ThumbnailTest
FeaturedA/B testing tool for YouTube thumbnails that helps creators find which image drives more clicks, built before YouTube shipped the feature natively.
Guillaume "Rox" Pacheco built ThumbnailTest after working briefly with the MrBeast team and seeing firsthand how critical thumbnail performance is for top creators. He grew the product to $20,000 MRR. In early 2024, he sold for a six-figure sum, just 4 months before YouTube launched its own native thumbnail testing feature. Rox was publicly conflicted about the sale but credited creator community credibility as the main moat.
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Exit Analysis
This database tracks 362 SaaS exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $20,000. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
From founding to sale took 1.5 years. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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