... 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

... 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

... 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 ...