Tyler Tringas

You know, in part, I think for me, I always have this really strong aversion to writing about how to make money on the internet because it's so easy for it to like leak into kind of scammy stuff that I was like, look, if I publish the numbers, they will give me exactly as much credibility as I deserve, right?

Like, you know, take this with a grain of salt that is like, I've not built nothing, right?

You know, I have built,

a decent sized business, but I also haven't built a $20 million a year business.

So that's the appropriate context for this conversation.

And then I would write about what was working, what wasn't working strategies, that sort of stuff.

And I felt like that, that went really well, but as a result, people would know, I say, Oh, Hey, you know, it looks like now you're a 32 K MRR business, like, you know, blah, blah, blah.

And so there was just a constant stream of, um,

of soft bids, inquiries, that sort of stuff.

A handful every month of folks saying, yeah, if you ever want to sell, talk to me.

And so I kept the list.

I basically would just say, no, I'm not interested right now, but I would kind of note it down.

And then, yeah, I went to MicroConf and I met

um i met uh kevin from sure swift and you know he sort of so basically they have a business that is exactly this they they buy you know mature um profitable software businesses and then they just own and operate them so the founder is kind of hands off and that was something i was kind of thinking about i've been running it for about five years and um you know it was paying me like a really nice salary but um you know what was the salary it was paying you

I mean, I was probably making about $250 a year after the team, right?

And this was for something that was properly like four-hour work week to some extent for me.

I mean, the last year that I owned the business, I...

uh, I, I took a year off basically with, you know, with my, um, then girlfriend, uh, and we traveled, we just, I mean, we hiked Kilimanjaro.

So I, I took like 12 days offline, you know, I was like, all right team, like, I'll see you later.

You know?