Hey PH! Excited to FINALLY share Benchmark App with this amazing community of makers, creators, and founders. Here's the quick story of WHY we built Benchmark and HOW it will help you grow your business. It's a firm belief of ours that THE FUTURE BELONGS TO CREATORS...but only if they survive the present. When everything shut down last year, I watched all of my musician and filmmaker friends in the gig economy get hit the hardest. Then it was small businesses, events, everything. People were struggling to stay afloat and find work. Their businesses weren't providing the safety net that they could (or, as some would say, should). I wanted to help but didn't know how. My younger brother, Michael, called me out of the blue in the summer of 2020 and said, "Hey, I want to start a business with you!" Well, ok...but what business? After thinking on it for a few weeks, I realized that we could take my experience as a career creative running my own businesses for 15+ years, and his experience as a data analyst for some of the biggest and most profitable companies around, and make something that could help all of my friends that were suffering. We decided to take a bunch of the spreadsheets I was using to keep track of my business and turn them into something others could use. I had searched for years for a "Business Intelligence Tool" that fit my size business, but everything out there was either too expensive - because it was targeting enterprise clients (I get it, they pay better...) - or had way too many integrations and features and reports so it was a super steep learning curve. I just wanted to track a few important metrics. How much money was I making every day? Was that number going up? What was the weakest part of my sales funnel? Is what I'm doing with my content marketing actually help me build my company? I wanted to know what was working and what wasn't, so I could do more of what worked and stop doing the things that weren't working to grow my business. What's crazy is that just using rudimentary spreadsheets and tracking these numbers over time, my business grew. From 2017-2018, my business doubled. Then it doubled again in 2019. In 2020, while it didn't double, it was in a position to sustain me and my family, and I used the principles and frameworks that I'd learned through the process to start two NEW businesses, including Benchmark App. So, what does that mean for you? Well, some founders and (most) creators hate spreadsheets. They've never done data analysis or used a business intelligence tool before. So why start now? We knew that building another BI tool to compete with massive companies wasn't the path to have the greatest impact for the people we wanted to serve. So we made Benchmark App specifically for founders and creators. A simple tool that helps you focus on what to do right now to grow your business. It gives you insights on your business that helps you see it in a whole new way. A system with lots of parts all working together to deliver a result - your product and service and happy customers. It means that you can tap into the frameworks and principles used by massive companies with entire teams of analysts without paying hundreds (or thousands) of dollars a month. You can do it in minutes every week. It doesn't take hours to learn or understand. We've made it as straightforward as possible so that you can see exactly where the biggest constraints in your business are in seconds. If you've ever worked insanely hard to start and grow your business but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working, Benchmark App helps you solve that problem. You get new clarity and certainty so that you can take action and create the results you've always wanted. What it really means is that you can build a resilient, profitable business that delivers value to your customers and provides the lifestyle you've always wanted. This is our first ever app, and we chose Product Hunt for the launch because we know that the people we built it for are here and will benefit the most from it. You can get started for free today, and you'll get a 60-day trial of the app, no credit card required. It takes about 5 minutes to set up an account, and you'll start seeing insights and understand what's really going in your business like never before. We're here to answer any questions. We truly hope you love the app that we've worked so hard on for you, and that together we can help more founders and creators grow your businesses to have an incredible impact on the world around us. Daren Smith Co-Founder | Benchmark App

Daren Smith

Benchmark App

Maker

4yr ago

Rob Roberts

Looks like a great way for makers who don't like administrivia to keep their businesses on track.

@rob8here that’s the goal! Hoping we’ve built something super easy to use and help people understand their businesses better.

Vivienne Chen

Bubble

Congrats on launching this app! (Heard on the grapevine this was cleverly built with no-code.) Let me know if you want us to feature this on Bubble's blog in our App of the Day series!

@viviennexchen that would be amazing!!! Happy to chat too if an interview would help. It was months of figuring out how to build this thing, where to find the $$$ that developers were asking for. It wasn’t until we found Bubble that we were able to build it for 1/10 the cost, and in about 2 months of time. So grateful for you and your team making an incredible tool to help us get started easier.

Benchmark App

Business dashboard for founders and creators

Business dashboard for founders and creators

Benchmark App

Business dashboard for founders and creators

Business dashboard for founders and creators

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