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AutoSubtitles

Content CreationListed on TrustMRR· Aug 15
$90.0K
Asking Price
$2.8K/mo
Monthly Revenue
$2.7K/mo
Monthly Profit
2.8x
Profit Multiple
5 months
Business Age

Why We Picked This

AutoSubtitles delivers $2.8K/mo revenue with an exceptional 95% profit margin and a 2.8x annual multiple—both well-positioned for a bootstrapped, five-month-old AI-native business. Verified financials and platform confirmation add credibility. The core question is whether the current revenue base sustains or grows; buyer should confirm customer acquisition channel durability, churn, and the technical moat relative to increasingly capable open-source transcription models.

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Strengths

  • Exceptional 95% profit margin indicates highly efficient unit economics and minimal operational overhead
  • $2.8K monthly profit on a 2.8x multiple is attractive for early-stage SaaS, well below the 3.5–5x range typical of comparable tools
  • Verified financials and platform confirmation provide direct evidence of revenue and profitability
  • Five-month track record shows the business model works; early traction in a proven category (video transcription)
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Details to confirm

  • Confirm customer count, retention, and monthly churn to understand revenue stability and whether the $2.8K base is durable or declining
  • Request acquisition channel breakdown—organic vs. paid traffic, CAC, and LTV—to assess growth sustainability without additional marketing spend
  • Clarify the competitive positioning relative to Descript, Rev, and open-source Whisper; document proprietary integrations, accuracy claims, or niche focus that justify continued customer attraction
  • Review technical architecture to identify any vendor lock-in risk (e.g., dependency on third-party transcription APIs) and the path to margin compression if usage scales

Additional details to confirm

Evidence 74/100
Very short track record: under 6 monthsUnusually high reported profit margin

Buy vs Build: BUY

76
AI-native cash cost
$2.4K$5.8K
Estimated time
6 weeks
Asking price
$90.0K

The software itself—video upload, transcription API orchestration, subtitle formatting—is reproducible in 6 weeks with $2.4–5.8K in AI-assisted development (OpenAI Whisper API, Pocketbase or Supabase, Vercel hosting, and standard video libraries). However, AutoSubtitles' primary asset is verified, profitable revenue ($2.8K/mo) from real customers accumulated over five months; that traction and customer relationships cannot be bought for less than the asking price. The 95% margin also suggests lean operations and strong product-market fit in the transcription niche. Build carries the risk of starting from zero users and competing directly against established players; buying captures five months of customer acquisition history and proven unit economics. The valuation sits below market multiples, making acquisition materially more attractive than rebuilding from scratch, provided churn and CAC remain favorable upon verification.

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

$34K
Annual Revenue
$32K
Annual Profit
$2.8K
Monthly Revenue
34 mo
Est. Payback
Profit Margin95%
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Business Overview

AutoSubtitles is a web-based AI transcription and subtitling tool that automatically generates accurate captions and subtitles for video files. Users upload a video, and the service transcribes the au

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Quick Facts

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Type
Content Creation
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Age
5 months
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Source
TrustMRR
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Listed
Aug 15, 2026

Deal Score

82
Strong Deal
Evidence confidence74/100
2.8x
Good Multiple
Asking$90.0K
MRR$2.8K/mo
Profit$2.7K/mo
Profit Multiple2.8x
Age5 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.