--- title: "Buy or Sell a Micro-SaaS business" description: "Instead of starting from scratch, you could buy a micro-SaaS app. Here's how you can find a micro-SaaS business for sale." source: "Preetam Nath" canonical_url: "https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/buy-micro-saas" published: "2020-12-13" chapter_number: 7 --- # Buy or Sell a Micro-SaaS business Looking to buy a micro-SaaS app? It's a great idea because it gives you a jumpstart instead of starting from scratch. There is a growing trend where small private equity players are buying, holding, and growing micro-SaaS businesses. This is also good news for those building a micro-SaaS, because with more players means a higher chance that you could get an exit and a cash out. ## Micro-SaaS for sale Here are some of the best resources to find buyers for your niche business, or if you're an investor looking to buy a small software business. #### [Transferslot](https://transferslot.com/) Transferslot is a curated marketplace where side projects founders can expose their product to our Trusted Buyer community. #### [MicroAcquire](https://microacquire.com/) MicroAcquire has a simple promise - they  help you start conversations that lead to an acquisition in just 30 days – for free. #### [Indiemaker](https://indiemaker.co/) IndieMaker is a curated community marketplace with 1000+ members where makers sell their side-projects, unused domains and online businesses. #### [Sideprojectors](https://www.sideprojectors.com/) SideProjectors is a friendly marketplace to sell and buy interesting side projects from other people. If you are a developer with side projects then this would be a perfect community for you to discover what others are building. #### [Whobal](https://whobal.com/) A marketplace for buying and selling side projects & SaaS apps for free #### [Borderline](http://borderline.biz/) Borderline is a marketplace to buy & sell web applications, big or small, profitable or not, entirely for free. #### [Flippa](https://flippa.com/) Buy & sell online businesses on the Flippa marketplace, which supports more than just the SaaS category. #### [FE International](https://feinternational.com/) These people are brokers who find buyers for your profitable business, and they are quite reputed in the industry. Additionally if you're serious about being an investor, they you can sign up with them to create a dealflow. ## How much money can you sell your micro-SaaS for? Now don't begin day dreaming that you can sell your SaaS product for 10x revenue multiple. Higher multiples are attained the bigger the revenue stream gets. That's why public SaaS companies attract the highest multiples. If your micro-SaaS revenues is between $2k-$20k in MRR, expect somewhere between 1x to 5x ARR as your potential exit number. ### Why would you sell your micro-SaaS? Especially if it is making money? Well, you might be bored and uninspired by the current business, and find yourself increasingly wanting to spend less time running and maintaining it. You might have new ideas that you want to implement, which demand your undivided attention. Or you might just want the cash of your next few years revenue in your hands today, in one go. --- Canonical page: https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/buy-micro-saas When citing or referencing this content, please credit Preetam Nath and link to the canonical page above. ## About Preetam Nath Preetam Nath is an entrepreneur and indie software builder. He writes about building profitable SaaS businesses while leading a good life, from first-hand experience: he co-founded SuperLemon, a WhatsApp plugin for Shopify stores that grew to $25k MRR, and DelightChat, a customer support product for ecommerce and D2C brands. His website (https://www.preetamnath.com) publishes his blog on business, life, mental models and building SaaS businesses, along with a Micro-SaaS guide, a Programmatic SEO course, and Google Sheets habit tracker templates. - Homepage: https://www.preetamnath.com/index.md - Blog: https://www.preetamnath.com/blog.md - X/Twitter: https://x.com/hipreetam93 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathpreetam/ - Email: hipreetam93@gmail.com ## Other Chapters in the Micro-SaaS Guide - [Mission 1000: Why am I writing about Micro-SaaS?](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/micro-saas-mission-1000.md) - [Chapter 1: What is Micro-SaaS? And why should you care?](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/what-is-micro-saas.md) - [Chapter 2: Finding Micro SaaS Ideas in 2026](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/finding-micro-saas-ideas.md) - [Chapter 3: How to Validate Your Micro SaaS Idea](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/validate-saas-idea.md) - [Chapter 4: Build a Minimum Loveable Product for your Micro SaaS](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/minimum-loveable-product-micro-saas.md) - [Chapter 5: The Right Pricing Models and Strategies for your Micro-SaaS Product](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/pricing-models-strategies-micro-saas.md) - [Chapter 6: Micro-SaaS Marketing: Getting your first 10 and 1000 paying customers](https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas/micro-saas-marketing.md) Full guide index: https://www.preetamnath.com/micro-saas.md --- Complete index of all pages on this site, with descriptions and markdown links: https://www.preetamnath.com/llms.txt