Funny thing is I have known about some of these companies since about a few years. I distinctly remember seeing Ghost's revenue (around $40K) and thinking, "umm.. that doesn't seem much to go around five people."; watching Hubstaff numbers (which was ~$80K/month, I believe), and saying to myself, "that's a very niche software. Would it ever go to make revenue that justifies expenses of a team?" (I think the CEO mentioned that he had taken zero salary since starting the company)<p>I am amazed how far they have come. So, a lesson learned well: If you're starting a company, you're fighting a long, hard battle against pessimists like me.
Add Gumroad? It started out as a Show HN weekend project and I release the numbers every month:<p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/shl/status/1083805607201669120" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/shl/status/1083805607201669120</a><p><pre><code> Gumroad in December:
Volume processed: $5.4M (down 4%)
Revenue: $341K (down 3%)
Gross profit: $135K (up 9%)</code></pre>
Similar to this, I was looking for some inspiration about a landing page, I've found the top 1000 SaaS (<a href="https://saas1000.com/" rel="nofollow">https://saas1000.com/</a>) with some data about them: Location, employees, 6 month growth and if they have some investisors.
Looks interesting!<p>I see Buffer in the list with 100+ Companies with Remote Open Positions and I guess that important to see real information about a company that you'd like to be hired.
When you see Key Metrics of a company, you know how you can grow there and help it to be better.<p>PS Just for info. I found it here.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sr0vy3eDn2fcEhxOdkPv0BjsWBR7JntDJqRM6_hyjbE/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sr0vy3eDn2fcEhxOdkPv...</a>
I made an open revenue page for <a href="https://geocode.xyz/open" rel="nofollow">https://geocode.xyz/open</a>
It is hard to keep it up to date when there are 4 different revenue sources, but it is a good signal to send to customer s saying "hey, we are growing, so you can be more confident working with a company that's going to be still around down the road."
Additional interesting info that would be interesting:<p>1. Headcount history
-- When they added roles
-- What the roles were<p>2. Cost structure history<p>edit: clarify
Wow I did not expect this to blow up so fast! I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, so if you have any please let me know and I'll add them in.
I made a similar open startup list with stories, links and other insights a while ago. I think you will find more startups to pick from that post: <a href="https://standuply.com/blog/saas-startups-reveal-their-journeys/" rel="nofollow">https://standuply.com/blog/saas-startups-reveal-their-journe...</a>
If you want to read content and engage in conversation with folks who boot strap this is a site I found on hacker news a while back that’s been good: <a href="https://barnacl.es" rel="nofollow">https://barnacl.es</a>
I'm like 99% sure that Carrd makes more than $4k/mo [0]. Those numbers in that tweet would put him at around $12k/mo. I could be wrong though.<p>[0]: <a href="https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626</a>
the frontpage of HN can be all the `funding` you need: <a href="https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io?start=2018-01-01&end=2019-01-01" rel="nofollow">https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io?start=2018-01-...</a>
Looks like you can add farmbot to that list: <a href="https://meta.farm.bot/docs" rel="nofollow">https://meta.farm.bot/docs</a>