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Hi, the creator here.

I've been playing around with a lot of SaaS ideas in my head and needed a tool that would allow me to play around with different pricing strategies. I hope this tool will help someone on their journey to creating a SaaS company.

Very cool. Thanks for creating and posting here on HN. Bookmarked to play with after work :-)
This thing is really awesome! Bookmarked!

Modeling growth acceleration (and number of net adds expected at n% growth) would be very cool. I am also playing around with adding salaries and when, not sure how to add it in this UI, but that's about the only other thing I try and model at the moment.

Hi, great tool! Boils down SaaS modeling to the key metrics that matter.

I'm not sure if you've thought of this / have it in the works, but a way of saving a set of scenarios would be really nice :)

You could probably just store them using a permalink or something

I would love to have a percent growth (e.g.: 10% more customers each month is very different than 100 more customers each month)
Thank you for the feedback. I've added percent growths and I would like to encourage you to try the tool again. Thanks!
It's actually getting pretty accurate, nice!
Hard part is LTV and churn are very hard to predict early. Extreme case everyone's LTV at month 1 is 1 months fee.
I would love if this could show a growth of customers in percentage too.
Yes, great suggestion! I've added it a couple of hours ago. Thanks!
Nice. A couple of thoughts:

- Most businesses have fixed costs, like developer salaries.

- Some products are paid for in arrears (e.g. 30/60 days after invoice)

- Many SaaS businesses have multiple products with different characteristics. You could allow people to add multiple products, each with LTV/CAC/churn etc. If you're feeling ambitious you could even add a way to express 'x℅ of customers using product A this month will upgrade to product B from next month'. Like churn, but adding to a different income stream.