JavaScript · MIT
yihui-dev/how-profitable-startups-grow
How profitable startups grow: 740+ real startups by verified revenue band, growth trend, founder, and how each acquires customers. Updated weekly.
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7 forks · 0 open issues
+64/day
Growth · lifetime avg
Average since the repo was created — it is young enough that this still describes now. Not a recent-week figure.
55.6
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
4d ago
Created
last push 3d ago
Star history
Only 1 snapshot so far — we started watching
this repository on 2026-11-05.
The chart appears once there are two days to compare.
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 34.6 | +64/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 0.0 | needs 7-day and 30-day rates side by side |
| Freshness | 15 | 15.0 | last push 3d ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 6.0 | 117 stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 55.6 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | awesome-listbuild-in-publicentrepreneurshipgrowth-hackingindie-hackersmarketingmicro-saasmrrsaasstartups |
| Matched on | SaaS (saas) Learning & Roadmaps (awesome-list) |
| Short window | no snapshot 5–10 days old yet |
| Long window | no snapshot 14–45 days old yet |
| Lifetime average | 63.67 stars/day over 2 days |
| First seen here | 2026-11-05 |
| Last read | 2d ago |