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Who acquires big (13,000 lines) Mac apps?

 1 year ago
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Who acquires big (13,000 lines) Mac apps?

Who acquires big (13,000 lines) Mac apps?
21 points by cc101 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments
I don't want to deal with Apple any longer. My app helps college students in academic trouble organize and sustain large academic projects. It's mostly for very bright college students with ADHD. Any potential acquirers you would like to suggest?
I think acquirers will typically be more interested in financial figures rather than the size of the codebase.

There's flippa.com and the likes, you could start your research there.

Firstly, you can sell Mac apps without using the Mac app store. I do. But you have to use a payment processor and still deal with digital certificates, notarization etc.

Secondly, 13,000 line of code is tiny compared to many (most?) commercial apps. I wouldn't consider anything under a million lines of source code as a 'big' code base.

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Indeed, I shipped several desktop apps that were in the low millions SLOC. Looking at some recent private hobby apps, I've consistently approached 100k. The SLOC here is less important than the size of the target audience (and metrics like retention).
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Agree, generally. But LOC depends on the language. 13k lines in Clojure can make almost anything.
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Good luck writing an app with a complex GUI in 13k lines of anything.
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Yes, would highly recommend them. I met the founder a while back, great guy.
I’m curious about this app. Please let us know your website URL!
The app you describe sounds like it would be incredibly useful to me, do you mind sharing a link?

Good luck with the acquisition!

I would be interested too. I'm writing software that could make an excellent addition to a college textbook.
It's cute that you consider 13,000 LOC big.
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