note that since we get 70% of the revenue share, our cut is approx $30,000 which is what you see. Overall revenue is around $42,000 and looked better for the clickbait headline

we decided to go ahead with the Marketplace deal

we made $42,000

waiting for AppSumo Select would have meant wasting precious time as AppSumo is fairly choosy on the Select deals and takes time to launch them