Profitably
Finance and crypto
business planning forecasting
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How HN took it
1 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat little app; setup wizard quick and usable
From 1 comment
This is a neat little app. Went through the whole setup wizard in about 10 minutes, I could see myself playing with the different channels and adding more data as I have it for…
scottkrager on HN
Integrations with many tools are impressive
From 1 comment
You have a very impressive list of tools you integrate with. Minor bug: the "Watch the Planning Intro" box doesn't grow when the text size does; it just cuts off the text. Mind…
JoshTriplett on HN
Objections
Requires making many guesses for metrics, so unclear usefulness from scratch
From 2 comments
I guess I don't see the point of this tool. You have to make wild guesses for every single metrics in there. Is it a MBA thing? Do people really find this useful? EDIT: Maybe I…
cedsav on HNOk. I can see myself using this for my business, since I have some solid data for most metrics. I could then get a better sense of the kind of impact improving one metric or…
cedsav on HN
Back button broken by redirect to dashboard hash
From 3 comments
This site rendered my back button useless and trapped me on the site.
jgmmo on HNNo, it just seems to have a redirect from plan_ahead to plan_ahead#dashboard that breaks the back button (at least on Firefox 3.6.20, Linux). (I'm not sure what the original…
pbh on HNNo matter how many times I pushed back I could not come back to the HackerNews article. I just cannot go backwards from the dashboard. This page =…
jgmmo on HN
Video embed uses Flash and the intro box clips text
From 1 comment
You have a very impressive list of tools you integrate with. Minor bug: the "Watch the Planning Intro" box doesn't grow when the text size does; it just cuts off the text. Mind…
JoshTriplett on HN
Requests
Integration with analytics and QuickBooks
From 1 comment
This is a neat little app. Went through the whole setup wizard in about 10 minutes, I could see myself playing with the different channels and adding more data as I have it for…
scottkrager on HN
Line charts for visualisation
From 1 comment
Some basic line charts would add a nice visual I think as well. I could see myself using this while trying to raise money ("oh, you think our customer acquisition cost is going…
scottkrager on HN
Ad spend forecasting
From 1 comment
You know what I want? Ad spending forecasting. If I spend a dollar more on display ads what am I going to get from it.
rokhayakebe on HN
HTTPS support
From 1 comment
How about https instead of http?
mattvot on HN
Questions
Can you share finished examples?
From 1 comment
Can you share some finished examples?
harryf on HN
Is it for established businesses or starting a business?
From 1 comment
I guess I don't see the point of this tool. You have to make wild guesses for every single metrics in there. Is it a MBA thing? Do people really find this useful? EDIT: Maybe I…
cedsav on HN
Alternatives named
Excel spreadsheet models
From 2 comments
Definitely NOT an MBA thing. :-) This is for startups and small businesses alike. Most people are modeling their businesses with an Excel file, and they are making the wild…
adamrneary on HNA lot of startups and small businesses wind up with a crazy Excel model where they model their assumptions around things like revenue forecast. We built this to track the…
gsiener on HN
BuySellAds
From 1 comment
Just through buysellads, but i spent a few hours trying to figure out what combination of CPM, CTR, and Conversion rate would make sense for us.
rokhayakebe on HN