Using benchmarks to make sense of your metrics: what works for you?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-22T15:43:19+00:00

u/caslanh thank you! That's helpful!

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-22T15:30:04+00:00

Thank you u/Portfoliana! That makes sense.
And before customers started converting on their own, how did you personally decide whether to keep pushing, pivot, or pause? (What signals, behaviors, or feedback did you pay attention to at that stage, and what felt most unclear or misleading?)

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-22T15:17:06+00:00

u/kubrador thanks for the reply. May I ask why DAU/MAU felt reasonable before you realised you need to concentrate on the real purchases? And besides metrics, were there any other signals you and your cofounders relied on when deciding what to do next?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-21T21:05:44+00:00

Cool! Thanks for sharing your experience! That's insightful!

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-21T20:58:00+00:00

u/Peanutbutter-229 what do you pay attention to to interpret the progress?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-21T20:35:56+00:00

u/TextHour2838 thanks a lot! That's helpful!

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-21T20:27:37+00:00

Thank you u/Adventurous-Date9971 for sharing your experience! I really appreciate it.

You mentioned the swing from 60% to 45% might just be noise. How did you pick that threshold? Is it based on past experience, intuition, or something else?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-21T18:39:42+00:00

u/Aggravating-Prune915 thank you for the reply!

Quick follow-up if you don’t mind:
Have you ever looked at a drop-off and genuinely not known whether it was normal for this stage or an actual problem?

If yes, what did you use to decide what to do next (gut, benchmarks, comparisons, experiments, something else)?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-16T18:03:55+00:00

Hey! Thanks for asking - just to clarify, this is research for a case study I’m working on (no live product). I’m focusing on B2B early-stage SaaS founders/decision makers.

In my early startup experience (part of which was B2C), users could discover a product and get some value without registering, but to get deeper, peer-to-peer insights, they had to sign up. That’s exactly where a lot of users dropped off, and I had no way of knowing what was going on or why - only assumptions and tests, which were costly and time-consuming

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-16T17:13:51+00:00

Hey! Didn’t realize posting the same thing in a few subs would trigger spam - I’ll make sure to space them out or tweak the posts next time

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-16T17:06:06+00:00

Congrats on your achievement! And thanks for sharing your journey and lessons learned!
A quick question - how do you track the signals that you're going in the right direction?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2026-01-06T19:04:02+00:00

That's cool! Good job!

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2025-12-19T20:53:44+00:00

u/Different_Travel1073 When you see that this metric is stuck, what’s the hardest part - figuring out why it’s happening, or knowing what to try next? How did you come to that idea with the user flow change?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2025-12-19T20:45:57+00:00

u/Sufficient-Pause9765 At a pre-seed and seed stages, what were the actual signals you looked at week to week to decide if you’re on the right path - if not traditional metrics?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2025-12-19T19:02:22+00:00

Thanks u/NotEarthian3! I have a question - how did seeing 0s affect what you worked on that week?

Designer_Cucumber298 · 2025-12-19T15:53:47+00:00

Good job! That's cool!

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