Marc Lou: DataFast took 8 months to reach $3K MRR
Marc Lou says DataFast needed eight months to clear $3K MRR and has now plateaued around $30K. Arvid Kahl says the fix for slow, painful revenue is a $50 floor.
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Marc Lou says DataFast took 8 months to hit $3K MRR, now plateaued at $30K
Marc Lou marked DataFast's birthday by saying the first eight months took it to $3K MRR, and after this year's growth it has plateaued around $30K MRR. He says the analytics tool is now tracking roughly 220 million page views a month. His own read: building a SaaS is hard and takes time.
The initial growth was really slow (8 months to $3K MRR), but I'm happy I pushed through because it taught me so much!
Stolen playbooks
Arvid Kahl: set the entry tier at $50 to filter out your worst customers
Arvid Kahl says a $50 pricing floor is segmentation, not greed: people who pay $50 would also pay $10, but few $10 buyers go the other way, and the cheap ones are the most demanding.
Reducing prices tends to hurt revenue and your sanity. Increasing prices does the opposite in most cases.
What changed under us
Perplexity adds /impeccable, a skill that design-reviews your agent-built UI
Aravind Srinivas says /impeccable is now a skill inside Computer, an open-source skill by @pbakaus meant to stop interfaces looking AI-generated. Perplexity's account says it reviews an interface and fixes what a designer would flag, checking layout, type, contrast and accessibility, and tasks using it are free through October 31 up to 5,000 credits per user.