My first thought was "oh, this will contribute to already high anxiety levels", mostly because I remember how I reacted to MRR changes:
- MRR went up a bit: "Great, we're on track"
- MRR went down a bit: "THE END IS NEAR!!!!"
At some point, I understood that it was Loss Aversion Bias [1] at play. Once I reframed MRR movements as something fluctuating and neutral, it lost all anxiety-inducing powers.
So this might actually be fairly neat if the business owner has a reasonable approach to this metric.
Solo founder with a SaaS, can confirm. These reactions are REAL. This is why I first thought this app was cool, and later thought that I'm fighting myself every day not to look at my MRR too often.
Any particular reason why this isn't notarised? I realise it's another hoop to jump through (and an annual fee for Apple's developer program), but given that I'm going to connect this thing to my Stripe account it would be nice if it didn't feel like it was avoiding (minimal! easy!) security checks.
For that matter, it's also slightly misleading that you don't call it out as Catalina-only. I'd love to use it (to wit, I've just paid you for it!) but I'm sure there are still lots of folks putting off the upgrade to Catalina.
(Indie game devs especially, since Steam's upload tools are 32-bit).
Came here to say the same thing. The installation b/s gives me the impression this developer doesn’t take releasing MacOS software serious enough to trust them with running code on my machine, let alone having access to highly secure things like payment gateway auth tokens.
Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...
Would be very useful if the website had even a single screenshot that clearly showed the app experience. Yes I know there’s a video (and a rather crude clip of a screenshot at the very bottom of the page), but nothing that clearly just shows what the app looks like easily. As the author, I’d assume it shouldn’t be too hard to mock it out with dummy data rather than blurring out details. If there’s any motion, a gif would be ok, but clearly showing a screenshot with what the menu bar experience looks like would go a long way imho.
I would love to see this also for App Store & Play Store Revenues. That would push me to pay for something like this because it's much harder to get that revenue data in real-time .
Me too, although currently the lowest resolution of reports from Apple via the API is daily sales, no way to get last 24 hours at the moment (which I would be most interested in).
I imagine with an app like this that gives visibility into which SaaS services are making good revenue, it would be very tempting for the app developer to exploit that information and select businesses to start replicating. Or hand the info off to an associate if you want to keep up appearances. Very clever if that’s what’s going on here.
All your Stripe data is stored locally: it is not going anywhere. And I have no intention on tracking any of that.
There are plenty of tools like ProfitWell that provide in-depth Stripe data analysis for free. I simply wanted to see my own SaaS numbers. All. The. Time.
Hey @agustif, (one of) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention!
This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 (https://cashnotify.com/).
However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable.
CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;)
Hey no problem, I think it may help some of the other HN fellow users which weren't so trusty about CashBalance.
If I remember correctly you're on the official App Stores, and also are a stripe verified partner which is a great point to be confident about the proper use of API_KEYs
And sometimes being pricey in software inspires more trust to the buyer, this is also true in any product or service you might need tough
Thanks! CashNotify is a _great_ product, tons of features packed into one cross-platform solution. All I wanted to do is to have the _simplest possible_ implementation: no charts, no stats, no extras. Cashbar is a mobile phone (that can be used for making calls only), CashNotify is a smartphone. All good.
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- MRR went up a bit: "Great, we're on track"
- MRR went down a bit: "THE END IS NEAR!!!!"
At some point, I understood that it was Loss Aversion Bias [1] at play. Once I reframed MRR movements as something fluctuating and neutral, it lost all anxiety-inducing powers.
So this might actually be fairly neat if the business owner has a reasonable approach to this metric.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
For that matter, it's also slightly misleading that you don't call it out as Catalina-only. I'd love to use it (to wit, I've just paid you for it!) but I'm sure there are still lots of folks putting off the upgrade to Catalina.
(Indie game devs especially, since Steam's upload tools are 32-bit).
Need to get it into App Store, sign properly and think of other integrations for sure.
> exploit that information
All your Stripe data is stored locally: it is not going anywhere. And I have no intention on tracking any of that.
There are plenty of tools like ProfitWell that provide in-depth Stripe data analysis for free. I simply wanted to see my own SaaS numbers. All. The. Time.
Thanks!
This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 (https://cashnotify.com/). However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable.
CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;)
Anyway, best of luck to Stas!
If I remember correctly you're on the official App Stores, and also are a stripe verified partner which is a great point to be confident about the proper use of API_KEYs
And sometimes being pricey in software inspires more trust to the buyer, this is also true in any product or service you might need tough