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How to Pull Off a Startup Retreat
Updated April 23, 2026In mid-January we did our first retreat as a team. Since we’re completely remote, this was the first time most of our team had met and worked with each other face-to-face. I’ll take you through how...
How we grew from $0 to $25,000/month in 12 months
Updated August 24, 2026One year after Baremetrics was launched, we hit $25,000 in monthly recurring revenue. I’ve tried a lot of things to grow the company over the past year. A few things have worked well. A lot of things...
How I hired a team of 6 without having a clue what I was doing
Updated August 23, 2026Last week I wrote about our experience going from bootstrapped to funded, why it was good for our business and some of the things we’ve learned along the way. I mentioned there were some big shifts...
Bootstrapped to Funded: What’s it like? Was it worth it? Should you do it?
Updated April 23, 2026What’s it like going from a decade of bootstrapping to running a funded business? And what’s it like _transitioning_ a business that started out bootstrapped to having a pile of cash at my disposal?...
New Feature: Multi-Currency Support
Updated August 24, 2026Since launching over a year ago, we’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of businesses all around the globe. Many of them accept payments in multiple currencies, and today I’m excited to...
Customer satisfaction scores are a waste of time
Updated April 23, 2026One of the first things I did after joining Baremetrics was get us setup with Help Scout. While working through getting it setup, I paused when I reached the satisfaction surveys, and decided not to...
Inside Baremetrics: November 2014 – $25k MRR, 11% growth & stabilized churn
Updated April 23, 2026Sweet baby rabbits it’s been a long time since I’ve written one of these. Four whole months. Way. Too. Long. At any rate, here we are and my how things have changed since our last Inside Baremetrics.
How to Be Customer Support Employee #1
Updated April 23, 2026So, you've landed yourself a new gig running customer support at a snazzy up-and-coming startup. Congratulations! There's a ton of content out there about building a startup, but not a ton for...
The Startup Guide to Hiring a Remote Customer Support Rep
Updated October 16, 2026We recently hired someone to head up Customer Support. It took 3 months, 808 applications and 18 interviews before we found a solid fit. Who knew hiring for customer support would be so tedious?!?! I...
How to have an overnight success in 10 short years
Updated August 23, 2026“Overnight success” is a phrase people love to throw around. It’s the pipe dream every inexperienced entrepreneur hopes for and thinks will come to them. That same phrase has been tacked on to the...
How we scored Baremetrics.com for $616
Updated August 24, 2026A couple of weeks ago, after 11 months of work, I finally snagged Baremetrics.com for an entirely reasonable $616. Here’s how that played out.
One Year Later: $20k/mo, 250 customers, 5 people and a $500k investment
Updated April 23, 2026One year ago today I was sitting in my office at home racking my brain trying to find some easier way to get the metrics I wanted for 2 SaaS companies I was running. Nothing I found fit the bill. So,...
Unlimited Team Members for Everyone
Updated August 24, 2026Over the past year of building Baremetrics, something we've found to be critical of improving your metrics is having your entire team on board and focused on the same goals. The more your team can...
Take the SaaS Metrics Survey and Benchmark Your Metrics
Updated April 23, 2026One of the hardest parts of running a business (especially a new one) is knowing if you're even starting to maybe possibly sort of kind of head in the right direction with your metrics. My LTV is...
Stripe Fund Invests $500,000 in Baremetrics
Updated April 23, 2026It’s a really exciting day here at Baremetrics! I’m stoked to announce that General Catalyst has invested $500,000 in Baremetrics, as part of a new fund they’ve created for businesses on Stripe. What...
New Feature: Customer Profiles
Updated April 23, 2026Since launching 10 months ago, Baremetrics has largely taken a high-level approach to your metrics, showing you a 40,000-foot view of how your business is doing financially. Today, we’re bringing...
Hubstaff Public Dashboard: A remote startup’s journey from $0 to $11,000/mo
Updated April 23, 2026Dave and Jared started Hubstaff nearly two years ago and have finally started getting some traction on revenue. They manage a team of over a dozen folks to help build their business and have...
Storemapper Public Dashboard: Building a $50,000 Business
Updated August 23, 2026A couple of years back, Tyler Tringas spotted a need while doing freelance work building tools for Shopify merchants. Many of his clients wanted a store locator on their site to show their customers...
Inside Baremetrics: July 2014
Updated August 24, 2026July was a solid “heads down getting junk down” month for us. If we want to get geeky for a minute, we had over 200 code commits and added some 5,000 new lines of code. Yay vanity metrics! In...
How We Increased Customer Loyalty by 125% in 6 Hours
Updated April 23, 2026Recently, I sent out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey to all Baremetrics users. I was hesitant at first but it quickly surfaced the areas where we were really excelling as well as areas we needed to...
How Hacker News Generated $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue
Updated August 23, 2026A couple of months ago Baremetrics had an absurd amount of growth, adding $5,000 in new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) for a revenue increase of nearly
Hiring: Customer Support
Updated April 23, 2026Everyone's got clever names for positions within their company, so why not jump on the bandwagon, right? We're hiring an Agent of Awesome here at
4 Signs Your SaaS Business is Dying
Updated April 23, 2026Having spent the better part of a decade building various businesses (B2B, B2C, e-commerce, digital goods, SaaS), I’ve found there are a number of
Why an “Unlimited” Plan is Toxic for Your SaaS
Updated April 23, 2026Pricing products is hard. It's one of the most difficult decisions you'll make when creating any type of product (SaaS or otherwise), as there's no "easy"
Startup Chat: Pricing, Free Plans & Trials
Updated August 27, 2026Hot on the heels of last week's Startup Chat, this week we talked about pricing, free plans and trials and had all sorts of fun. I tried hard to keep this