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Tallyfold
Simple revenue numbers for solo founders: MRR, churn and LTV in one calm page
- Score
- 56
- confidence 38
- Evidence
- 2
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 25 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2020
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Solo founders review revenue metrics and financial trends over time at their desk during planning and reporting work. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
This month
Up 6.9% from last month$4,820
- MRR change
About this appAI proposal
Tallyfold connects to your payment account and shows the few revenue numbers a one-person business needs: MRR, ARR, churn, LTV and new versus lost customers. No dashboards to build, no events to wire up, no data team required.
It is made for bootstrapped founders and indie hackers selling software or digital products. Setup is meant to take a few minutes with a read-only connection, and a weekly summary lands in your inbox so you can check the business without opening another tool.
Unlike broad product analytics, Tallyfold only answers revenue questions. Pricing is meant to stay small for small businesses, with a free tier for builders who are just starting to charge.
- Tagline
- Your revenue, folded down to the numbers that matter.
- Voice
- CalmPlainHonest
- Why this name
- A tally counts what comes in; fold suggests packing a lot into something small. It is two plain words that suit a one-person business.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Core revenue metrics
MRR, ARR, churn, LTV and net new revenue, calculated from your payment data and shown on one page.
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Read-only connection
Connect your payment account with a read-only key. Tallyfold never changes charges, plans or customers.
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Plain-language MRR movement
See why MRR changed this month: new, expansion, contraction and churned, with the customers behind each.
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Weekly founder digest
A short email each week with your numbers, the change since last week and any unusual cancellations.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Your revenue, folded down to the numbers that matter.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, kept low for early-stage solo founders, possibly scaled by revenue tracked.
Free
Free
- One product
- Core metrics: MRR, ARR, churn, LTV
- Weekly digest
Solo
$9 a month
- Up to 3 products
- MRR movement detail
- Goal tracking
- Public revenue page
Studio
$24 a month
- Unlimited products
- Higher revenue volume
- Data export
- Priority support
Would you pay Solo · $9 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$190,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Founders who build in public publish a read-only revenue page or share weekly numbers. Each page links back to Tallyfold, so other founders who see it can try it.
- Do they become customers?
- Viewers of a public page are often other founders and could sign up, but this is untested. Test how many page visits turn into free sign-ups and then paid plans.
- First customers
- Bootstrapped solo founders selling a subscription software product through a payment provider, with some paying customers and a habit of sharing their numbers publicly.
- Where to reach them
- Indie maker communities: Share a free tool and a worked example of revenue metrics in maker forums and social groups where founders post their MRR.
- Build-in-public posts: Publish our own Tallyfold numbers openly each month with a link to the public page.
- Open-source alternative users: Reach people comparing self-hosted analytics who would rather not run it, offering a simple hosted option.
- First milestone
- Fifty free sign-ups and ten paying solo founders within 60 days of launch, without paid ads.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 795 stars in 9 days
- Public claimThere is demand for analytics tools specifically positioned for indie hackers and solo founders with a revenue-first focus.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Payment data importRead-only payment provider API with webhooksRevenue metrics are computed from subscription and charge history, so a historical import plus live updates is needed.
- This app · Background jobsScheduled job runnerNightly metric recalculation and the weekly digest need jobs outside web requests.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialAn open-source revenue-first competitor (minilytics) is already gaining attention and is free to self-host. Paying for a hosted version must prove worth the money.
- TechnicalCorrect MRR, churn and LTV from messy subscription data (discounts, pauses, annual plans, refunds, currencies) is hard and errors destroy trust.
- PlatformDepends on payment provider APIs and their terms for read-only access; changes or limits could break imports.
- DataCustomers' financial data is sensitive; a breach or unclear handling would end trust with a small audience.
- CommercialSolo founders have small budgets and may churn quickly, so revenue per customer may stay low.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.