Saascast.io

Effortless revenue forecasting for Stripe-based businesses

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Saascast started out life as an internal tool, when we wanted more insight into how we were growing than the Stripe dashboard could provide. We're using it at Quail to help plan our short-term (1-3 month) ad spend.

May 11, 2021 Turned Launch Feedback into Features

After a middling launch last week, I came away with a few dozen trial signups and no paying users but some excellent feedback. Saascast started life as an internal tool and I still use it every day in that capacity, so even if my hopes of a splashily successful launch were dashed I'm thrilled to have gotten some great feedback to help me improve the app.

The best of these was a HN comment asking if the forecasts were the output of an ARMA model. They weren't -- when I launched on HN the forecasts were the output of a hybrid weighted regression -- but now that I've had a few days to do some research I was able to add in a much more powerful forecasting model into Saascast. Thanks, random HN poster, for a pointing me in the direction of some truly excellent mathematics.

Very HN of you, I suppose. But cheers nonetheless! 馃

May 7, 2021 Launched on IH, HN, and Reddit

I just pushed submit on soft-launch posts announcing beta access to Saascast today. Everything looks good -- we've been running with live data for a couple test users for two weeks, and all the tech is working smoothly. Fingers crossed that the HN and IH communities agree that revenue forecasting is worth doing!

April 30, 2021 Turned an internal tool into a product

I realised that I was spending way (way!) too much time working on the in-house metrics dashboard I'd built for Quail, so I decided to pull it out into its' own standalone product. This will be the first (public) test of a whole bunch of in-house tech we've been building for the next generation of Quail's services, so I'm really excited to see how it works out.

Plus, it's been a super useful tool for us, so I'm optimistic that other bootstrappers will find it useful!

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Saascast started out life as an internal tool, when we wanted more insight into how we were growing than the Stripe dashboard could provide. We're using it at Quail to help plan our short-term (1-3 month) ad spend.