Special sauce is an if-this-then-that style decision tree UI where you can connect together a whole whack of prebuilt business logic events together (think Income, Expense, Customers, Growth, Churn, Pricing, Employees, etc) to visually model out scenarios. Miro meets Excel. Unique part is that we run financial simulations through every single possible branch of that decision tree to spit out multiple concurrent outputs.
My background: 25+ years working in visual effects. Everything from District 9 to The Great Gatsby to Tron Legacy. To create all of that, we use very visual, node based type software; flowchart based that is designed for change, iterations and complex pixel calculations over time.
Aha moment was building personal financial models in Excel. Thought “why can’t I use that kind of if-this-then-that type workflow from VFX to build personal or business financial models”.
Bootstrap building for 4+ years. Lots of iterations and pivots. Focus is on business use cases now. Tech stack is React, Typescript, Postgres, Go and Konva for our UI/graphing. AWS behind the scenes.
Definitely a steep but short learning curve. Posted a longer tutorial video at the bottom.
!!!DESKTOP ONLY!!!
Links take you to a GUEST mode when you can click through some starter sample scenarios
- Staffing Reduction Simulation - https://bit.ly/3WN5wIf
- Gaming Studio Case Study: Freemium Revenue Simulation - https://bit.ly/3BTGXj8
- Startup Runway Simulation - https://bit.ly/43wFJ9j
Explainer/Tech Video - https://youtu.be/5p00fS2d3c8