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Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by ElevenLathe »

tortilla wrote: post #53
ElevenLathe wrote: post #51

It seems like there is definitely an advantage to getting apps on these "stores" early in their lifecycle, though I never even hear about their existence until much later. Does anyone know a way to learn about new app stores/marketplaces early on, besides obsessing over tech news constantly?

You could periodically skim the forums for pain points... I did this when Airtable first got off the ground. https://community.airtable.com I didn't do anything with the info as I didn't have extra time to devote to a new product. I'm sure other unicorn startups will have communities around them or subreddits.

Yeah, once you know Airtable exists and has an app store. The question is how to find out about new platforms like this in the first place though.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by callmekatootie »

tnolet wrote: post #67
andycloke wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I coded it manually as the business logic is so Data Fetcher specific I don't think a library would help much. This blog post does an amazing job of explaining the approach you need: https://blog.checklyhq.com/building-a-multi-tenant-saas-data...

Cool to see that post pop up (I'm the author). Glad it helped!

Excellent write up. Do you recommend any books or blogs that talk technical stuff equivalent to this, directed towards the Saas domain in general?

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by bilsbie »

andycloke wrote: post #54
ssharp wrote: post #46

I'm curious how much time customer support takes for products around this price and how much impacts the viability of a business this size. At $8600 MRR * 12 ~= $103k. Obviously some level of expenses here but let's assume very high margins. $8600 / $40 plan = 215 customers. Given all that, how much time does it take to service 215 customers' support needs? Assuming profit would be in the $80-90k range, that's multip…

Support is roughly 10 hours per week and we're now up to 270 customers. The rest of the time is spent on product, reviewing marketing content and occasionaly sales. I've been full-time since $5k MRR as trying to juggle all this with a full time job was miserably + slowed down growth. $80-90k isn't actually that much less than a developer salary (in U.K., not U.S.), but it's an interesting question what I'd do if it d…

How do you find Saas ideas?

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by PainfullyNormal »

RektBoy wrote: post #63

Never heard about Airtable, why would anybody use it since there's Excel?

For the obvious reason: there are things Airtable can do that excel can't.

For example, I'm using airtable to track my job applications. I save the job ad, my cover letter and the resume I used as a pdf and attach them to the row in a column designed for attaching files. You can't do that in excel (at least not that I've seen).

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by Handytinge »

ssharp wrote: post #46

I'm curious how much time customer support takes for products around this price and how much impacts the viability of a business this size. At $8600 MRR * 12 ~= $103k. Obviously some level of expenses here but let's assume very high margins. $8600 / $40 plan = 215 customers. Given all that, how much time does it take to service 215 customers' support needs? Assuming profit would be in the $80-90k range, that's multip…

> Assuming profit would be in the $80-90k range, that's multiples lower than what a developer could make in a job

HN really lives in a bubble. $90k USD per year is more than double the median income in the highest earning countries in the world [0]. There are very few places in the world you could not live extremely comfortably on that income.

Even for software engineering specifically, there are only two countries where the median is > $90k USD. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income 1. https://codesubmit.io/blog/software-engineer-salary-by-count...

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