Show HN: Effortless revenue forecasting for SaaS businesses(saascast.io)
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Show HN: Effortless revenue forecasting for SaaS businesses
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Are these the mean forecast based on some ARMA model? Why not include some type of confidence interval also? This something I would want to know as a user.
Not an ARMA model, but exposing more information about the output of the model (and giving you more knobs to twist to explore hypotheticals) is definitely coming soon.
It's wild that their demo is a real customer
>This is a read-only view of real growth data from a Saascast customer — don't worry; they don't mind sharing it with you!
I wonder if it'd be easy to tell based on the payment amounts and whatnot who the customer is!
>This is a read-only view of real growth data from a Saascast customer — don't worry; they don't mind sharing it with you!
I wonder if it'd be easy to tell based on the payment amounts and whatnot who the customer is!
This looks really cool! I think for me to want to use this instead of a spreadsheet, I'd want a clear view of all the assumptions and constants that are going into the model and to be able to modify and experiment with those. Imho forecasts are only really useful when presented alongside the assumptions they're based on. Otherwise they tend to come across as astrology.
Yep, making the forecasts more interactive -- giving you more control over the weights and priors that go into them -- is very definitely on my near-term backlog. They are a bit astrology now, which is...quite a damning description, and one I definitely don't want to keep true!
The demo says it's using data from one of their customers - on the trials page, I can see 4 email addresses that presumably belong to their prospective customers. They look like real email addresses, so if so, you probably want to not show those.
Ah, well, that's awkward. They're OK with it, but you're absolutely right -- and we've pushed a quick fix to hide those. Thanks for the heads-up!
Very nice, I +1 the desire to see more details on the calculations.
What's the long term plan for this? A saas / an api / open source? It'd be nice to have integrations with other tools (e.g., I'm thinking to our saasform).
What's the long term plan for this? A saas / an api / open source? It'd be nice to have integrations with other tools (e.g., I'm thinking to our saasform).