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Show HN: SaaS Business Model Calculator
- justusw 10y agoHi, the creator here. I've been playing around with a lot of SaaS ideas in my head and needed a tool that would allow me to play around with different pricing strategies. I hope this tool will help someone on their journey to creating a SaaS company.
- rman666 10y agoVery cool. Thanks for creating and posting here on HN. Bookmarked to play with after work :-)
- ericb 10y agoThis thing is really awesome! Bookmarked! Modeling growth acceleration (and number of net adds expected at n% growth) would be very cool. I am also playing around with adding salaries and when, not sure how to add it in this UI, but that's about the only other thing I try and model at the moment.
- thecannister 10y agoHi, great tool! Boils down SaaS modeling to the key metrics that matter. I'm not sure if you've thought of this / have it in the works, but a way of saving a set of scenarios would be really nice :) You could probably just store them using a permalink or something
- dorianm 10y agoI would love to have a percent growth (e.g.: 10% more customers each month is very different than 100 more customers each month)
- brianwawok 10y agoHard part is LTV and churn are very hard to predict early. Extreme case everyone's LTV at month 1 is 1 months fee.
- ThomPete 10y agoI would love if this could show a growth of customers in percentage too.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoNice. A couple of thoughts: - Most businesses have fixed costs, like developer salaries. - Some products are paid for in arrears (e.g. 30/60 days after invoice) - Many SaaS businesses have multiple products with different characteristics. You could allow people to add multiple products, each with LTV/CAC/churn etc. If you're feeling ambitious you could even add a way to express 'x℅ of customers using product A this month will upgrade to product B from next month'. Like churn, but adding to a different income stream.