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TEARDOWNHQ · EARLY ACCESS
See exactly how they hit $1M ARR.
TeardownHQ is verified revenue data and deep-research playbooks for indie SaaS founders. We track how real bootstrapped and venture-backed startups actually grew, the channels, the pricing, the go-to-market, then turn each one into a teardown you can run yourself.
The directory is free at launch. The first 500 people on this list get a founding-member lifetime deal.
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THE PRODUCTDeep-research teardowns
How the founder found their first 100 customers, the one channel that actually moved revenue, and where pricing capped them.
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Starting with indie SaaS, micro-SaaS, and dev and AI tools. The kind of business you could actually build.
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ALREADY TORN DOWNS
Stan
A $30M+ ARR creator storefront built on a single $5M seed, and the pricing ceiling it ran into.
ARR · EST$32.4M
RAISED$5M
CREATORS80K
Full teardown28 min read
R
Resend
Developer-first go-to-market, from a public changelog to $250K MRR with no sales team.
MRR · EST$250K
SALES TEAM0
CHANNELDev-led
Full teardown19 min read
b
beehiiv
The newsletter-to-platform pivot, rebuilt on ad-network economics.
MODELAd-net
PIVOTPlatform
P&LRebuilt
Full teardown22 min read
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BEFORE YOU ASKIs the directory free?
Yes. Browsing startups, revenue bands, and growth is free. The full teardowns are the paid product.
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AI is used as an information aggregation and synthesis tool. Reports are compiled and verified by human analysts, and every claim is backed by a verified source.
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July 2026. List members hear first and get the founding deal.
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