Who acquires big macOS apps?
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.
No one acquires apps based on line count.
I’m curious about this app. Please let us know your website URL!
Dude talk to Beorg, I was a very bright college student with ADHD (diagnosed as a freshman, first quarter at Stanford, Adult ADD, absolute textbook case ie every symptom and no symptoms of anything else, open about it like one of my doctors), I basically flunked when Beorg broke down. It was a combo. It's a one man show, but you could be stronger together.
Tell me what your app is called!
I would be interested too. I'm writing software that could make an excellent addition to a college textbook.
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 may actually know the right people for this in the student success space. @ me on Twitter and I'll see what I can do.
(Unofficial tl;dr: The price is x2 or x4 your last year profit.)
Interested to hear why you "don't want to deal with Apple any longer". What are the issues you faced?
Although I despise non-native apps, I’ll just devils advocate for a moment: most of the value of your app is the established user base and the fact that you were able to design an apparently adequate UX.
so why not port over to Electron and go multi platform?
Email me please. I’m in psychology - this works well.
It's cute that you consider 13,000 LOC big.