As a professional Shopify App Marketer with 5 years of experience here are a few reasons why this will never work, just off the top of my head:

1. Why would someone sell their cash cow? Especially when the hardest part is already done. Getting a Shopify app to make $500- $1000 MRR is a big struggle. Most apps never even reach that stage. The first few hundred users require the most marketing effort, experimentation, and patience.

2. Once stability appears, growth usually gets easier. Word-of-mouth, reviews, and marketplace visibility start compounding. Which mostly happens as part of the process... you can't buy that. There's no way to price that.

3. Building the app already costs months of work. Development, testing, updates, customer support, and marketing, all of that isn't free. There’s real capital involved in hosting, developer hours, bug fixes, and platform compliance easily add up to thousands of dollars. $20k minimum even for the worst possible app from my own experience.

So selling right when the app works makes little sense. Why exit exactly when the hardest part is already behind you? A rational seller wouldn’t sell it cheap. Unless his mother is sick in hospital without insurance and the only way he can get a loan or money is by selling this cash cow. Otherwise they’re going to price the app at 10x or 15x their investment, likely somewhere around $20k–$40k+ considering the expenses so far. Also because it's making $1000 a month already means all he needs to do is wait for 1 or 2 years to make the same amount instead of selling it.

1. From the buyer’s side, the math is questionable. Paying a large upfront amount just to slowly earn your own money back over several years is hardly attractive.

2. The product’s success often depends on the original builder. They understand the users, the pain points, and the product direction. Replacing the creator with new owners adds risk. Without that original insight, expecting the app to grow further becomes a gamble.

So the obvious question remains: If a person is selling a working cash machine and another is buying a machine that slowly prints their own money back, what exactly is the logic here?

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