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Game Studio Burn & Staffing Benchmark SaaS
A benchmarking and planning platform for mobile game studios that estimates sustainable headcount, burn, and runway based on revenue, genre, live-ops intensity, and operating model. It solves the strongest recurring pain in the discussion: founders do not know whether their team structure fits the economics of a single title.
これが重要な理由
You can have a game that looks healthy on paper and still feel like the studio is drifting toward a wall. Revenue arrives, but payroll, platform cuts, tools, testing devices, and live-ops demands make it unclear whether the team is appropriately sized or dangerously oversized. You do not just need bookkeeping; you need a decision system that tells you what a sustainable studio looks like for your genre and stage. Without that, every hiring decision feels like guesswork, and every month of moderate success can still create anxiety because you cannot tell whether the business model is actually viable.
- · Founders, studio heads, and operations leads at indie and mid-sized mobile game studios with 5 to 50 employees and at least one launched or soft-launched title.向けに構築。
- · 最も可能性の高い収益化モデル: SaaS subscription。
痛み · ナラティブ
You can have a game that looks healthy on paper and still feel like the studio is drifting toward a wall. Revenue arrives, but payroll, platform cuts, tools, testing devices, and live-ops demands make it unclear whether the team is appropriately sized or dangerously oversized. You do not just need bookkeeping; you need a decision system that tells you what a sustainable studio looks like for your genre and stage. Without that, every hiring decision feels like guesswork, and every month of moderate success can still create anxiety because you cannot tell whether the business model is actually viable.
スコア内訳
市場シグナル
市場投入
Founder-operators of mobile free-to-play studios with 10 to 40 staff and one game earning between roughly 20k and 300k per month.
2,000-5,000 studios globally fit this profile closely enough for an initial wedge.
Founder communities and game business newsletters
$299/month
Get 20 studios to upload staffing and revenue inputs and have at least 5 convert to paid plans within 30 days.
MVPの範囲 · 1～2週間
- Build a headcount, burn, and runway calculator with configurable assumptions for salaries, fees, and overhead
- Create benchmark input forms for genre, team composition, revenue band, and live-ops scope
- Design a dashboard that outputs sustainability score and hiring risk scenarios
- Seed the model with public salary ranges and manually curated industry heuristics
- Recruit 10 design-partner studios for anonymous data contribution
- Add comparison views showing recommended team ranges by studio profile
- Implement CSV import for payroll and monthly revenue history
- Generate automated recommendations for staffing reduction, pause, or expansion scenarios
- Launch a gated beta landing page with sample benchmark outputs
- Run onboarding calls and validate whether founders trust the recommendations enough to pay
差別化
失敗する可能性がある理由
自己反論 — 最も重要な信頼のシグナル
- 1Studios may refuse to share sensitive financial and staffing data, preventing benchmark depth
- 2Recommendations may be viewed as simplistic because every studio believes its case is unique
- 3The product may become a periodic planning tool rather than a daily workflow, limiting retention
エビデンスの概要
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This was the most repeated theme by a wide margin, with roughly the high twenties in combined mention frequency across both batches. The discussion consistently centered on the mismatch between a 25-plus-person team and the reported revenue level, with many replies asking what revenue threshold actually supports a studio of that size. That pattern indicates a strong need for benchmarks, not just accounting.
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推奨する次のステップ
開発する
強い需要シグナルを検出。本物の課題と支払い意欲を確認 — MVPの開発を始めましょう。
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見出し
Game Studio Burn & Staffing Benchmark SaaS
サブ見出し
A benchmarking and planning platform for mobile game studios that estimates sustainable headcount, burn, and runway based on revenue, genre, live-ops intensity, and operating model. It solves the strongest recurring pain in the discussion: founders do not know whether their team structure fits the economics of a single title.
ターゲットユーザー
対象：Founders, studio heads, and operations leads at indie and mid-sized mobile game studios with 5 to 50 employees and at least one launched or soft-launched title.
機能リスト
✓ Headcount-to-revenue sustainability benchmarks by genre and business model ✓ Burn runway calculator with store fees, taxes, tooling, and team mix assumptions ✓ Scenario planning for hiring, layoffs, outsourcing, and new project starts ✓ Peer percentile benchmarking using anonymized studio data ✓ Alerts when live-ops staffing appears misaligned with revenue
どこで検証するか
r/r/gamedev にランディングページのリンクを投稿しましょう — そこがこの課題が発見された場所です。
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