Reported · from Baremetrics' own public metrics

Baremetrics

Subscription analytics for recurring-revenue businesses — MRR, churn, LTV and failed-payment recovery, read straight from Stripe. Made its own dashboard public and started the Open Startups movement.

baremetrics.com

$125K
reported MRR
+0.7%
last 30 days
1000
customers
$9.0K Dec $125K now+1289% over 88 months
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Hover any month for the exact figure. Solid bars are figures the company published; faded bars are filled in between them.

The timeline

  1. 2020$125K+8.2%
    🛑

    $1.5M ARR and around a thousand customers. Acquired by Xenon Partners for $4M.

    Reported

    MRR then $125K · 1000 customers

    👥

    500 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 1,000.

    👥

    1,000 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 1,000.

    📶

    87 months of growth in a row

    Reported

    The longest unbroken run of month-over-month growth so far.

    🏔️

    Highest month so far: $125K

    Reported

    1000 paying customers.

  2. 2019$116K+9.8%
  3. 2018$105K+15.7%
    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $51K to $103K MRR.

    📰

    Crossed $100K MRR having built in public the whole way — and the founder has since written openly about burning out doing it.

    Reported
    📈

    Crossed $100K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $100K.

  4. 2017$91K+25.1%
    💰

    Passed $1M ARR

    Reported

    $85K MRR, an annual run rate of $1.01739132M.

  5. 2016$73K+33.6%
  6. 2015$54K+50.6%
    📈

    Crossed $50K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $51K.

    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $25K to $51K MRR.

  7. 2014$36K+301.0%

    $30K MRR and 350 customers after a year bootstrapped, then raised $500K.

    Reported

    MRR then $30K · 350 customers

    30 days later$32K+5%
    90 days later$35K+15%
    6 months later$39K+30%
    Today$125K+317%
    👥

    10 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 350.

    👥

    25 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 350.

    👥

    50 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 350.

    👥

    100 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 350.

    👥

    250 paying customers

    Reported

    Reported at 350.

    📈

    Crossed $25K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $25K.

    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $13K to $25K MRR.

    🎯

    $16K MRR six months in. The product demo was the company's own live financials — a metrics company that showed its own metrics.

    Reported
    📈

    Crossed $10K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $13K.

    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $6K to $13K MRR.

  8. 2013$9.0K
    📈

    Crossed $5K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $6K.

    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $2K to $6K MRR.

    ✖️

    Revenue doubled

    Reported

    From $1K to $2K MRR.

    🚀

    Built in eight days as an internal dashboard for the founder's own Stripe account, then launched with no landing page, no blog and no email list. $1K MRR in the first month.

    Reported
    🔌

    Connected revenue

    Reported

    $1K MRR, 0 paying customers — with 82 months of history rebuilt back to $1K.

    🕳️

    Lowest month so far: $1K

    Reported

    0 paying customers.

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