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Solomon: Markup Hero costs about $3,000 monthly to run excluding salaries

Jeff Solomon · Productivity Tool Profits $15k/mo, Bootstrapped team of 3 · Mar 25, 2022 · at 17:23

Jeff Solomon, co-founder of Markup Hero, discusses the operational and hosting costs of running the bootstrapped SaaS product on $20,000 in monthly top-line revenue.

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“Oh, it costs us like three grand a month other than what we pay ourselves to run the hosting costs are, you know, it's very, very nice.”

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