The short answer
RevenueBug is a self-service option for founders who want to turn provider-reported revenue into a public, shareable listing. It combines a daily revenue plot, public startup discovery, support for payment and app-revenue providers, optional product identity privacy, and an acquisition-inquiry flow.
It should be evaluated on those specific jobs—not as a universal replacement for every analytics dashboard, accounting system, marketplace, or verification product. TrustMRR and RevenueBug are independent services, and TrustMRR’s current capabilities should be confirmed from its own website and documentation.
What RevenueBug is designed to do
A founder begins with a product URL. RevenueBug verifies the website metadata, checks a provider credential, confirms the available provider scope, and creates the listing only after validation succeeds. The resulting page shows revenue history rather than a manually entered headline number.
Public listings include trailing-30-day revenue, lifetime revenue, 30-day window change movement, and a daily revenue plot. They can appear in the startup directory, categories, recent listings, and revenue leaderboard. Each listing also has a shareable card and generated social image.
RevenueBug is self-service. The provider connection acts as the evidence for creating the listing, while an account email receives the management link used to return and update it.
Provider support beyond a single payment processor
RevenueBug currently supports:
- Stripe at the connected account scope;
- Lemon Squeezy at a selected store;
- Polar at the organization scope;
- RevenueCat for a selected app and its active products;
- Dodo Payments at a selected brand;
- Whop at the business-account scope.
These boundaries matter. An account or organization can contain several products, so a provider-connected number is not automatically product-level revenue. RevenueBug documents the credential, scope, refund, dispute, and currency limitations on each integration page.
What “verified” means—and what it does not mean
On RevenueBug, verified means that the displayed revenue was derived from data returned by the connected provider. The credential is processed server-side and stored encrypted. Raw credentials are never placed in a public listing response.
Verification is not an audit. It does not prove company ownership, profitability, expenses, customer satisfaction, intellectual-property ownership, or that every transaction belongs to the product named on the page. Buyers should treat it as stronger evidence than a manually typed claim, but still perform independent financial, legal, customer, and technical diligence.
RevenueBug’s cross-provider headline is trailing-30-day provider-reported revenue. It is not always subscription MRR. Annual prepayments, usage charges, lifetime sales, and one-time purchases can make the two figures diverge. The complete calculation boundary is available in the RevenueBug methodology.
Public proof with an identity-privacy option
RevenueBug listings are public by default because the product is designed for discoverable revenue proof. Founders who do not want the product identity displayed can hide the name, domain, description, favicon, and logo from public surfaces while leaving revenue visible.
This is identity privacy, not a private analytics mode. Revenue remains public, and identity-hidden profiles can still appear in search engines. A founder who needs a completely private internal dashboard should use a product designed for private analytics instead.
A direct path from revenue proof to acquisition interest
A founder can mark an identified listing for sale and optionally publish an asking price. RevenueBug then adds a visible “For Sale” label and a private contact form. Buyer inquiries are relayed to the seller’s account email without exposing that email publicly.
RevenueBug does not broker, escrow, value, or close the transaction. Asking prices are seller-provided and are not completed-sale evidence. Founders can use the valuation calculator to model assumptions, while buyers can use the acquisition ROI calculator before conducting full diligence.
When RevenueBug is a strong fit
RevenueBug is worth considering when you want:
- a public daily revenue history rather than only a static badge;
- support for one of RevenueBug’s six current providers;
- a startup directory and category pages that can make the listing discoverable;
- a social card and canonical listing URL for sharing;
- the option to hide product identity while keeping revenue public; or
- a lightweight way to receive private buyer inquiries.
When RevenueBug is not the complete solution
RevenueBug is not bookkeeping software, a subscription analytics warehouse, an audit firm, a valuation provider, or an M&A broker. It does not replace customer-level cohort analysis, financial statements, tax records, bank reconciliation, source-code review, contract review, or transaction documents.
It is also not the right fit when your provider is unsupported, when the available provider scope combines revenue you cannot responsibly attribute, or when all revenue information must remain private.
A practical evaluation checklist
Before choosing any public revenue-verification product, confirm:
- your provider and credential type are supported;
- the connected scope maps responsibly to the listing;
- refunds, disputes, fees, taxes, and currencies are defined;
- the displayed period is trailing, calendar-based, or subscription-normalized;
- the privacy model matches what you are willing to publish;
- you can revoke access and manage the listing later; and
- the public page supports the sharing or acquisition workflow you need.
If RevenueBug fits those requirements, you can publish a verified revenue listing directly.