... Something that bothered me for a while: almost every "ramen profitability calculator" I found online just does total expenses ARPU. That's it. But that number has three holes in it: 1. Payment processing: Stripe takes 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction before you see anything. On a $29/mo plan that's $1.14 gone per customer per month before you've paid for a single thing. 2. Variable infrastructure costs: Your database reads, API calls, storage these scale with users ... ... this: outputs real minimum MRR and exact customer count with a full cash flow waterfall breakdown. Just launched it on Product Hunt today if anyone wants to check it out or upvote: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Curious what did your ramen

... that smaller products spread the risk and throw off extra income toward buying a house. Because none of the bets are existential, the math feels a lot more forgiving than going all-in on one thing On focus vs. spread, I d say it s less either/or and more about sequencing: build one product to a real footing first, then layer in the next, rather than splitting attention across ten on day one. Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): focus wins ... ... agents collapse the maintenance cost once something is working, not the build and launch cost. you still need real attention to get each product to first traction. so the honest answer is probably: build one, get it to ramen

... Product Hunt! I'm Alberto an 18 year old builder from Jamaica and I just launched the Ramen Profitability Calculator on Product Hunt. Most founders Google 'how many customers do I need to survive?' and get blog posts. I built a calculator that actually answers it. Plug in your monthly personal expenses, your product's price and your churn estimate, and it spits out your exact ramen

... everyone I'm Paul. I run a food business (ramen program for universities) and spend way too much of my day replying to emails. Not reading them that part's fast. It's the blank reply box that kills me. Last year I started building Drafted, a Mac app that pre-drafts Gmail replies using AI. The twist: it runs 100% locally on your machine and never auto-sends anything. Every draft waits for you to review, edit ...

... know what you find once you settle on your first project! Excited to see the results. Comment from Douglas Li(@dougli): Super cool! Just installed, gonna check this out :). Any backstory on the name though? I love eating tonkotsu ramen but really curious why you decided to name your company this. Comment from Bhavin Sheth(@allinonetools_net): Congrats on the #1 well deserved. The framing of devs as managers of agent teams really resonates. That shift feels real ... ... first on a multi-agent refactor or greenfield prototype. Excited to see how the UI evolves based on real usage. Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): Tempted to build an agentic coding harness. dw it won't be a competitor

... marks the year, I am going solo! My employment ended, and I am focussing on my own projects and some consulting going forward. Exiting times ahead! Personal Goals: Focus on my health Travel the world Work Goals: Become ramen profitable! Comment from Uchenna Nwaorgu(@uchenna_nwaorgu): Work Goals Launch Trevidia on product hunt Reduce Screen time to reasonable levels, while still achieving the task for the day Personal goals Swim once every week. Spend more time with family. Comment from ...

... that taught me more than the wins) How I can help you: Turning fuzzy ideas into evidence-backed product roadmaps R&D MVP v1 workflows that keep scope (and sanity) in check Hiring & scaling teams on a ramen budget Taking a product from local traction to multi-country launch Fun fact: When the laptop snaps shut you ll find me trimming sails. Who s up for a PH flotilla weekend? Your turn: What s one underrated habit that ... ... test the top suggestions and share results! Comment from Debarghya Roy(@debarghyaroy): Love that you re tackling wellness without the shame spiral , that s a rare balance. Curious how will you measure if a nudge truly changes behavior versus

... artist, tinkerer, and storyteller across pixels, film frames, and guitar strings lol. I just submitted my Proposal - Tokyo Memory Map for the Tokyo Biennale 2025 Open Call. Imagine wandering Tokyo s neon-lit streets at midnight, ducking into a ramen shop, stumbling upon a street musician, all things you only notice when you've truly walked the city all stitched together into a living, breathing map. Tokyo Memory Map crowdsources photos, videos, sketches, and music from locals, revealing the hidden ...

... folks, I m building SaaS product on a ramen budget. The painful surprise? My burn on must have SaaS and Cloud is eclipsing what I can put into marketing and product. I keep hearing legends about founders stacking thousands in AWS credits or discounts. But every blog post feels dated or locked behind an accelerator gate. If you ve personally snagged legit credits (not referral spam), could you share: Which programs or partners did you use incubators, VCs, perk platforms ...

... made it easier than ever to build and ship with a small team and no funding- but is that a better playbook than raising VC? I see it from both sides: Getting to production, ramen profitability, etc. seems easier than ever. Yay bootstrapping. Because it's so easy, getting blown out of the water by a VC-funded competitor

... this time around. Do things like cost of living and other factors play into this? Comment from Justin Wiguna(@justinwiguna): @waseem_daher How do you think about how founder compensation should change when the company raises a new round vs when the company is actually doing really well so therefore, doesn't need to raise? Should founders who manage to run a profitable business pay themselves more even if they've only ever raised a small seed round? Comment from ... ... daher  is $3M-10M still early stage? Comment from Sophia L.(@sophialgrowth): @siddharthpereira  So true. Comment from Sarah Evans(@prsarahevans): @waseem_daher  do you think we will continue to see a wider gap in AI startups versus

... most valuable '23 lesson you can not grow without trying something new. We reached Ramen profitability with https://www.makerbox.club/ (marketing resources for Solopreneurs) in '22 and decided to double down on what works. The formula was clear: 1. come up with a new product idea 2. build it in public on Twitter 3. launch on Product Hunt 4. acquire users with tweeting, newsletter featurings, writing guest articles, and being active in communities (Indie Hackers & Product Hunt discussions) 5. write valuable ...

... your product enough to lay down money for it. That s further than most products get. You now have permission to dive deeper. The next most important milestone is $10k MRR . Assuming you have expenses in check, this is ramen-profitable for most people and it unlocks huge potential because now time is your side. The constant daily urgency can be traded out for more controlled, longer-term thinking. This is where momentum-building really gets going ...

... When you are just rolling out your new big thing, do you really care about how much money you burn? Do you track your expenses and do you generally plan ahead? Do you set aside some ramen money or just let it roll? Especially if you are bootstrapped? How do you link your revenue and expense? How do you track your userbase behavior ...