TeardownHQ, teardowns/playbooks of how indie startups grew
Launching TeardownHQ: a directory of indie startups with revenue pulled from real signals (and labeled where it is an estimate), plus deep teardowns/playbooks of exactly how each one grew. The channels, the pricing, the GTM, all sourced, instead of the usual self-reported screenshots. Why I am building it: Starter Story proved people want "how they actually did it," but it skews ecommerce and general business, and because it is human-interviewed it is slow and broad. I am going narrow and current: indie SaaS, micro-SaaS, dev and AI tools, and no-code wins. The teardowns come out of a…
TeardownHQ, teardowns/playbooks of how indie startups grew launched on June 8, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
An intelligence dashboard for founders and analysts: estimated SaaS metrics, market signals, and deep, sourced teardowns of how companies were actually built.
Tracking 1,742 startups with estimated, sourced metrics: refreshed continuously. How Cometly Turned the iOS 14.5 Attribution Panic Into a $9M Gross Revenue Attribution Platform . Sourced and dated. Create a free account to unlock the whole thing, on us. No card required. Funding rounds, traffic spikes, pricing changes and churn signals, streamed from sync diffs. Lights up as the signal pipelinefrom teardownhq.io
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Launching TeardownHQ: a directory of indie startups with revenue pulled from real signals (and labeled where it is an estimate), plus deep teardowns/playbooks of exactly how each one grew. The channels, the pricing, the GTM, all sourced, instead of the usual self-reported screenshots. Why I am building it…
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