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Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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Thanks for the response. Will keep an eye out for that functionality. Fyi, would be willing to pay $100-150/month to give my sales team the ability to run scenarios.

Would love to hear more about specific scenarios you're looking to run. You can email me deva@opstarts.com if you'd like to talk more!

Thanks - just did.

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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not yet, but we agree! Integrations are something we're working on. I just started a discussion thread for suggestions: https://opstarts.zendesk.com/hc/communities/public/questions... Thanks for the pricing feedback, I like those suggestions. We're currently evaluating pricing and will have some updates on launch pricing soon.

Do I have to login to comment on this? This is a bit annoying.

you shouldn't. i'll get that fixed in a bit. in the meantime, anything else besides Stripe you'd like to see integrated with Opstarts?

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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Can it pull financials from Stripe (plans, MRR, customers)? This would be amazing. My other advise. Start charging (do a 1 month trial) and something like a flat rate of $12 a month to start. You can iterate later by charging per user or another model. We are looking forward to trying Opstarts out, and if we like it and find value, totally willing to pay.

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Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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we started with SaaS, so we currently have the most functionality there. However, we are rapidly building out that kind of support. We already support linking expenses for each sale you make to support basic COGS and will have much more soon.

Can second labaraka - the inventory-holding startup world needs a product like this desperately! To the developers: I included my contact information and a writeup about our fashion brand's pain points in the signup page, and I'd be happy to give feedback about the product at some point - just send me a ping!

thanks! we already have a couple of fashion startups using us that have both seasonal (fixed amount) and ongoing (based on sales) inventory purchasing and replenishment expenses to model. We support a number of basic scenarios like that, but inventory-related modeling is definitely something we're focused on improving. I'll keep an eye our for your message, and also feel free to write me any time at deva@opstarts.com.

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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Looks (and sounds) like it might be very helpful. However as I'm in the UK, any chance of currency conversion?

like andy said, currency conversion is something that's in our plans, but will be a little while. on the other hand, we hope to get at least different currency display options (as opposed to just $) in settings very soon.

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

#36
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Looks (and sounds) like it might be very helpful. However as I'm in the UK, any chance of currency conversion?

Do you actually need currency conversions (in the sense that you deal in multiple currencies and want to normalize them to one) or do you just want to be able to use pounds vs dollars and have the numbers like reasonable for a UK person? For sure we ultimately want to support the former, but worked on systems that do this, there's a fair amount of complexity depending on what you really need to do.

Ideally when international ops come about it'd be helpful to have complete currency conversion. It's easier to work around than the whole site being dollar only.

For the time being just being able to use pounds to make the numbers clear for us over here would be fine though.

edit: sounds like that's the plan from the reply above. looks good :)

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

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I am having trouble modeling a Bootstrapped Freemium to Premium conversion. Even with generous Freemium growth and a decent conversion rate to Premium I don't see much revenue growth over time.

happy to look into this with you, this is likely something very simple, feel free to email me deva@opstarts.com. also, there is going to be a "modeling freemium" knowledge base article posted today.

Re: Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

#40

Love the idea. I'd like to learn more about it.

anything specific you want to know? happy to discuss! Or just check out the product, then feel free to post in our forums or email info@opstarts.com with any questions you have.
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