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Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eirikbakke on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:02PM (#42324062)
The average true cost to acquire a single customer is in the hundreds of dollars, to pay for sales & marketing labor, advertising etc. So $5/month is nearly equivalent to "free" from a business perspective.

https://firstpagesage.com/marketing/average-cac-for-saas-bus...

Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eviks on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:23PM (#42324947)
Why not closer to dozens of dollars like for ecommerce, so about annual revenue per customer?
Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eirikbakke on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:53AM (#42329919)
Databases are B2B products, not consumer products. They are commercially useful only when placed in the context of some larger business process (e.g. tracking customers/orders/goods/users/batches/events/patients/filings etc.).
Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eviks on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:01PM (#42330034)
We're talking about database viewers/editors, not databases in general. But also databases are used plenty in consumer products, e.g., some sqlite file that stores your app's config

And these are consumers:

> definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay

Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eirikbakke on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:07PM (#42330708)
For CAC statistics purposes, if a database is used in a consumer product, then the customer of database-related products is the company that makes the consumer product, not the consumer themselves.

"Software developer" typically refers to an occupation (whether self-employed or working for a corporation), so products for developers would also be classified as B2B rather than B2C.

Re:Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI by eviks on Thursday December 05, 2024 @10:52PM (#42336165)
If you use a database viewer to view sqlite of your shell history, you do not end up in any corporate statistics of a non-existing company making the shell

By the way, another fundamental issue with your link is that it's SaaS, while this is about a desktop app

> so products for developers would also be classified as B2B rather than B2C.

Only if those devs buy it as a business, not individuals like what we're discussing here.

So basically you can't get to any relevant CAC number from your link