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in Money338 likes
My SaaS made $4,300 last month. Here's the actual spreadsheet.
Real revenue, real costs, real hours. No course at the end.
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Public revenue posts on this platform tend to lean two ways: triumphant or confessional. This one is going to be neither. It's a spreadsheet. Revenue Recurring subscriptions: $3,840 (about 110 paying customers, weighted toward the $29 tier) One-time annual prepays: $460 (two customers prepaying at a small discount) Total MRR: roughly $3,950, with the rest as one-off cash Net new customers last month: nine. Churned: three. Net: six. That's a slower month than the one before. I have stopped reading anything into...
Start readingPriya RamanMay 101 min readPlus
in Design312 likes
Why "reusable" is the wrong goal for design tokens
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A year of design crits, in 12 lessons
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in Programming187 likes
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in Writing156 likes
Writing as a distribution channel, finally explained
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in Climate142 likes
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