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Sold my side-project to a VC!

Back in November, I launched a fun project called "Road to Scale" (roadtoscale.com) that I built without code. Using Carrd, Zapier, Airtable, Google Sheets & Gmail. My goal was to drive leads to No-Code MVP. 6 months and 20K users later, a Silicon Valley VC acquired it from me.

Also see: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/my-no-code-project-got-acquired-by-a-vc-firm-from-sf-6d46392791

, Founder of Icon for No-Code MVP
No-Code MVP
on May 14, 2020
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    Nice work. Guessing you’re not disclosing price..... 😄

  2. 2

    Awesome story. What does your project do? I see only 8 video courses on the page, is this it?

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      Haha - that is just the preview :)

  3. 2

    Dang... congratulations, @bramk :) Very exciting

  4. 2

    What was the range of what they acquired it for?

  5. 2

    That's awesome!

    It's not dissimilar to my public Notion board, 100 ideas for your first 100 users https://board.first100users.com/

    Atm I use it to drive people to my productised service but am exploring if it can be useful as its own entity.

    Did they approach you @bramk

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      thanks! Yeah got in touch through a mutual connection :)

    2. 1

      Cool, it helped me!

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      This comment was deleted 4 years ago.

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    nice work! I have some questions when you are free:

    1. What was the push factor for you to decide to sell? Was it your goal from day one?
    2. How did you "advertise" that it was up for sale?

    I wanted to see the site too, but its currently down.. I suppose that is no longer your problem lol

  7. 1

    Inspiring story, and WOW, all the resources in that table. Thanks for sharing!

  8. 1

    VC exits are a big deal at any stage, as it’s often the culminating moment of years of hard work. In this case, six months.

  9. 1

    Nice! Very interesting site. Any ideas for what they plan on doing with the site?

  10. 1

    Excellent ! you made it..

  11. 1

    Congrats Bram. That must have put a lot of hard cash into your pocket. The harder you work, the luckier you become they say. Congrats. Next frontier?

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