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Hi Hackers, founder here, What's in common with nomadlist, Ghost CMS and baremetrics? They are all Open Startups! It's an interesting era to live in. An era wh
by randymonday 7y ago
Hi Hackers, founder here,
What's in common with nomadlist, Ghost CMS and baremetrics? They are all Open Startups!
It's an interesting era to live in.
An era where we are in the midst of a virus outbreak, political corruptions and... Open startups!
What is an open startup? Well, there is no strict definition, but it basically means that the startup operates in full transparency, so all metrics like revenue and traffic is free for all to view.
I came across one problem though, how do I find these startups? how do I find their "open" metrics pages?
And that's why I built openstartuplist.com
Some interesting insights come across when you go over the data in the list, like:
- nomadlist revenue for Feb was ~30k$, a slight decrease from Jan but not much considering the effects of the Corona virus, interesting.
- Ghost have seemed to just cross today the 2M$ mark for ARR!! that's incredible!
- And a lot more insights out there.
I've taken the last week to curate a list of 12 open startups. But that's just the start, as I'm eagerly looking to add more to the list. I'm sure there are many more startups out there that operate in this transparent way.
This is a trend in the making.
All feedback is welcome and be safe and healthy :)
- henriquez 7y agoYou are going to need some more meat on the bone for the “Why” section. Because “it’s a growing trend.”...? Seriously? So were Beanie Babies. At the very least you need a link to a separate, full write-up about why any business owner should care, much less make that plunge. Don’t get me wrong, I am intrigued and clearly you believe in something, but you need to do a better job framing this.
- randymonday 7y agoThanks for the feedback henrique, I totally agree. My initial thought was that each person has a different reason of "why" he/she should care. But I will I will probably redo that. Thanks again!
- jivings 7y agoWe wrote an article about this :) https://blog.leavemealone.app/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-open-startup/ https://blog.leavemealone.app/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-ope...