratini: The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped App Life-changing ExitRead in full. The marketplace's own story of the sale, from an interview with the founder. Source for the launch month, the channels, the five letters of intent and the earlier Reclips sale. No price.
- C Startup Acquisition Stories podcast, episode 143, 16 September 2025: The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing ExitRead the Apple Podcasts episode page and description; the 16-minute audio was not transcribed. Confirms the sale two weeks after listing and "hundreds of paying users".
- C Acquire.com on YouTube, 16 September 2025: The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing ExitRead the video page's description only. Confirms the February 2025 launch, Reddit, TikTok and YouTube demos, and the listing in August.
- C Superdev home page, Wayback Machine copy of 3 April 2025Read in full. Shows the "New v2.0" site, the Supabase connector and the leftover "GenFast" text.
- C Superdev home page, Wayback Machine copy of 15 May 2025Read in full. Shows the closed beta, the waitlist of 312 and the model and database claims.
- C Superdev home page, Wayback Machine copy of 16 July 2025Read in full. The public product page one month before the listing.
- C Superdev documentation: ChangelogRead in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the June 2025 GitHub sync and documentation dates.
- C Superdev documentation home, Wayback Machine copy of 10 December 2025Read in full. Shows the product renamed Buildy.ai after the sale.
- C Buildy home pageRead in full on 25 October 2026. superdev.build redirects here. The new owner's page; used only for the rename and for what the product became.
- C Buildy affiliate program pageRead in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the US$99 Pro plan price and the affiliate wording. The pricing page, buildy.ai/pricing, returned an error page with no prices.
- C Buildy news: Meet your new Buildy creditsRead in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the Max plan's monthly credits.
- C Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startupsLocal export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.