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April 5, 2019
Acquired by GitHub!
Dependabot was acquired by GitHub! We're integrating it directly into the product (our first feature is automated security fixes) and it's our ideal outcome!
February 21, 2018
Revenue update: Dependabot is now at $1,750/mo
Has been a great couple of months since our Indie Hackers interview went live, and Dependabot is now up to $1,750 a month. Not enough for me to live on yet, especially after GitHub take their 25% cut (Dependabot's revenue all comes through the GitHub Marketplace), but we're getting there!
The only thing we've done to drive the growth above has been respond to support requests as quickly as possible - we still haven't dipped our toe in the water of paid advertising.
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Congrats! Where you contacted out of the blue by them? Or did you build a relationship with them until this happened?
Thanks!
We tried our best to stay close to GitHub over the last 2 years - we knew that we were always in their "kill zone", so it was important for us to be acquired rather than killed if they ever decided to build automated dependency updates themselves. There was a lot of luck involved in achieving the outcome that we wanted, but it wasn't totally luck!
Congratulations! Did they reach out or did you reach out?
Congrats Grey,
I would love to know how much exchanged hands haha.
Afraid the purchase price is confidential, but we're super happy :-)
What is the reason for secrecy in so many deals like this? Do you have any general understanding of why this is you could share without going into specifics that could get you in trouble?
Wonderful! How did you stay close to github? Via social Media? Twitter?
Can you explain a bit in more detail?
Super thrilled for you.
By making friends with as many GitHub employees as possible, providing feedback to their senior folks wherever we had something useful to say, etc.
Oh, nice, congrats! Do you work for GitHub now?
Yes! And the Dependabot brand is living on within GitHub - it's now the name of the GitHub-owned bot that creates automated security fixes for you, and will create dependency update PRs in general for you once we're fully integrated.
Congrats! "Ideal outcome" is something great, hope you will share some update upcoming months
Congratulations !!
I've seen those Pull Requests from dependabot on DjaoDjin's open source projects. I didn't know it was you guys. Congratulations!
Does it feel like you've given away a baby?
No, it feels great! We can have so much more impact with Dependabot within GitHub - lots of cool stuff planned. And not being responsible for all the accounting, legals and HR is such a relief!
Congrats! How long did the deal take from LOI/term sheet to close?
About two months - the Microsoft acquisitions team are absolute pros.
Congrats !
Super dope. Congratulations.
Congratulations!
Wow! Congratulations man!
Congrats! :)
Congrats Grey! On your hero's journey
GJ! For how much?
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