Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps
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Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps
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#2What problem does this solve?
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#3Does this do anything more than just chart some KPIs and extend a trendline from your revenue?
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#4I believe ChartMogul are adding revenue forecasting to their product shortly.
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#5Great name, rolls of the tongue.
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#6Out of curiosity: Did you try to validate your hypothesis that people will find this useful?
No need to share juicy detials, I'm genuinely wondering. I'm very much thinking about "on top feature" small SaaS projects and Stripe is a prime candidate, but I wonder if I would use this.
General Stripe reporting solutions are there. I'm having a hard time seeing how nominal revenue predictions are actionable. In case things go up I should be able to gauge by actionable metrics (churn, sign up rate, conversion rates), and wouldn't care to end up with $ estimates (will be slightly off either way).
Would love to chat about the idea/ topic in general in case you're interested.
Re: Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps
#7Out of curiosity: Did you try to validate your hypothesis that people will find this useful? No need to share juicy detials, I'm genuinely wondering. I'm very much thinking about "on top feature" small SaaS projects and Stripe is a prime candidate, but I wonder if I would use this. General Stripe reporting solutions are there. I'm having a hard time seeing how nominal revenue predictions are actionable. In case thing…
I believe there are already many solutions for this, https://baremetrics.com/ offers a paid service for reporting churn, sign up rates, conversion rates etc, https://clearbanc.com/ offers a free solution for the same metrics. I believe they both support stripe data as well.
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#8a bigger player is https://www.zodiacmetrics.com/, who have many peer-reviewed papers and are thus transparent with their (general) forecasting approach. i would love to see some model details given the maturity of other teams.
(disclosure: i took a class with the prof whose research drives zodiac)
Re: Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps
#9Out of curiosity: Did you try to validate your hypothesis that people will find this useful? No need to share juicy detials, I'm genuinely wondering. I'm very much thinking about "on top feature" small SaaS projects and Stripe is a prime candidate, but I wonder if I would use this. General Stripe reporting solutions are there. I'm having a hard time seeing how nominal revenue predictions are actionable. In case thing…
I believe there are already many solutions for this, https://baremetrics.com/ offers a paid service for reporting churn, sign up rates, conversion rates etc, https://clearbanc.com/ offers a free solution for the same metrics. I believe they both support stripe data as well.
Yup, I kno of baremetrics and the like; hence I would use them to check on general, actionable SaaS metrics and am wondering about the perceived value of Saascast for customers of those tools that already have a feeling where their business might be going in the next one to three months.
With changes in the product I'm not sure whether longer time horizons make sense.
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#10I believe ChartMogul are adding revenue forecasting to their product shortly.
Really?? That would be great! What’s your source?