If you aspire to run an indie software business like this, you might want to take note of how absolutely <i>boring</i> most of the success in this space is.<p>Web analytics is boring. Cron job monitoring is boring. Running a backup service is boring. These businesses (the cron one is mine) are all doing great, making millions. But in this space the vast majority of devs are chasing fun and cool projects in web3 and AI that are more tied to cool ideas than actual business problems.<p>Businesses are, mostly, boring things. They have boring problems. If you’re doing something too interesting there’s a good chance you’re just playing around
Not sure if it’s touched on but one cofounder focuses on product while the other focuses on marketing. Cannot stress enough how much of a winning formula this is
I used plausible and it was great. Then I found Beam analytics, which is a copycat with a better free plan.
I switched in no time to Beam Analytics now.<p>I would be more worried about copycats. When you share your success, other developers want to have it too.<p>Even if you believe you are for the long run you lose money in the short term because of your ego.
I like what Plausible is doing, and they definitely know how to make content marketing work, but I'm going to be honest - the pricing model they're using is a bit out of this world. On top of everything else you have to pay (subscribe for) on the web these days, paying $500 a year for 500k monthly pageviews is <i>insane</i>!<p>Now, obviously, my opinion doesn't hold a lot of weight by itself because it seems that they're quite profitable, but I will never understand that kind of pricing for something so basic.
Here's an interview with Plausible (an alternative to Google Analytics) co-founder Marko on the journey of going from 0 to $1.2m in ARR and building as much as possible in public
Recently switched to Plausible from GA for my blog. Analytics are way easier to use compared with GA4. Probably would not have even considered switching if they would have left universal analytics. Privacy stuff and performance we're secondary bonuses. Worth every penny.
I always feel a bit depressed that so many of these microbusinesses seem focused on sales pipeline stuff. I get it, but at one point it feels like money just kind of sloshing around between various salestech companies.
I am a paying PA customer and I love the service but I am kinda surprised they only just reached those figures. They have great market awareness in my circles but it just goes to show that developers are stingy and conservative and it's a hard market to do well in. If feel they should b making 10x this number by now given they are internationally known and the biggest alt to a gigantic usecase