One of the things really interesting services trigger is other interesting services built on top of it. It was that thinking that had me looking at Baremetrics, “Analytics & Insights for Stripe”. This is the type of data everyone who deals with money wants to see.
Beyond that they offer something that is definitely outside the box: public revenue dashboards. In the past I’ve come across dashboards for Buffer and Ghost. baremetrics.com/open has a list of sites with public dashboards, including Baremetrics itself. Not every company wants to be so transparent with money matters, for those that do Baremetrics has made it very easy.
I wonder how Stripe thinks about Baremetrics. There is the traditional corporate method: Stripe should acquire them and offer the analytics as an add on themselves. Then others put forward the idea that having a thriving third party ecosystem is more important for the long term health and survival of Stripe.
Which approach would you take?