Notes from building CostPad — how we think about unit economics and what we're learning along the way.
We haven't published our first post. Rather than fill this page with filler, here's what we're actually writing about. In the meantime, the changelog tracks every real thing we ship.
Topics drawn from decisions we actually made building CostPad.
Flat monthly costs hide the truth. Separating fixed, per-user, and per-unit costs is the difference between a guess and a model.
Coming soonReporting the margin of your healthiest tier feels good and means nothing. Here's how we blend every tier against the real user mix.
Coming soonA product owns the data. A dashboard is just a view of it. Conflating them was our first mistake — and our first big refactor.
Coming soonWhat it looks like when Claude or Cursor can pull your live subscriber counts, run a what-if, and hand you a recommendation — over MCP.
Coming soonYou don't need the blog to run the numbers. Download CostPad and try it.