I will use this extensively tonight(spend about 1-2 hrs beta testing) and come back with suggestions/comments and input, IF you can add ways to save the data and/or export to CSV/excel after. On a brief look, it looks great, well done.
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#22That's awesome. Can you make one thats for 'lifestyle' businesses, i.e. bootstrapped startups with a sustainable model? For starters, with my business model, the monthly expenses depend on the number of customers directly. Every time I get a customer, I automatically deploy a VM. And I am charging them a few more bucks than the VM costs, so my revenue is directly tied to the number of customers also. Maybe I just nee…
Great suggestions. This initial pass was meant to solve one specific use case I happened to have, but I'd love to add more modeling capabilities.
The addition of one-time costs or revenue based on customer acquisition is important and something that will be there eventually (training is a good example in Saas).
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#23Would be cool if you could export to Excel. That way you could lay the fundamentals in place here and do custom things offline.
Plan to do this eventually. However, this fundamentally doesn't solve the core problem (for me at least). Versioning nightmares happen when you've got one model that you customized to have three products and your new model has four. To compare to your previous model(s) you've got to keep updating all spreadsheets.
An app like this would hopefully remove some of that rework and eventually allow A/B testing of different fundraising scenarios, or different revenue models with similar fundraising, etc.
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#24Struggling with maintaining 25 versions of financial projection spreadsheets for a tiered SKU based SaaS startup. I decided to spin this up as quickly as possible (and learn a little AngularJS along the way). The result - after ~30 hours it's usable enough to show. Obviously needs more flexibility around the variety of revenue models and expense categories. But really it's just for rough estimates at this point.
As a piece of technology, this is really cool. But I guess I don't get how it's different from a nice Excel model. How is it that this allows you to capture 25 different use cases in a way that the a spreadsheet can't?
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#25I have spent more hours than I'm comfortable contemplating slaving over Excel spreadsheets creating projections. I went into one funding round with perfect eyesight and came out needing reading glasses. This tool is fantastic. I'd love to be able to modify it for non-MRR companies though. What license are you releasing the code under?
Hadn't thought about open-sourcing the project yet. Initially just something to remove the pain I was feeling in my current role. It allows me to share models with founders and collaborate as well. Data is persisted (MongoDB) and the unique Url for each model created will work if you navigate directly back to it.
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#26This is absolutely fantastic. I would pay real money for something similar tailored to product sales model (vs recurring SaaS).
Totally with you. Would love to build out several different cost/revenue models including one completely based on web site visits and paid customer conversion rate. Sprinkle in some correlation with marketing spend and you've got something passable for a B2C company.
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#27This is absolutely fantastic. I would pay real money for something similar tailored to product sales model (vs recurring SaaS).
Out of curiosity, what would be the major changes required?
Definitely unit economics and everything that needs to go above the line. Would be KILLER to have those.
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#28I will use this extensively tonight(spend about 1-2 hrs beta testing) and come back with suggestions/comments and input, IF you can add ways to save the data and/or export to CSV/excel after. On a brief look, it looks great, well done.
The data is actually being persisted (MongoDB). Notice a unique Url is created when you click through the initial landing page. If you save that Url somewhere and come back to it your data will be there.
Thanks for taking some time on it - feedback is most welcome as I'll continue to hack on it over the next few months - time permitting.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what would be the major changes required?
Definitely unit economics and everything that needs to go above the line. Would be KILLER to have those.
If you have an example worksheet I'd love to see it. I've spent my last 7 years in B2B SaaS so have plenty of the tiered SKU models for reference.
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#30Impressive! Are you going to develop this further for the community? I'd love to use it and be able to save, print, export, etc...
Yep, planning to keep rolling with it if there's interest. I mentioned this in previous responses, but the data is actually being saved. The unique Url generated when you first start will get you back to the settings for the model you're working on.
It's a stop-gap feature so that I didn't need to implement a login/authorization system in the MVP.