Build Your SaaS

Your startup's expenses are too high


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How much does it cost to run a SaaS in 2018? We take a look at our bootstrap expenses.

Every business accrues monthly expenses. The danger? Business owners can get in the habit of spending money, believing that "you gotta spend money to make money."

Transistor's expenses

  • Start up:
    • Logo and branding: $2,500 
    • Stripe Atlas: $500
    • Legal: $366.45  
  • Monthly expenses:
    • Editing: $320 / month
    • AWS: $300 / month
    • Media: $60 / month
  • Yearly expenses:
    • Domain: $100 / year
    • Incorporation: $200 / year
    • Accounting: $2k / year

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Show notes:

  • Patio11's reply to Justin's tweet: "It is far, far, far easier to create something that will increase the revenue of your business by $200 a month than it is to squeeze $200 out of the expenses."
  • Our branding designer is Dylan Wells.
  • Thang Pham

Thanks to our Patreon supporters:

  • Brad from Canada
  • Darby Frey
  • Kevin Markham
  • Adam Duvander
  • Dave Giunta
Thanks to our monthly supporters
  • Pascal from sharpen.page
  • Rewardful.com
  • Greg Park
  • Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
  • Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
  • Bill Condo (@mavrck)
  • Ward from MemberSpace.com
  • Evandro Sasse
  • Austin Loveless
  • Michael Sitver
  • Colin Gray
  • Dave Giunta

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