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baremetrics.com is the company blog at baremetrics.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2015, 94 different Hacker News readers have linked it 130 times, most often “Open Startup: startups sharing key business metrics in the open”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Open Startup: startups sharing key business metrics in the open11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-11-02
- Open Startups Initiative9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-04-23
- /8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-04-01
- How fast SaaS companies hit ARR milestones5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
- Baremetrics shuts down Intros4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-28
- I sold Baremetrics4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-10
- Open Benchmarks: Live SaaS Metric Benchmarks4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-24
- “I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m”4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-12-03
- Build vs. Buy Calculator4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-09-09
- Navigating the long, slow SaaS ramp of death4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-06-21
What Hacker News says?
FWIW - I remember reading about the founder of Baremetrics being able to buy Baremetrics.com via this service. Impressive because Baremetrics (which used to be on baremetrics.io) had received a $500K funding by the time he wanted to buy the .com for his company name. GoDaddy seems to have brokered the deal for $616. Source - https://baremetrics.com/blog/scored-baremetrics-dot-com
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on “Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com”Submitted I sold Baremetrics as a story · 818 points
HN discussionI have sold a business as well, and I have to admit I am very surprised by this response, too. Not only does Josh divulge information that most founders are legally forbidden from ever revealing, he also was always extremely open about the journey of the business, even facilitating the [Open Startups]( https://baremetrics.com/open-startups ) page, where Baremetrics itself is listed. What surprises me most is the lac…
Comment linking /open-startups
on “I sold Baremetrics”- cj · 2020-01-10
Submitted I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M as a story · 428 points
HN discussion Salaries? https://baremetrics.com/blog/why-we-spent-250000 > We aren’t spending Silicon Valley-amounts on salaries, but we’re certainly not on the low end. From the perspective wanting my team to love where they work and not have to worry about money, I’m very happy with the salaries everyone gets.
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on “I sold Baremetrics”Submitted Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog as a story · 385 points
HN discussionIt's a trend, yes: - https://baremetrics.com/open-startups - https://openstartuplist.com/
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on “My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR”Submitted SaaS Financial Model as a story · 221 points
HN discussionFair enough! 2017 was a tough year for us (especially May to December). You're correct that we launched very few improvements in that time. On the backend we were doing a complete rewrite, which ultimately set the stage for us to roll out really powerful new features like Segmentation ( https://baremetrics.com/features/segmentation ) which launched a couple of months ago. Since January we've been on a roll, releasin…
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on “Stripe Billing”Submitted How our freemium plan failed as a story · 218 points
HN discussion@pc Any thoughts on either acquiring https://baremetrics.com/ or creating similar functionality within Stripe? Seems like a natural extension to Billing to also have Revenue Analytics.
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on “Stripe Billing”Submitted Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks (2017) as a story · 174 points
HN discussion> they can’t turn a profit, and for any hope to turn profit they need this continual growth at a loss, and at some point the investors dump the bag on the public getting a return in a bubble they created and let the public fund the losses. Could you provide some data to show that companies which, at IPO, have any cumulative loss or a very large cumulative loss (as a percentage of valuation or offering size), perform…
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on “Slack S-1”Submitted Why founders need hobbies as a story · 155 points
HN discussionA lot of b2b services have adopted that design style. https://www.octobat.com/ - https://baremetrics.com/ - https://www.intercom.com/ More I can't think of right now...
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on “How Stripe Designs Websites”Submitted How founders can write a quality blog post in 1 hour as a story · 79 points
HN discussionPost about that: https://baremetrics.com/blog/long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death
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on “Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories”Submitted How we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSoftware Engineer @ Baremetrics // Remote Baremetrics is the leading analytics tool for Stripe. We are a small, tightknit, completely remote team. Learn more about us at https://baremetrics.com/ We are looking for an experienced engineer to help make Baremetrics even better. We are growing quickly and are at the point where we need to adjust the architecture to handle the growth. These are exciting times with intere…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100k saving money as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThat's great then! BannerBear actually fits into OP's desire to be making $1-1.5k in 13 months! Kidding aside - yes, I get it. SAAS products take a while and are hard. According to BareMetrics, after a year most companies are making $3333 in MRR [0]. But if you're living in a 3rd world country that's usually plenty of cash if you've got decent margins. The spirit of including BannerBear was more like "think about th…
Comment linking /blog/how-fast-saas-companies-hit-arr-milestones
on “Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?”Submitted “I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m” as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou might want to read this: https://baremetrics.com/blog/i-sold-baremetrics [1] Xenon Partners, who acquired Baremetrics has a "Playbook". The guy who is shown in the twitter image is Brian Sierakowski ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/briansierakowski/ ) who is in charge of running the "Xenon Playbook" for Baremetrics. What Xenon does is acquire floundering / stagnating / doing ok SaaS companies from founders who want…
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on “Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel”Submitted Open Benchmarks: Live SaaS Metric Benchmarks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBaremetrics is not just a startup anymore. Last month, they were sold to Xenon Partners, a private equity firm that applies the same aggressive sales strategy to all of the companies in its portfolio. That excuse no longer holds. https://baremetrics.com/blog/i-sold-baremetrics https://xenon.io
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on “Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel”Submitted Open Startups Initiative as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBear in mind that Baremetrics removed self-serve account cancellation back in 2015. The founder admits in a blog post that it’s to reduce churn, and reduce churn it did, by 15%. https://baremetrics.com/blog/how-we-reduced-churn
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on “Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel”Submitted Step-by-Step: Creating amazing GIFs to announce new features as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think he means if we are using their "Recover" product which I explained in my email that we absolutely don't use it. https://baremetrics.com/features/recover
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on “Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel”Submitted Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100,000 saving money as a story · 6 points
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