6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

“They will collectively receive $25 million of the $80 million as a “retention” bonus.”

The solo founder had eight employees, and $25 million of the $80 million is a retention bonus for them. Base44 made $189,000 profit in May on a product six months old. It runs on someone else’s model through AWS. Wix bought a wrapper with traction.