Why I built Ripples: a dashboard that just answers "is this working?"

Hey IH!

I'm Leo, founder of Ripples (ripples.sh).

For every project I've built, the same routine kept happening: open Stripe for revenue, open Google Analytics for traffic, open a spreadsheet to try to connect the two, and still not have a real answer to "is this working?" Every analytics tool I tried wanted me to define events and build my own funnel before it would tell me anything useful - way too much setup for a pre-PMF project.

So I built Ripples to skip that step entirely. Add one script tag and you get traffic, signups, payments, and ad-spend payback in a single pre-built dashboard - no event definitions, no funnel building, no "create your first chart" wizard.

Concretely it gives you: real-time visitors and referrers (with Reddit/HN/Twitter shoutout links auto-detected), a pre-built visit-to-signup-to-payment funnel from day one, revenue and MRR pulled straight from Stripe, and ad-spend ROAS/payback per channel from Google Ads.

It's free until your project crosses $1K MRR, then $29/month - you only pay once the thing you're measuring is actually making money.

Would love feedback from anyone here who's also drowning in tabs trying to answer the same question.