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Baremetrics public dashboard demo as trust page

Use your own live product data as the demo when trust and immediacy matter more than a sanitized sample account.

rare tactic low budget Conversion, Trust, Product-Led Growth Stages: conversion, public demo, trust, product-led growth

Why this can grow a startup

A fake demo often proves the UI, not the outcome. Baremetrics made its own dashboard public because it needed a live demo of what the product could do. That decision opened conversations and became a direct conversion asset: visitors to the demo were 5.5 times more likely to become customers. The move worked because the product category was metrics. Showing the company’s own numbers made the promise tangible and a bit vulnerable. For analytics, AI ops, finance, and creator tools, a real demo can answer the buyer’s hidden question: does the founder trust this enough to use it in public.

Key metric to watch

Baremetrics reported that visitors to its public dashboard demo were 5.5 times more likely to become customers.

Ian's take

From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. For conversion, I would strip the test down to one promise, one proof point, and one next step. Confusion kills good demand. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.

Action plan

  1. Define one narrow startup segment where baremetrics public dashboard demo as trust page can create a measurable lift.
  2. Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Conversion and Trust channel.
  3. Use the evidence from baremetrics.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
  4. Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
  5. Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.

Source-backed example

Baremetrics made its own Baremetrics dashboard public as the product demo, and demo visitors were 5.5x more likely to become customers.

Source: Baremetrics: From $0 to $25K MRR (baremetrics.com)

GrowthDex source hub: Baremetrics: From $0 to $25K MRR

Last checked: 2026-06-07T03:06:38.102Z

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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.

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