Messenger For Desktop Update: How I Sold My Company On MicroAcquire

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Alexandru Rosianu

Founder, Messenger for Desktop

$1.5K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Messenger for Des...

messengerfordesktop.com

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started March 2015

$1,500

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Want more updates on Messenger for Desktop? Check out these stories:

1. How I Developed A $1.5K/Month Facebook Messenger App For Desktop (2020) ➜

This is a follow up story for Messenger for Desktop. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published over 4 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Hello again! I built Messenger for Desktop, a simple app that lets you use Facebook Messenger from your Mac or Windows computer.

Since the first interview on Starter Story more than a year ago, the biggest update and something I'm proud of is that I've sold the app to an American company.

The first page of the pitch deck I created when I posted the business for sale on MicroAcquire.

Tell us about what you’ve been up to! Has the business been growing?

In 2020, the advertising industry (on which my monetization depended) was impacted by marketing budget cuts caused by COVID, the backlash on advertising (ad blockers), and people generally being more privacy-conscious.

Messenger for Desktop had reached a point where I...

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