PushPress
👤 Dan Uyemura (Myspace front-end dev who opened his own CrossFit gym in 2010, hated the software, and built his own. His exact customer.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A Myspace dev opened a CrossFit gym, hated the software, and spent 5 years building the one gym owners now refer.
Will it work? · our read
Owner-built. Dan sold to people exactly like himself and out-supported rivals built for spas. Five slow years to $1M ARR, then a free tier plus payment fees pushed it past $10M.
01How the money moves
Gym runs billing, scheduling and check-ins on PushPress
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Members pay dues by card or ACH through the app
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PushPress takes a subscription plus a cut of every payment
02The numbers
$10M+ ARRStatedARR, above $10M (2024)
2024
PushPress's own site now cites 5,000+ businesses; 3,500 is the founder's 2024 podcast figure.
Free tier + $159-229/mo, plus a cut of every member payment.
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See a full teardown, free → Transistor.fmSourcesSources last checked 28 July 2026
SaaS Club: PushPress — 5 years to $1M, then vertical SaaS took off (ARR, story)PushPress pricing — free + $159-229/mo, 4.99%/2.75% payment ratesPushPress home — over 1M member check-ins, 5,000+ gymsMixergy (2020): Dan Uyemura on building PushPress from a gym
Revenue is STATED, not filed: on the SaaS Club podcast (ep. 414, 2024) Dan Uyemura put current ARR at 'below 20 million, but above 10' (low eight figures), so the card headlines '$10M+ ARR'. Gym count 3,500 is his figure on that episode; PushPress's own site now says 5,000+ businesses and 1M+ member check-ins. Pricing tiers ($159/$229) and the 4.99%/2.75% payment rates are from the live pricing page. A 2020 Mixergy interview corroborates the climb (he cited about $1.5M ARR then). PushPress has raised roughly $31.75M (through Series B), so it is funded, not bootstrapped. Rivals' bars are our read of reach, not revenue; Mindbody is Vista-owned, Zen Planner is Daxko-owned. First-party founder statement, not audited. We never score you.