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Rock Gym Pro
👤 Andy Laakmann (Owned the Enclosure climbing gym in Jackson Hole and had 20 years writing software. He was his own first customer.)🌐 site
He wrote it to stop his own front desk selling year-long memberships by mistake. It ended up running the industry.
Will it work? · our read
Owned the niche. About 90% share of a market with only a few thousand gyms. He won everything there was to win, then sold to a rollup. That was the rational ending, not a failure.
01How the money moves
Gym owner fights software built for yoga studios
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Installs RGP free; it runs the front desk
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Pays $180-385/mo per facility for support
02The numbers
200+ facilitiesStatedrevenue never disclosed
2026-07
Both totals are cumulative since 2008, not annual, and neither is revenue. rgp about
Published price is $180-385/mo per gym. At 200+ gyms that is roughly $0.4-0.9M/yr [our read] — and a floor, since "200+" is marketing copy, not a count.
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You have the verdict. Members get the work behind it.
- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
We rate our own confidence — and argue against ourselves. Nobody else in this category does.
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Rock Gym Pro — About: first-party live page — 200+ facilities, $2+ Billion processed, 100+ Million check-ins (read 2026-07).Rock Gym Pro — Pricing: cloud $180 / $275 / $385 per month per facility; self-hosted $215 / $330 / $450.Climbing Business Journal (2013): origin, the free GPL release on the RockClimbing.com forum, 40 gyms in 6 countries, 335 businesses, his own 90% estimate.Climbing Business Journal (2020): Togetherwork had owned RGP for about two years; Laakmann, Bloxham and Knudsen depart.CBJ branded content (2019): RGP's own claim of over 90% of climbing facilities and 100,000 check-ins a day.
Rock Gym Pro has never published revenue, and since Togetherwork bought it in about 2018 no standalone figure exists — any Togetherwork number is the parent group, not this product, so we do not use one. The headline is the company's own live customer count. Two cautions: "200+ facilities" (2026) is marketing copy and a floor, while CBJ reported 335 businesses in 2013 — public pages cannot tell us whether the base actually shrank, so we do not claim it did [our read]. The 90% tile is RGP's own branded content in CBJ, not an audit, and the founder's 2013 estimate was his own guess. The $0.4-0.9M/yr range is our arithmetic on published price times published gym count, not a company figure. A founder AMA on r/climbing exists but returns 403 to us, so we cite only the CBJ interview that quotes his forum post. We could not confirm any personal link for Laakmann, so none is listed. We never score you.