Admittedly, this wasn't a billion dollars or close to it. And Shlomo wasn't truly solo ' he had eight employees, Wix confirmed. They will collectively receive $25 million of the $80 million as a 'retention' bonus. Wix declined to give details on that part of the deal, like how long they have to stay in their jobs to get full payouts. In its six months as a stand-alone company, Base44 reportedly grew to 250,000 users, hitting 10,000 users within its first three weeks. According to Shlomo's posts on X and LinkedIn, the company was profitable, generating $189,000 in profit in May even after covering high LLM token costs, which he also documented publicly. Base44 spread mostly through word of mouth as Shlomo, a 31-year-old programmer, shared his building journey on LinkedIn and Twitter. The project began as a side venture, he told Israeli tech news site CTech. It's one of the newer crop of vibe-coding products designed for non-programmers. Users enter text prompts, and the platform...
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