We are an open company
Last updated 2020-09-20
- We are opening the revenue of our SaaS solution.
- We are using open licenses in our content and teaching materials to promote open exchange and collaboration with other organizations.
- The code for our Data Apps is open source (except for some Specific Premium Data Apps and client related requirements). Check out our dev blog
Datasketch is now an Open Startup
As of today, we are making our metrics public at Datasketch. We expect to get valuable feedback from our users and the data community, and to create open spaces for mutual learning and sharing experiences with other entrepreneurs.
This journey started 10 years ago when I realized that many decisions were being made mostly by gut feeling and very little with evidence. After 2 failures with two previous companies and now 5 years of data science consulting at Datasketch we are happy to launch a public beta of the data visualization and analysis tools that we are building for non-coders.
Throughout the past few years we have implemented several projects for organizations that don’t have access to designers, programmers, or data scientists. Their pains are usually centered around how to get the data they need and how to communicate it properly. We have been able to abstract the recurrent needs of multiple organizations and we have created a, hopefully, simple interface to solve those needs and allow our users to get answers from data in a few clicks.
Now that we are moving to this online phase, we as transparency advocates, will start to publish and document our path to growth with periodic reports. As of now, Datasketch in an Open Startup for our SaaS business, were we will:
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Share statistics about our product usage publicly
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Publish our learnings from the different approaches we take to data-driven growth
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Promote online exchanges with communities of growth hackers
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Comment on our development publicly
It will still take us a few more days to set up all our internal analytics. We will set up our tools so that we can report publicly through a series of posts about the following metrics:
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Revenue per month
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Pageviews
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Recurring costs
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Number of subscribers
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Number of users
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Active users
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Our goals
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New subscribers per day
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And others we come up with that may be relevant
In the meantime, take a look at this chart: it shows the number of registered users on our site. We have close to 600 signups that we have collected over the past few years without a real online product.
There are more or less four discernible peaks in the data, the first one is when I wrote to friends and family asking them to test our idea, the second I don’t really remember, the third when we launched our Kickstarter campaign a year ago, the last peak is the most important one, it corresponds to this month. It has started to grow organically without much effort from our end. We have been so focused on our product in the past few months and have been performing interviews to different stakeholders, we have talked to about 100 people directly to get their feedback on our tools (more on those learnings in the next post), we expect this numbers to climb as we start today our pre-launch campaign.
Please sign up, buy one of our subscriptions with a Super Pre-Launch Discount, and give us feedback on our data visualization platform, we still need to fix a few things before the official launch and we hope we can’t count on you to improve our service for you.
Wish us luck and ping us on social media if you like our open approach.
Cheers,
Juan Pablo - Founder at Datasketch