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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: SaaS Metrics Tool Built in 8 Days, Hit $30K MRR
Description: Josh Pigford built a SaaS metrics tool in eight days and launched it without a landing page, blog, or email list. Within eight weeks, he had $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue - and a stranger paying $249 a month for a product he almost kept to himself.
Josh needed SaaS metrics for his own Stripe-based products and found existing SaaS analytics platforms too complex. So he built Baremetrics - a simple SaaS dashboard that pulled MRR, churn, and lifetime value directly from the Stripe API. Five or six paying customers signed up on day one. Within a few months...