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Ask HN: What does your SaaS do and how many paying customers do you have?
After reading the recent Baremetrics post where they were called out for "only doing $45,000 per month" I became curious about the metrics of other SaaS companies. I realize most companies aren't as transparent as Baremetrics, but even some anonymous stats would be interesting.
What does your SaaS do, how many paying customers do you have, and what's the average monthly revenue per customer?
- beat 10y agoZero, and zero. Still in development. We are building a system for detecting and analyzing arbitrary configuration change in complex software systems, for auditing, troubleshooting, and history purposes. It's... nontrivial. On the plus side, the three of us have 60+ years of combined enterprise computing experience. We're addressing a problem as real to us as the air we breathe. On the minus side, we're all grownups, with mortgages and children in college and aging parents to care for and such. Building a complex startup while dayjobbing to pay the bills is a slow and difficult process. I worked full time on it for a while, writing what was supposed to be beta but turned out to be alpha (and a good lesson on technical shortcomings and key difficulties in the problem space around volatility). Much more confident (and efficient) in the current development! On track for paying customers this year. The $45,000/mo figure you mentioned makes me think of Jason Lemkin's article about $50k/mo being a key threshold... https://www.saastr.com/at-50k-in-mrr-running-out-of-money-is-no-longer-an-excuse/ https://www.saastr.com/at-50k-in-mrr-running-out-of-money-is...
- sharemywin 10y agohttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h4Pfv3NAP2veoRC0DBJNtghMa44Mjb_kM6oHUPzsHEs/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h4Pfv3NAP2veoRC0DBJN...