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Indifferent Broccoli

人気の急上昇で当社のゲーミングビジネスはどう変わったか【更新】
月商 $82,386 · 創業者1人 · 従業員1人 · New York, NY, USA
Jake Gaba（Founder, Indifferent Broccoli）· 創業 February 2021 · 記事掲載 — · indifferentbroccoli.com · 元の記事

同じ会社のほかの記事: スタンフォード大学を休学し、小さなWebサイトを買収、6ヶ月で収益を3倍に / Palworldのサーバーを提供し、ARRを3日で50万ドル（約7,500万円）から100万ドル（約1.5億円）に成長させた

何の商売か
誰がPalworldやMinecraftなど人気ゲームを仲間とプレイしたいゲーマー。自分でサーバーを立てるのは難しく、快適なプレイ環境を求めている個人・少人数グループ向け
何のために友人やコミュニティメンバーと遅延なく、MOD（改造プログラム）も使える安定したサーバーでゲームを快適にプレイしたい
何を買うか主要なゲームのサーバーホスティングサービスを月額5.99ドル（約900円）から利用する。2日間の無料トライアルあり。MinecraftやHytaleなど一部のゲームは月額9.99ドル（約1,500円）から。

2021年2月創業。Palworldの急激な人気で月商が一時3倍になったが、その後落ち着き以前の約2倍の月商82,386ドル（約1,230万円）で推移（時期は不明だが記事執筆時点に近いと推測）。創業者が一人で運営し、従業員はもう一人。今後、オープンソースのゲームホスティングツールを公開し、コミュニティ貢献と新規顧客獲得を狙っている。

売値の出典: 公式サイトの料金ページ（1ドル150円で換算）（2026-10-14 取得）

Tell us about what you’ve been up to! Has the business been growing?

My last update for Indifferent Broccoli in January was about dealing with the "Palpocalypse." The survival, crafting game Palworld became a hit, and Indifferent Broccoli's revenue tripled from new customers looking for Palworld server hosting. Since then, much of my focus has been the opposite: dealing with the crash after the surge. My business tripled in during the Palworld craze, but has since fallen to about 2x what it was pre-Palworld. Game server hosting is not a traditional SaaS business that can automatically scale infinitely. I have "inventory," which are the bare metal machines I use to host customers' game servers. During the surge, I had to acquire a mix of short and long-term leases on machines. Short provided flexibility, but long provided less expensive terms. Deciding on that mix was part of the challenge during the surge. During the crash, actually spinning down the short-term machines brought another set of challenges, from writing the automation scripts to handling the communications. Fortunately, very few customers were upset by the downtime needed to migrate them. They understood the Palpocalypse was a rare event. But going into it, I was concerned I'd have a revolt. Now that things are stable again, my next project is to pursue something I've had in the back of my head for awhile. We are going to create open source game hosting tools. It will be our way of 1) giving back to the community 2) helping people play these community games, even if they can't afford to pay monthly 3) building Indifferent Broccoli's reputation among gamers. My ultimate hope is that people who use our free, open source tools will purchase our hosting if they decide they want a paid service in the future. P.S. A few days before this story went live, Satisfactory launched a major update. This has been similar to the Palworld surge, and has grown my Satisfactory server hosting offering significantly.