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#11

Anonymous startup

TravelListed on TrustMRR· Jul 19
$35.0K
Asking Price
$1.4K/mo
Monthly Revenue
$713/mo
Monthly Profit
4.1x
Profit Multiple
1 months
Business Age

Why We Picked This

This early-stage travel SaaS has verified financials showing $1,427/mo revenue with strong 50% margins and a reasonable 4.1x profit multiple. However, the business is only 1 month old, creating extreme uncertainty about durability, churn, and whether organic acquisition is sustainable. The Instagram distribution model is unproven at scale and carries significant concentration risk. The asking price of $35K for a month-old venture with no customer retention history or proof of repeatability is speculative.

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Strengths

  • Verified financials by platform — transparency is valuable
  • 49.97% profit margin is excellent for early-stage SaaS
  • Organic distribution through 150K+ combined Instagram followers reduces paid CAC
  • 4.1x annual profit multiple is reasonable for a growth business
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Things to Investigate

  • !Only 1 month of operating history — no proof of churn, retention, or repeatable unit economics
  • !Extreme age risk: majority of startups fail in first 6-12 months; no evidence of product-market fit
  • !Instagram distribution unproven at scale and subject to algorithm changes; single-channel dependency
  • !No customer count, cohort retention, or acquisition channel durability data disclosed

Evidence & risk flags

Evidence 74/100
Very short track record: under 6 months
AI-era acquisition decision

Buy vs Build: BUILD

38
AI-native cash cost
$2.5K$8.0K
Estimated time
6 weeks
Asking price
$35.0K

Buying a 1-month-old startup with unvalidated organic acquisition channels and no proven retention is high-risk. The software itself—a subscription travel planning app—is straightforward to build with AI coding tools, templates, Stripe for subscriptions, and a managed database in 6 weeks for $2.5K–$8K. The real value would be proven customer traction, repeat behavior, and sustainable Instagram distribution, none of which exist here. The asking price conflates potential with performance. Building independently allows you to test your own distribution and validate unit economics before scaling, eliminating the execution risk of acquiring an unproven 30-day-old venture.

Cash estimate includes the AI tools, APIs and infrastructure needed for a solo founder to recreate the software. Build time is informational and lightly weighted. The verdict is driven mainly by customers, users, verified earnings, retention, distribution, brand, data and operating history.

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Financial Snapshot

$17K
Annual Revenue
$9K
Annual Profit
$1.4K
Monthly Revenue
49 mo
Est. Payback
Profit Margin50%
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Business Overview

A subscription based travel planning app. It relies entirely on organic distribution through a network of travel Instagram pages with over 150,000 combined followers, growing by approximately 35,000 f

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Quick Facts

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Type
Travel
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Age
1 months
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Source
TrustMRR
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Listed
Jul 19, 2026

Deal Score

52
Interesting
Evidence confidence74/100
4.1x
High Multiple
Asking$35.0K
MRR$1.4K/mo
Profit$713/mo
Profit Multiple4.1x
Age1 months
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Preliminary screening based on marketplace and public data. Verify all financial, legal, technical, customer, and operational claims independently before making an acquisition decision. This is not financial or legal advice.