# How is the Business of Discourse Doing...? 🤔
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [9 نوفمبر 2017، 12:53ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731 "2017-11-09T00:53:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 12:53ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/1 "2017-11-09T00:53:28Z")
Just curious about how the business of discourse is doing and what the plans at a super-high level are for world domination (or something equally as cool).
Not looking for revenue figures, but, I was just curious about the state of the union, sotospeak, and organizational-type things outside of big [2.0 release(s)](https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases)…
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 1:26ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/2 "2017-11-09T01:26:35Z")
We’re GROWING and it’s exciting…
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 1:27ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/3 "2017-11-09T01:27:05Z")
LOL. I assumed as much… ! Anything else you can share…? 🙏
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 1:28ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/4 "2017-11-09T01:28:19Z")
Why is the new release going to be named 2.0 instead of 1.10?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 1:30ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/5 "2017-11-09T01:30:55Z")
Because 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 … 20 😉
Growth should be more clear once the team page is available on [www.discourse.org](http://www.discourse.org), I believe @awesomerobot has a goal of finalizing it by the end of the week, if we can!
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### Author:  [@rizka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rizka)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 5:41ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/6 "2017-11-09T05:41:49Z")
This interview @codinghorror gave in May gives some idea.
[https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/discourse](https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/discourse)
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> At our two year anniversary on February 5th 2015, we scaled up our hosting such that we were able to add the $100/month standard hosting plan. By this point we were up to $40,000/month in hosting revenue. As I saw it, we had two jobs:
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> We were finally able to obtain the [discourse.com](http://discourse.com) domain (at considerable expense) on February 5th 2016, and by then we were up to $80,000/month in hosting revenue and our team had grown to nine people, including our first full-time sysadmin. We colocate all our server hardware to offer the best price/performance, and we made big investments in new servers to support our growth.
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> As of today we’re at around $125,000/month in hosting revenue, and we are about to close our first very large client that will nearly grow our income by 25% alone. I expect we’ll easily make it to $160,000/month before 2018.
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The article is a good read as a whole.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 7:14ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/7 "2017-11-09T07:14:59Z")
That was last updated in May when there were 3 co-founders and 8 employees.
I came on in July as employee #14 and we’re now at 20.
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [9 نوفمبر 2017، 2:38م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-is-the-business-of-discourse-doing/73731/8 "2017-11-09T14:38:11Z")
