# I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

DevFeed: [I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-sold-tinypilot-my-first-successful-business-52782.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/>)

Author: Michael Lynch

Published: 2024-05-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mtlynch](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mtlynch-io.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [manager](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/manager.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [revenue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/revenue.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>)

## AI overview

A founder recounts building TinyPilot from a home-server control device into a seven-person business generating $1 million in annual revenue, then selling it for $598,000. He describes the product's early demand, the sale terms, and his reasons for selling, including management demands and a desire to return to writing code.

## Source excerpt

My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job. In mid-2020, yet another of my businesses had flopped, and it was only kind of COVID's fault. Desperate for a distraction, I made a little contraption that controlled my home servers through my web browser. I called it TinyPilot.