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Post by joshxyz »

optymizer wrote: post #62

Congrats! On a related note, can someone on HN can educate me on why MRR is the primary metric? MRR doesn't tell you if the startup is profitable, which is presumably the goal - to make money. If your costs are $3M/month, an MRR of $100K sounds like a terrible deal. Wouldn't it make more sense to report profits?

Because mrr proves the the market exists. And in saas area it is assumed to be in healthy profit margin, compared to other areas. In saas operating costs can be reduced, marketing can be scaled, churn can be reduced - but all of these require demand for your product.

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Post by biggunz »

mddanishyusuf wrote: post #77
gdsdfe wrote: post #73

just curious, who's your competition? there must be other people doing this no?

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+1 yeah, talk about the solution and make it dead easy simple, keep a very simple scope and make simple features work extremely well.

I've managed to climb to the top of my "industry" through doing the same, all the other competitors talk about what they technology they use etc, people dont care.. they just want a really simple fast sexy solution.

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Post by masterof0 »

mddanishyusuf wrote: post #52
masterof0 wrote: post #31

I can only imagine your lifestyle in India with $18,036 / month , that's probably the equivalent of making 60k a month in the US? Wish you the best, I'm inspired.

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With all due respect, I find what you claim to be highly unlikely, if you are comparing lifestyle in downtown Delhi(or wherever rich people live) with a poor area in the UK, then maybe? But otherwise is crazy. If that were the case, companies wouldn't outsource to India, they will just hire locally then.

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Post by raincom »

akudha wrote: post #116
codegeek wrote: post #83

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I see some people arguing that 18K in India is the same as elsewhere. Don't pay attention to that. 18K per month in India is HUGE and yes something things are equally expensive as other developed countries (e.g. buying an apartment in crazy expensive cities like Mumbai or Bangalore) but overall, the cost of living is much lower than western countries on average. Source: An Indian-American (I don't like hyphens but in…

18K USD is a LOT of money in India. Real estate in bigger Indian cities is super expensive. Everything else is much, much cheaper than western countries. You can get fantastic food (tasty and healthy) compared to the U.S, very cheap. Things can get much, much cheaper if you step out of the bigger cities.

More importantly, one can hire maids for everything: cooking, driving, babysitter, concierge doctor on-call, etc.

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Post by v8xi »

optymizer wrote: post #62

Congrats! On a related note, can someone on HN can educate me on why MRR is the primary metric? MRR doesn't tell you if the startup is profitable, which is presumably the goal - to make money. If your costs are $3M/month, an MRR of $100K sounds like a terrible deal. Wouldn't it make more sense to report profits?

Had to find the article, but I recently read this: https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/ talks about the guy who invented EBITDA and I found it super informative. Explains WHY profit is a bad measure and why cash flow rules.

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Post by 71a54xd »

codegeek wrote: post #118
corobo wrote: post #117

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Am I misreading or am I just learning the amount folks are earning on this site? In what country is 18k/mo not huge? That was my annual salary in my last job! I need to move to America lmao

18k/Mo USD is huge everywhere, so yes correct. Even in America.

Stuff in America is expensive, post taxes that's not much more than you could earn "working" for 20hrs a week at a startup.

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Post by __pache__ »

brianwawok wrote: post #125
__pache__ wrote: post #123

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why do you have to spend a few thousand?

Why not? Zendesk alone is over 1k. You can use a fake help desk software for half, but is it worth screwing with the bugs? My CPU load is something like 200 CPUs 24/7, and needs to be fault tolerant on top of that. Also needs to run without a sysadmin on my side.

why such a high cpu load?
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