On Bootstrapping Planio to $75,000/mo in Revenue (indiehackers.com) 8 points by thomascarney 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] saycheese 9y ago ↗ >> "Here's what our monthly recurring revenue growth looks like from May 2011 until October 2016"subscriptionsThis "recurring" revenue chart looks way to linear to be accurate in my opinion.Yes, I get the business is a subscription service, but my experience is marketing and changes in market do not impact revenue in a linear way.Are they not marketing the product? [–] thomascarney 9y ago ↗ There's an expression to describe this growth (quite typical for SaaS companies): The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death, coined by Gail Goodman here: http://businessofsoftware.org/2012/10/gail-goodman-the-long-...You can also check lots of different SaaS companies at https://baremetrics.com/open to see their growth rates. Most are fairly linear. [–] saycheese 9y ago ↗ Looking through Baremetrics and unable to find an examples that that linear over a similar time period. Do you have an example or two?
[–] thomascarney 9y ago ↗ There's an expression to describe this growth (quite typical for SaaS companies): The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death, coined by Gail Goodman here: http://businessofsoftware.org/2012/10/gail-goodman-the-long-...You can also check lots of different SaaS companies at https://baremetrics.com/open to see their growth rates. Most are fairly linear. [–] saycheese 9y ago ↗ Looking through Baremetrics and unable to find an examples that that linear over a similar time period. Do you have an example or two?
[–] saycheese 9y ago ↗ Looking through Baremetrics and unable to find an examples that that linear over a similar time period. Do you have an example or two?
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This "recurring" revenue chart looks way to linear to be accurate in my opinion.
Yes, I get the business is a subscription service, but my experience is marketing and changes in market do not impact revenue in a linear way.
Are they not marketing the product?
You can also check lots of different SaaS companies at https://baremetrics.com/open to see their growth rates. Most are fairly linear.