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The whole library — filter by size, sort by revenue. Every business we have taken apart.
182 teardowns · Under $1MEvery teardownFortressesEasy to copy. Won anyway.Built on rented landNumbers straight from a filingDoesn't scale. On purpose.Still here after 15 yearsOne-time money
StayFi
SaaS
Airbnb owns the guest. StayFi gives owners the data.
$83.3K/mo
Stated · MRR, about $1M/yr
Hosts can churn once they hold the emails.
★ The edge: Captures guest emails at the WiFi login — the exact data Airbnb and VRBO never let hosts keep.
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Content Snare
SaaS
Chasing clients for files, bottled and sold monthly.
$990K
Estimate · ARR (Latka estimate)
Feature-not-company: a suite could bundle it.
★ The edge: Turned their agency's worst chore, nagging clients for files, into one tool sold to every trade that does it.
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Indifferent Broccoli
SaaS
Private multiplayer servers for survival gamers.
$82,386/mo
Stated · founder-stated
Commodity; churns as each game's hype fades.
★ The edge: Bought a site already page-one for one game ($1,600/mo), then launched a host for every new title.
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Flexiple
Marketplace
Killed the platform, built free tools to get found.
$80K/mo gross
Stated · gross monthly billings
"Gross" billings hide the real take.
★ The edge: Only full-time self-employed devs, hand-matched in 7 days. No job posts, no proposal spam, no star ratings.
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Cults3D
Marketplace
Where 3D designers get paid, not just liked.
$940K net profit
Filed · '23 · 2023 filing, turnover N/A
Free maker-owned platforms own the audience.
★ The edge: Owns no printers, so it stays neutral, and pays designers 80% — pulling pros off makers' free platforms.
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Pallyy
SaaS
Self-taught solo dev out-SEO'd Hootsuite to $74K MRR
$74K MRR
Stated · founder-stated, 2023
Crowded commodity category; social API risk
★ The edge: Undercuts Hootsuite on price, wins Google with 'alternative' pages and free tools. Bootstrapped, no ads, no funding.
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GorillaDesk
SaaS
The pest-control CRM built by a pest tech.
$880K
Estimate · est · fully bootstrapped
Small niche; funded rivals can outspend it.
★ The edge: Priced per route, not per user, so cost tracks the customer's trucks — office staff stay free.
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Testimonial
SaaS
Collect testimonials, embed a Wall of Love.
$800K ARR
Stated · self-reported, 2023
Thin moat: cloned features, easy to switch.
★ The edge: Every free Wall of Love embed carries a 'Powered by Testimonial' link, so customer sites recruit the next customers.
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Pope Tech
SaaS
Bootstrapped shop rents the web's most-trusted scanner.
$770K
Estimate · est. annual revenue
Core WAVE engine is WebAIM's, not theirs.
★ The edge: Built the enterprise layer on WebAIM's court-referenced WAVE engine — rented credibility no ad budget can buy.
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Resellbot
SaaS
One dev owns the search result Poshmark resellers tap.
$756K/yr
Estimate · 2024 ARR (Latka est)
Automates platforms that ban automation.
★ The edge: Ranks #1 for 'Poshmark bot,' a buying-intent keyword rivals ignored, so customer acquisition is free organic search.
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Japan Dev
Marketplace
A dev job board that bills only when you hire.
$62,197/mo
Stated · July 2022, founder-stated
Welded to one country's dev-hiring niche.
★ The edge: Skips the $300-per-post model. Companies pay only when they hire, so listing a job costs them nothing upfront.
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Kleo
SaaS
AI LinkedIn writer sold to its founders' 585K fans.
$62K/mo
Stated · MRR, 3 mo post-relaunch
Commodity AI writer - moat is only the fans.
★ The edge: Its four founders hold 585K LinkedIn followers of the exact buyer. Audience first, product second.
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Accountable HQ
SaaS
HIPAA compliance built for SMBs, not hospitals.
$731.2K
Estimate · Revenue '24 · Latka est.
Low moat; funded giants moving down-market.
★ The edge: Enterprise vendors target hospitals; Accountable packaged the same HIPAA program cheap and self-serve for ignored SMBs.
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DialHawk
SaaS
An audience turned a me-too tool into a $725K exit.
$725K
Estimate · sold on Flippa · 2.6x rev
Crowded market; software isn't the moat.
★ The edge: 74% margins, 98% retention, near-absentee: support outsourced at $150/mo and zero paid ads.
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GrowthMentor
Marketplace
One flat fee, unlimited calls with vetted mentors.
$720K
Estimate · ARR, reported 2022
Control low
free supply can walk
free supply can walk
★ The edge: Most mentors work for free — so members get unlimited calls and GrowthMentor keeps the whole subscription.
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FeedbackPanda
SaaS
One-click lesson feedback for ESL teachers
$55K/mo
Stated · MRR at 2019 exit
All revenue rode on one platform, VIPKid.
★ The edge: Danielle was an ESL teacher herself: she felt the pain daily and had trust inside the teacher groups they sold into.
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MySignature
SaaS
Bought his rival at $25K MRR; it's now the bigger one.
$55K/mo
Stated · about $700K/yr, self-funded
One Google algo change can gut the traffic.
★ The edge: Owns top-5 Google rankings for 'email signature generator'; a free tool turns that evergreen traffic into $12/mo subs.
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SubmitHub
Marketplace
Musicians pay to guarantee a curator actually listens.
$55K/mo
Stated · self-reported MRR
Low approvals feel like pay-to-be-rejected.
★ The edge: A blogger drowning in 300 daily submissions charged the senders, turning spam into a paid marketplace.
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Punchpass
SaaS
The class-pass tool for studios Mindbody overwhelms.
$633.8K
Estimate · 2024 · Latka est.
Crowded market of low-LTV small studios.
★ The edge: He aimed at studios Mindbody overcharges: radical simplicity, a fair price, and a decade of calm profitable focus.
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Simple Analytics
SaaS
Google Analytics got banned in the EU. He sold the fix.
$603.8K
Stated · ARR, live dashboard
Low barrier: a dozen cookieless clones.
★ The edge: Turned EU rulings against Google Analytics into demand: cookieless, EU-hosted, fully transparent.
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Bannerbear
Dev
Solo founder, image API, $50K a month.
$50K MRR
Stated · MRR, solo bootstrapped
Easy to clone; the moat is distribution.
★ The edge: A boring API for a repetitive marketing task, repriced from $9 hobbyist tiers to $49-299 business plans.
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Closing Credits
Marketplace
Courses for the 600k voice-acting crowd he owned
$50K/mo
Stated · revenue - 2022 - founder
Scale Low 20% gross margin
★ The edge: Years running the free Casting Call Club gave him 600k voice actors to sell to before he wrote one course.
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Laravel Shift
Dev
Every forced Laravel upgrade, automated in one PR.
$50K+/mo
Stated · founder-stated, 2025
One framework's calendar sets the revenue.
★ The edge: Blessed by Laravel's creator, it's the default upgrader — with 175k+ upgrades of edge-case data no rival can match.
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PDF.ai
SaaS
Chat with your PDFs - a $20K buy now doing $50K/mo.
$50K+/mo
Stated · MRR, founder-stated
Thin AI wrapper - cloned in a weekend.
★ The edge: He didn't build it - he bought a working AI toy for $20K, then used the audience his other SaaS already had.
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StandOut CV
SaaS
A recruiter turned CV advice into the UK's #1 CV site.
£40K/mo
Stated · about $50K · MRR at exit, all via SEO
One channel: Google. AI now writes CVs free.
★ The edge: 10 years placing hires at Barclays and Deloitte made his CV advice ring true; 1,000+ SEO articles became the moat.
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Viral Loops
SaaS
The agency's referral tool that sold twice.
US$800K
Estimate · 2021 rev.; sold at US$2.3M
Referral is a feature suites bundle free.
★ The edge: Profitable at US$800K with 700+ customers and no one big enough to matter - a bolt-on that runs without its founder.
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TractorData
Ad
One guy catalogued every tractor. Ads do the rest.
$46,000/mo
Estimate · est. rev (BoringCashCow)
Depends entirely on Google and ad networks.
★ The edge: The complete, neutral spec sheet for every tractor ever made — the first result for almost every model search.
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Superpath
Community
A free Slack for content marketers, monetized 4 ways.
$550K/yr
Stated · gross '22, founder-stated
One niche, and AI is cutting content jobs.
★ The edge: Jimmy Daly launched to 4K newsletter and 6K Twitter fans he already had, so it opened with members, not from zero.
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AvtoPro
Marketplace
$105M of parts sold through it. They take no cut.
$540K/yr
Stated · founder-stated, mid-war 2022
Earns from ads, not the $105M it moves
★ The edge: A parts catalog matched to 5,000 stores' live stock, and a brand searched 5x more often than the words 'spare parts'.
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Pappers
Data
Free French company data. The paying 1% funds it all.
€0.49M
Filed · $0.53M · 2024 net profit (filed)
Moat is UX and SEO, not the data itself.
★ The edge: Made paywalled French company data free with far better UX; the 1% who buy the API and exports fund the free 99%.
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CookieYes
SaaS
The cookie banner the law made you add.
$523K
Estimate · est. ARR 2024 (Latka)
warn entry Low
banner is a commodity
banner is a commodity
★ The edge: A free WordPress plugin with 1M+ installs funnels sites into the paid consent platform.
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Bank Statement Converter
SaaS
PDF bank statements in, clean spreadsheets out.
$42K/mo
Stated · Aug 2025, founder-posted
⚠ Entry low
a script anyone can copy
a script anyone can copy
★ The edge: Anyone can build a PDF parser. He ranked #1 for 'convert HSBC statement to Excel' — where accountants search.
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Cyberleads
Data
Leads on startups that just raised, for agencies.
$500K+/yr
Estimate · ARR, founder-disclosed
Copyable data, thin moat, high churn.
★ The edge: Built entirely in public: every MRR-milestone tweet was free marketing, so his audience compounded with the revenue.
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Soundslice
SaaS
Sheet music you can click, loop and slow down.
$500K+
Stated · course-creator earnings
$5 consumer pricing caps a small niche.
★ The edge: Django co-creator who also plays guitar — rare enough to build notation rivals can't, patient enough to wait 13 yrs.
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FoodDocs
SaaS
Build the HACCP plan the law demands — in an hour.
$40K/mo
Stated · 2022 · founder-stated
⚠ Entry: low barrier
crowded HACCP field
crowded HACCP field
★ The edge: Two food-safety consultants turned 30 years of HACCP paperwork into self-serve software.
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PDFLiner
SaaS
Ranks every US tax form, then charges to fill it.
$40K/mo
Stated · MRR, founder-stated (2022)
Google ranks the forms; one update sinks it.
★ The edge: Every IRS, legal and real-estate form is its own SEO page, so 'fill form X online' searches land on a paywalled filler.
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Storemapper
SaaS
A boring store-locator, built to be bought.
$40K MRR
Stated · at 2017 sale (founder)
Commodity widget; platforms can bundle it.
★ The edge: Sticky embed with near-zero churn, grown on organic search and a 'powered by' backlink loop. Zero ad spend.
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Hiface
SaaS
A face-shape app with 96% margins and zero ad spend.
$455,754/yr
Estimate · Annual rev at sale (Flippa)
A one-shot utility; users rarely come back.
★ The edge: 100% organic traffic means zero CAC and 96% margins — the whole business runs on App Store rankings, not ad budgets.
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GummySearch
Data
Mined Reddit's complaints, sold them to founders
$35K/mo
Estimate · MRR at 2025 shutdown
Control low
lived and died on Reddit's API
lived and died on Reddit's API
★ The edge: One search box over 10,000+ subreddits — founders validate ideas in minutes, not weeks of scrolling.
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Post Bridge
SaaS
Schedule one post to every platform, no bloat.
$35K MRR
Stated · about $420K ARR, stated
Thin layer over social APIs he can't own.
★ The edge: He hand-posted to five platforms daily to grow his own app — then sold the automation of that exact chore.
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Restworld
Marketplace
He waited tables. Now he staffs Italy's kitchens.
$35K/mo
Stated · MRR, self-reported
Hiring demand swings with the season.
★ The edge: Vertical hiring built only for restaurants — matching and onboarding, not a generic job board chains ignore.
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Lunch Money
SaaS
Power-user budgeting, at a price you choose.
$34K MRR
Estimate · about $410K/yr, solo, 2024
Solo founder is the whole company.
★ The edge: Ex-Twitter engineer built for people exactly like her, in public — budgeting nerds trust one of their own.
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Typeshare
SaaS
Sold two-thirds of his app to get an audience.
$34K MRR
Stated · MRR, founder-stated 2025
Flat MRR; depends on Ship 30 for 30.
★ The edge: His co-owners were the exact influencers whose thousands of students needed a place to publish.
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Buttondown
SaaS
No-bloat newsletters. Flat price, 0% author cut.
$392K/yr
Estimate · 2024 (Latka); +61% in 2025
Flat price caps upside; low switching costs.
★ The edge: Beat rotting incumbents by doing less: nail deliverability, let writers own their list, take 0% of revenue.
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MySlabs
Marketplace
The 2% fee that moved $80M and still lost money
$389K
Filed · FY2023 revenue (SEC)
Thin 2% fee; still unprofitable
★ The edge: Sellers pay 2%, not the 13% eBay takes or the 20%+ auctions charge. The low fee is the whole pitch.
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Design Match
Marketplace
Matched startups to designers. Zero ad spend to $32K/mo.
$32K MRR
Stated · MRR - self-reported
Founder-led; MRR once went negative.
★ The edge: A nomad product designer whose work reached 300M+ users, with the network and taste to match founders to designers.
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MetaFilter
Community
The forum Google built, then nearly killed.
$31.5K/mo
Stated · income vs $30.5K/mo expenses
Built on Google traffic it didn't control.
★ The edge: Ads died overnight when Google's Panda update cut traffic 40%; 15 years of member goodwill funded the site instead.
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Mylance
Community
Ex-Uber consultant sold his playbook to the next wave
$374K
Stated · 2022 gross revenue
Near breakeven; his hours are the product
★ The edge: Free community is the funnel; revenue is a lead-gen tool plus an accelerator he coaches himself.
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eRecht24
SaaS
German law makes every website buy legal texts.
370,000+
Stated · websites secured (Premium)
Germany-only: law and SEO don't cross borders.
★ The edge: A lawyer owns Germany's SEO for the exact legal texts every website is legally forced to publish.
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DotMarket
Marketplace
France's marketplace for buying and selling websites.
$360K/yr
Stated · founder-stated (2022)
Thin French deal pool caps liquidity.
★ The edge: Cloned a proven US marketplace for France, a market Empire Flippers won't localize - owning French deal flow and trust.
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TypingMind
SaaS
The power-user UI ChatGPT forgot to build.
$30K/mo
Stated · avg/mo, founder-stated
A wrapper OpenAI could absorb overnight.
★ The edge: Wrapped ChatGPT's clunky default with the search, folders and bring-your-own-key its power users asked for.
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Angel Match
Data
The investor database that programmatic SEO sold
$26,182/mo
Stated · MRR - Stripe-verified
⚠ Control low
lists copyable
lists copyable
★ The edge: Programmatic SEO turns a 125K-row investor list into thousands of pages that sell fundraising access.
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750 Words
Community
A 17-year-old journaling site, 5,800 members, $26K/mo.
$26K/mo
Stated · monthly, founder-stated
One founder, one flat niche; growth is hard.
★ The edge: Habit lock-in: daily streaks, badges and monthly writing challenges keep members returning for years.
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Codeable
Marketplace
No-bidding WordPress marketplace, vetted pros
300K+
Stated · projects shipped
Supply capped by slow peer-vetting
★ The edge: Removed bidding entirely — experts don't undercut, clients pay one averaged fair price, both sides stay happy.
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Judoscale
Dev
Autoscaling sold inside Heroku's own app store.
$300,000 ARR
Stated · founder-stated, 2021
Heroku's decline hit the main channel.
★ The edge: The Heroku add-on marketplace shipped him customers for five years while he kept his day job.
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Liinks
SaaS
A $4 link page quietly clearing $25K a month.
$25K/mo
Stated · MRR, Oct 2024 (founder)
Linktree could kill the $4 tier for free.
★ The edge: One designer-engineer runs the whole app on about $50/mo of infra, so a $4/mo price still clears 80-90% margins.
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Swapstack
Marketplace
The marketplace matching newsletters with brands.
$25K/mo
Stated · monthly rev at 2023 sale
⚠ Entry low
platforms can build it native
platforms can build it native
★ The edge: Writers keep 100%; brands pay the 10% fee — the side with budget barely notices the markup.
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DataFast
SaaS
Ties every signup back to the tweet that sold it.
$24.6K MRR
Estimate · Stripe-verified, live
Attribution breaks when cookies are blocked.
★ The edge: Google Analytics counts pageviews; DataFast ties each visitor to the exact dollar and channel that closed it.
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MentorCruise
Marketplace
Monthly 1:1 mentorship from people who've done it.
$24K/mo
Stated · commissions · 2023
Entry: free rivals
★ The edge: SEO owns the demand. Mentees arrive from Google, so MentorCruise — not the mentor — sets the take.
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Data Fetcher
SaaS
The API importer Airtable never shipped, done solo.
$23K/mo
Stated · MRR · up 4x from $6K
Its whole market lives inside Airtable.
★ The edge: Airtable can't pull live API data itself. Data Fetcher is the no-code fix, sitting right in Airtable's app store.
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Swimply
Marketplace
Airbnb for backyard pools — rent one by the hour.
275,000+
Stated · reservations in 2026
Repeat locals can rebook off-platform.
★ The edge: Owns the only liquidity in a category it invented, so it charges a rich 30% take (20% host + 10% guest).
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SuperX
SaaS
He sold Tweet Hunter for $8M. A partner rebuilt this one.
$22,094 MRR
Estimate · Stripe-verified MRR
One platform (X) owns their whole demand.
★ The edge: Tibo's Tweet Hunter/Taplio playbook and audience, paired with Rob Hallam's rebuild, took SuperX to $23K+ MRR.
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Visa List
Data
Free visa data. $22K/mo. One guy in Sydney.
$22K/mo
Stated · founder-stated, 2022
A Google update can halve everything.
★ The edge: He never sells the visa info - it's free bait that ranks on Google. The money is the traveler's next purchase.
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Feather
SaaS
Bootstrapped solo, sold for $250K — it ran itself.
$250K exit
Stated · sold to Tibo, June 2024
Built on Notion's API and Google's SEO.
★ The edge: Solo-built, profitable from launch, running unattended — the rare asset a buyer can take over with no cleanup.
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Really Good Emails
Community
$250K revenue. Sold for up to $6.6M — for the audience.
$250K/yr
Estimate · 2023 revenue (Growens)
Ad-funded; $250K on 100M pageviews is thin.
★ The edge: Ten years curating the best emails made RGE the default inspiration site for the people who buy email tools.
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Flusk
Dev
Security audits for Bubble apps — bought by Bubble.
$240K
Stated · ARR · 2024 exit
⚠ Control low
100% on one platform
100% on one platform
★ The edge: a self-serve product — you can't acquire a service, you can acquire a product.
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Stagetimer
SaaS
The browser countdown timer behind SpaceX shows.
$20K/mo
Stated · MRR, 2,000 customers
A countdown timer is trivial to clone.
★ The edge: One-time event licenses, not just monthly plans — matching a trade that needs a timer for one show, then never again.
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FeedHive
SaaS
Turned a tweet scheduler into an AI content studio
$227.7K ARR
Estimate · est. ARR, Latka '24
Commodity category; AI writing is now free.
★ The edge: AI scores a post's likely reach before you publish and auto-recycles your best ones, in a clean solo-built workspace.
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PA Crunch
SaaS
Passive Instagram growth SaaS. Sold for $300K.
$18K MRR
Stated · at 2018 exit · 50% margin
Zero control; it all ran on Instagram.
★ The edge: Delegated to a 4-person team so it ran in about 3 hours a month — profitable, hands-off, and clean enough to sell fast.
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SEOTesting
SaaS
SEO A/B testing, powered by Google's own data.
$18K/mo
Stated · MRR, founder-stated 2023
Lives and dies by Google's Search Console
★ The edge: Built by an SEO for SEOs: turns Google Search Console's raw data into repeatable, client-ready A/B tests.
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Youform
SaaS
A $29 Typeform rival that turns free forms into ads.
$18K/mo
Stated · about $216K ARR, Mar '26
Forms are commoditized; zero switching cost.
★ The edge: The cheapest Typeform rival; every free form carries a 'Powered by Youform' badge that recruits the next user.
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Pinboard
SaaS
Paid bookmarking, one guy, no VC — profit is the pitch.
$212K/yr
Stated · gross 2020, founder-said
Tiny shrinking market, one-man bus factor.
★ The edge: Charging from day one keeps it solo and profitable, so 'we won't sell you out or vanish' is a promise he can keep.
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Podsqueeze
SaaS
He podcasted 280 episodes, then sold the tool.
$16k MRR
Stated · MRR, founder on air 2024
Priced under rivals in a fast-copied market.
★ The edge: Built for his own show, sold to his own listeners: a 280-episode build-in-public archive was the launch list.
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Unicorn Platform
SaaS
The simple site builder that sold for $800K.
$16K/mo
Stated · MRR at sale (2022)
Low entry barrier - rivals everywhere.
★ The edge: Profitable and self-serve: $16K MRR from about 1,000 subscribers with no sales team - a clean asset a buyer could run.
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Uplink
Marketplace
IT-freelancer network with a fair, time-limited fee.
$16K/mo
Stated · founder-stated 2019
⚠ Scale-limited
one region · fee ends at 6mo
one region · fee ends at 6mo
★ The edge: Recruiters take a permanent cut. Uplink's fee ends after six months — a loyal freelancer then pays nothing.
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Coolify
Dev
Open-source Heroku you run on your own server.
$15.7K/mo
Stated · gross, self-reported
Just 5 people handle code, support, security.
★ The edge: Owns the self-hosting crowd's trust — open-source, no VC, no lock-in — the anti-Vercel a VC clone can't copy.
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BlogToPin
SaaS
Auto-pins your blog to Pinterest for free traffic
$15K MRR
Stated · founder-stated (IH)
10-15% monthly churn — a leaky bucket
★ The edge: Connect a blog once and AI writes and pins forever — rivals like Tailwind still make you build each pin by hand.
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Black Magic
SaaS
Turned down $500K. API bill forced a $128K sale.
$168K ARR
Estimate · at sale · 90% margin
One dependency: Twitter's API.
★ The edge: Real-time X analytics plus a CRM rivals lacked, sold straight to the 100K+ audience the founder built in public.
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MENTA
Marketplace
Monthly mentors, not one-off gigs — built solo in Japan
$13K MRR
Stated · Founder-stated, Jan 2020
Cloneable software; the moat is his audience
★ The edge: Sold the ongoing relationship, not one-off gigs: mentors charge monthly for unlimited questions, so revenue recurs.
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Remotive
Community
Remote jobs board grown from a niche newsletter.
$156K
Estimate · annual revenue, 2023
Modest revenue, fragile SEO traffic.
★ The edge: Ran ops at Buffer, the remote-work poster child, so the newsletter had reach before COVID made remote normal.
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FreeAgent
SaaS
UK freelancers' books, now free inside their bank app.
150,000+
Estimate · businesses on FreeAgent
Its growth now leans on one bank.
★ The edge: Owned by NatWest, which hands it free to every business-banking customer — a channel rivals cannot buy.
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iubenda
SaaS
Every website's privacy policy, auto-updated forever.
150,000
Stated · clients worldwide
Control Mid low end cloneable
★ The edge: Laws keep changing - iubenda's lawyers auto-update every policy, so churn stays near zero.
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Net Net Hunter
Data
The world's cheapest stocks, hand-picked for members.
$144K
Stated · /yr · 90% margin · solo
⚠ Scale capped
one man, one SEO funnel
one man, one SEO funnel
★ The edge: The raw data was free in filings — he does the tedious global hand-filtering nobody else will.
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52Frames
Community
A free weekly photo challenge, monetized after a decade.
$11K/mo
Stated · founder-stated, May 2023
⚠ Bus factor of 1
solo, weekly, forever
solo, weekly, forever
★ The edge: Rivals hand you a prompt or a crowd. 52Frames fuses a weekly ritual with a 13K-member feedback loop.
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Nomad List
Community
Find the best city to live & work as a nomad — by data.
$11K/mo
Stated · founder-stated MRR
⚠ Need·Time soft
niche + travel churn
niche + travel churn
★ The edge: the moat isn't the data — it's 11 yrs of user-filled data + community + his public brand (@levelsio), all solo.
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Inbox Zero
SaaS
Open-source AI for email. The license is the paywall.
$10K+ MRR
Stated · founder-stated MRR, Oct 2025
Google can ship this free inside Gmail.
★ The edge: Open source solves the trust problem for an app that reads every email, and GitHub trending brought the users.
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Tool Finder
Ad
Where 450k fans pick their productivity tools.
>$10K/mo
Stated · Founder-stated, 2026
Affiliate traffic hinges on Google and AI.
★ The edge: Fourteen years of hands-on reviews and a 450k-sub audience make each pick trusted before a vendor pays.
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Planning Center
SaaS
Church software that made itself impossible to sell.
90,000+
Stated · churches
Bounded to churches; low ARPU by design.
★ The edge: Two church staffers fixed their Sunday-service chaos in 2006, then compounded 20 years of trust with no VC and no exit.
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Buildpad
SaaS
Two failed founders built the AI cofounder they wanted.
$7,300/mo
Stated · MRR, 7 mo in (May 2025)
100k free founders, about $7K MRR.
★ The edge: The AI keeps your project in memory across sessions and guides you through phases: research, validate, build, launch.
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Potion
SaaS
Sold for $300K on $6,300 MRR and 2 hrs a week.
$6,300 MRR
Estimate · MRR at $300K exit (2023)
A thin layer on Notion's own API.
★ The edge: Built in public on Twitter for two months before launch, so the audience giving feedback became the first 75 customers.
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BitsForDigits
Marketplace
Sell part of your SaaS — cash out, keep control.
$72K/yr
Stated · self-reported · pre-exit
⚠ Control thin
buyer pool owned by rivals
buyer pool owned by rivals
★ The edge: they turned a rich-founder move — Basecamp selling a stake to Bezos — into a self-serve marketplace.
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Remote Rocketship
Marketplace
Free Google traffic, sold back to job seekers.
$6k/mo
Stated · MRR · self-reported
⚠ Retention low
seekers cancel once hired
seekers cancel once hired
★ The edge: Everyone bills employers to post jobs. He scraped 60k firms' listings free and charged the job seeker instead.
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Truck Parking Club
Marketplace
Reservable truck parking on other people's lots.
66,000+
Stated · bookable parking spaces
Trucker Path now sells paid reservations too.
★ The edge: Asset-light: no land bought, no lots built. He lists owners' idle acreage and takes 30% of every booking.
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Cliniko
SaaS
Bootstrapped clinic software, built with an osteopath.
65,000+
Stated · practitioners
Crowded category full of funded rivals.
★ The edge: Built with an osteopath, not by a generalist — 14 bootstrapped years turned clinical depth into trust rivals can't buy.
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Bandzoogle
SaaS
The site builder that takes 0% of what artists sell.
60,000+
Stated · artist sites and stores
Bounded, slow-growth music niche
★ The edge: A music-only website builder that takes 0% of what artists sell - you keep 100%, it lives on your flat monthly fee.
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Bear Blog
SaaS
Blogging stripped to words. No JS, no trackers.
$60K/yr
Estimate · est. ARR · solo founder
Free tier is a spam magnet; $5/mo caps ARPU.
★ The edge: Wins by subtraction: no JavaScript, no trackers, sub-second loads. The free tier is the marketing.
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Dropmagic
SaaS
AI turns any product into a Shopify store in 2 minutes
$58K
Stated · MRR, TrustMRR verified
Dropshipping AI hype; churn likely high
★ The edge: Minea grew on creators he didn't control; Dropmagic owns its own distribution from day one - his stated #1 edge.
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DudeRanch.com
Marketplace
Bought DudeRanch.com; the domain does the marketing.
$50.5K
Stated · /yr TTM · solo · sold '25
⚠ Scale capped
one niche, about $50K/yr
one niche, about $50K/yr
★ The edge: He didn't build demand — he bought the door to it: about 50 free type-in visits a day, costs near zero.
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Focus NFe
Dev
Brazil forces e-invoices by law. He's the API.
50,000+
Stated · client companies
Gov owns the standard + a free emitter.
★ The edge: Brazil's 5,570 cities each run a different e-invoice system. Focus integrated 3,000+ into one API.
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OwnerRez
SaaS
Run your rentals, own your bookings. Flat fee.
50,000+
Stated · active properties
Steep setup — power users only, not newbies.
★ The edge: Direct API links to Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com let it charge a flat monthly fee, never a percent of your revenue.
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Userfeed
SaaS
Customer feedback, native to Intercom.
$50K ARR
Stated · at exit; sold 6-figures
All distribution rents Intercom's platform.
★ The edge: Lived in the Intercom App Store, so Intercom's own users were its ready-made distribution channel.
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Crypto Jobs List
Marketplace
The job board that rode the 2017 crypto gold rush.
$4K/mo
Stated · Apr 2018, founder-stated
Entry low a job board clones in a weekend
★ The edge: First real web3 job board. Hand-seeded supply, then sold $199 job posts to startups desperate for devs.
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Work With Indies
Marketplace
The indie-games job board built by a 20-year insider.
$3.9K/mo
Stated · Founder-stated; reinvested
Tiny revenue; games hiring runs in cycles.
★ The edge: Twenty years inside games (Amazon, PlayStation) gave Nathan the network and taste to serve a niche big boards ignore.
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My AskAI
SaaS
AI support agent that plugs into Intercom or Zendesk
$40K
Stated · MRR · about $500K ARR
⚠ Entry low
crowded; incumbents bundle it
crowded; incumbents bundle it
★ The edge: Built on OpenAI's embeddings soon after launch, shipped in three weeks; 2 people run 75k chats/mo at 82% margin.
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Typebot
SaaS
Open-source no-code chatbot builder, run solo.
$36.5K
Stated · MRR, Q3 2024 (founder)
Crowded category; free self-host caps price
★ The edge: Open-sourced a paid SaaS. 10k GitHub stars became free distribution; self-hosters evangelize, businesses buy cloud.
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FilterGrade
Marketplace
Where photographers buy and sell presets.
$30K
Stated · /mo · self-reported
SEO-reliant; a Google drop hit traffic hard.
★ The edge: Not the presets — the buyer audience they built first on a blog and YouTube, letting them take a 50% cut.
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Frontend Mentor
Community
Where junior devs practice on real design files.
$30K
Stated · MRR · founder-stated
⚠ Time leaky · about 13% monthly churn
★ The edge: Tutorials give you code, never the Figma. He shipped real design files so practice became portfolio pieces.
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ScreenshotOne
Dev
One dev sells the screenshot infra devs hate running
$25K
Stated · MRR · founder-stated · 2026
⚠ Entry low
clones undercut 2-4x
clones undercut 2-4x
★ The edge: One dev turns infrastructure nobody wants to maintain into about $25K/mo by refusing to compete on price.
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Uncat
SaaS
Gets clients to explain their mystery transactions.
25k+
Stated · accountants & bookkeepers
A feature QuickBooks could bundle away.
★ The edge: Owns one hated chore — uncategorized transactions — not another do-it-all practice suite.
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Cloakist
SaaS
Wrapped Notion pages. Sold for $60k in one month.
$2k MRR
Stated · at $60k exit · 2.5x ARR
Rides on platforms that could ship this free.
★ The edge: One job, recurring revenue, no founder brand to replace. A buyer could run it day one, which is why it sold fast.
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Merrative
Marketplace
A book-lovers' community that hires out its writers.
$2K/mo
Stated · revenue, self-reported 2022
Thin revenue; hard to scale past a niche.
★ The edge: Built the community first, then sold access to its writers. The owned 5,000-member audience is what brands can't copy.
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TaxJar
SaaS
E-commerce sales tax a court made mandatory.
23,000+
Stated · businesses at acquisition
Platform risk: Stripe absorbed the category.
★ The edge: Built pre-Wayfair. When the 2018 ruling made sales-tax collection mandatory, TaxJar was already the incumbent.
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RecordJoy
SaaS
A 'poor man's Loom,' flipped for about 1.7x.
$20K
Stated · sold on Acquire.com '22
No moat vs Loom and free recorders.
★ The edge: Sold within a month for $20K, about 1.7x the $12K buy split with a cousin — proof a clean micro-SaaS is liquid.
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SavvyCal
SaaS
Scheduling built for the guest, not the host.
$20K+
Stated · MRR, founder-stated
Low entry barrier — Calendly can copy it.
★ The edge: Recipient-first scheduling: guests overlay their own calendar on your slots and see mutual free time in one view.
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sellerboard
SaaS
The net profit Amazon hides - for $19 a month.
20K+
Stated · Amazon sellers
100% dependent on Amazon's API and fees
★ The edge: The accurate net-profit number Amazon hides, priced at $19 so every small seller says yes.
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JobBoardSearch
Data
One index for every niche job board on the web.
$1.5K MRR
Stated · Stripe-verified, solo
Copyable product; thin, broke paying niche.
★ The edge: An ugly directory shipped in 5 hours to ride the Stack Overflow Jobs shutdown — then compounded into an owned audience.
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Jackrabbit Technologies
SaaS
17,000 activity centers. Zero VC. 20 years.
17,000+ centers
Stated · clients; rev. never public
The niche is finite; TAM caps growth.
★ The edge: Twenty years building per-sport workflow — gym, dance, swim, cheer — that funded rivals never match in depth.
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Stocksmith (ex-Craftybase)
SaaS
Inventory + true-cost bookkeeping for makers
10,000+
Stated · product businesses
⚠ Scale capped
niche TAM · revenue hidden
niche TAM · revenue hidden
★ The edge: Generic books stop at 'spent $200 on supplies.' Craftybase costs every gram — true per-item cost.
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FastBound
SaaS
By law, every gun dealer logs every gun. We're the log.
10,000+
Stated · FFLs since 2010
US-only FFL ceiling; ATF/politics can shift.
★ The edge: The only e-bound-book bundled with an attorney-backed legal defense — it sells the ATF-audit fear, not features.
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Financial Cents
SaaS
Practice software for accountants. $0 VC, 70+ staff.
10,000+
Stated · accountants and CPAs
No public ARR; crowded, VC-heavy niche.
★ The edge: Bootstrapped past richly funded rivals by staying simple and winning accountants on SEO content, not paid ads.
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CattleMax
SaaS
Ranchers' herd records, bootstrapped since 1999.
8,000+
Stated · farms and ranches
Small herds, small budgets — low ceiling.
★ The edge: A niche too small and unglamorous for big SaaS to bother with, held by 25 years of ranch-specific depth and referrals.
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JobTread
SaaS
Built to run his own contracting firm. Now 7,500 use it.
7,500+
Stated · contractor customers
Crowded category; no VC to outspend rivals.
★ The edge: He ran an $8M contracting firm on JobTread first. Builders buy from one of their own, not another software vendor.
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Transistor.fm
SaaS
Podcast hosting for indies — grown as a calm company.
7,500 paying
Stated · $0 VC · team about 6
⚠ Scale capped
calm by choice
calm by choice
★ The edge: deliberately turns away big clients to keep focus — and builds in public, so the content itself became the marketing.
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Jetpack Workflow
SaaS
Deadline software for accounting firms.
6,000+
Stated · accountants and bookkeepers
Entry low
clones everywhere
clones everywhere
★ The edge: Owns the audience: a 250+ episode podcast feeds signups, so a boring niche needs no ad budget.
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CleanCloud
SaaS
The POS running 5,000+ laundromats worldwide.
5,000+
Stated · laundromats & dry cleaners
Fixed TAM: only so many dry cleaners exist.
★ The edge: Went deep on a paper-run, unsexy niche nobody courted, then embedded card payments a processor paid $2M for 20%.
Open →
shopVOX
SaaS
The back office for custom sign and print shops
3,000+
Stated · customers worldwide
Thin niche, low ARPU, glacial word-of-mouth
★ The edge: Every sign shop already ran QuickBooks, so shopVOX sat on top as the quote-to-cash layer, never replacing the books.
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Boostlingo
SaaS
Interpreters on tap: 275 languages, 5-second answer.
1,800% 3-yr growth
Stated · Inc 5000 #312; rev private
AI voice could undercut per-minute rates.
★ The edge: It sells the software agencies use to run interpreters, plus a 10K-strong on-demand network billed per minute.
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SuperOps
SaaS
1,300 MSPs pay for a stack they helped design.
1,300 paying MSPs
Stated · ARR private; 104 countries
Legacy incumbents own the big MSP accounts.
★ The edge: One AI-native PSA+RMM, not a bolted-together legacy suite, priced on an India cost base for small MSPs giants ignore.
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FincenFetch
SaaS
The filing rails for whatever FinCEN mandates next.
1,000+
Stated · firms
Its whole market is one rule's political whim.
★ The edge: Built FinCEN filing rails before the law landed; 1,000+ CPA and law firms white-label it instead of DIY.
Open →
Greenlight Guru
SaaS
You can't ship a medical device without a QMS.
1,000+
Stated · medical device companies
Narrow market: only medical-device makers.
★ The edge: Built only for medtech: FDA/ISO workflows ship pre-wired, so startups pass audits without a $200/hr consultant.
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Breww
SaaS
The brewery software that actually does your beer duty.
800+
Stated · breweries
Finite, plateauing craft-beer market.
★ The edge: US brewery tools skip UK and EU alcohol duty; Breww automates it, so Commonwealth breweries have no real rival.
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LabStar
SaaS
Cloud back-office for the labs that make your crown.
600
Stated · dental labs worldwide
Tiny, shrinking market limits the upside.
★ The edge: Noles had run a dental lab AND led eBay Asia, then built the cloud tool his old lab needed, co-designed with six labs.
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Open Dental
SaaS
Practice software a dentist built to undercut Dentrix
300+
Stated · employees
Just closed its 20-year open-source promise
★ The edge: Free GPL code for 20 years won trust and about 20,000 practices; painful data conversion now keeps them from leaving.
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CIMcloud
SaaS
Bootstrapped B2B stores synced to legacy ERPs
119%
Stated · 3-yr revenue growth
Every deploy is an ERP integration project.
★ The edge: Shopify treats B2B as an add-on. CIMcloud was ERP-first: real-time price, stock and order sync for distributors.
Open →
Podscan
SaaS
Google Alerts, but for podcast audio.
$6-10K MRR
Stated · founder-disclosed, 2025
Transcription cost about equals revenue.
★ The edge: Transcribes 4M+ podcasts in full; rivals only index RSS titles, so spoken brand mentions stayed invisible.
Open →
Storecove
Dev
One API for compliant e-invoices in 30+ countries
31
Stated · countries, API compliance
Peppol access is commoditizing fast
★ The edge: Bet on Peppol in 2014, years before mandates. Now ERPs that must comply plug into one API instead of building it.
Open →
The CE Shop
SaaS
The law makes them renew. He sold them the renewal.
$29-64M
Estimate · rev. band, 2020 (DBJ)
One vertical, tied to US license law.
★ The edge: State law forces every agent to renew, so the CE bill repeats every 1-2 years on its own.
Open →
Collectr
Data
Your card collection, priced like a stock portfolio
8-fig ARR
Stated · founder-stated to BetaKit
Rides card-market hype; data is third-party.
★ The edge: Fintech founders reframed a shoebox of cards as a live-priced portfolio, seeded on forums they already lived on.
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Voices.com
Marketplace
Hire a pro voice actor in a day — Voices takes 20%.
8-figure/yr
Stated · membership + 20% fee
⚠ Need at risk — AI TTS undercuts human talent
★ The edge: Charge the side with the money: bill clients only when they hire, via escrow — that flip unlocked liquidity.
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Hypefury
SaaS
Thread scheduling for X, born from one tweet.
7-figure revenue
Stated · founder-stated · not ARR
Depends entirely on X's API and pricing.
★ The edge: Focused only on X threads while Buffer/Hootsuite stayed generic. Bootstrapped, no VC, grown via build-in-public.
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Paperbell
SaaS
Run a coaching business from one $57/mo app.
Low 7-figure ARR
Stated · founder-stated, 2026
⚠ Entry low
crowded coaching-CRM niche
crowded coaching-CRM niche
★ The edge: Rival took $10M from a16z, built native apps, and folded. Laura won solo by pouring it all into SEO.
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Parseur
SaaS
Turns emails and PDFs into structured data, no code.
7-figure ARR
Stated · 1k customers, +60%/yr
Thin moat — any LLM can extract from one PDF.
★ The edge: Kept it simple and self-serve while UiPath and ABBYY spent hundreds of millions on enterprise AI.
Open →
SignWell
SaaS
One bootstrapper's $10 answer to DocuSign.
7-figure ARR
Stated · first-party (2024)
Commodity feature; weak switching costs.
★ The edge: Skipped sales teams and enterprise bloat; won overcharged SMBs with a real free tier, $10 plans, and relentless SEO.
Open →
TeamGantt
SaaS
Beat project-management giants by owning one keyword.
7-figure ARR
Stated · founder-stated on air
Gantt is a feature rivals can bundle free.
★ The edge: Ranks #1 for 'gantt chart' for over a decade, so intent-rich buyers arrive from free organic search at near-zero cost.
Open →
Complianz
SaaS
GDPR forced a banner. He already owned the audience.
$5-27M
Estimate · team.blue sale, est.
Commodity banner; lives inside WordPress
★ The edge: Rode a top-10 WordPress plugin's millions of installs to win commodity GDPR consent on distribution, not features.
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Seobility
SaaS
Gave away SEO checks, sold the funnel for millions.
$2.5-5M ARR
Estimate · est. ARR at sale (TGA)
Its whole market rents attention from Google.
★ The edge: The exit wasn't the win. A lean, profitable tool with a 400k-user free funnel is what a serial buyer pays for.
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Action1
SaaS
Full-featured patching, free to 200 endpoints.
7,265% 3-yr growth
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Patching is a feature giants give away free.
★ The edge: The founders built Netwrix into a multi-billion-dollar security company first. Same IT buyer, second time around.
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AdButler
SaaS
The neutral ad server publishers own, not Google.
148% 3-yr growth
Estimate · revenue never disclosed
Google gives an ad server away free
★ The edge: The pitch isn't 'cheaper than Google's free server.' It's that Google, the biggest ad buyer and seller, isn't neutral.
Open →
AstroBin
Community
Astrophotography's default gallery + gear database.
10,000+
Stated · active members daily
Tiny niche; storage costs climb as it grows.
★ The edge: Members' photos double as a gear database - the reference imagers check before spending thousands on a scope.
Open →
Bushel
SaaS
Half of North America's grain runs on Bushel.
50%+ of US/Canada grain
Stated · revenue never disclosed
One commodity, one continent, big-ag backers.
★ The edge: Built for the grain elevators everyone found too boring. Farmers use it free; the facilities pay to reach them.
Open →
Business Infusions
SaaS
The tool one horse hospital built, sold to its rivals
400+ vet practices
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Tiny, finite equine-vet market
★ The edge: Born as one horse hospital's own software, it fit equine work the small-animal vet giants never built for.
Open →
Buzzsprout
SaaS
The friendly way to host and grow a podcast.
115,000+ podcasters
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Copyable product; Spotify hosts free.
★ The edge: No technical moat in podcast hosting, so it won the beginner on simplicity, human support, and a free tier.
Open →
Collabstr
Marketplace
Book a creator like you book an Airbnb.
8 figures
Estimate · reported revenue, $0 raised
Repeat deals can leak off-platform.
★ The edge: Programmatic SEO — a page per niche + city — funnels buyer intent into a marketplace already stocked with creators.
Open →
Commusoft
SaaS
Bootstrapped 20 years selling to plumbers and HVAC firms.
10,000+ pros
Stated · revenue never disclosed
One country's rules; slow, quote-only sales.
★ The edge: Generic job apps skip UK trade compliance — gas certs, service contracts, planned maintenance. Built for it.
Open →
CompanyCam
SaaS
A roofer built the photo app trades now live in.
170,000+ contractors
Stated · paying pros
Low tech barrier; one vertical ceiling.
★ The edge: Every crew already shoots job photos. CompanyCam made them timestamped, GPS-tagged proof, synced to everyone.
Open →
DealCheck
SaaS
The spreadsheet-killer for property investors.
350,000+
Stated · users
Entry low
easy to clone
easy to clone
★ The edge: Founder is a 40-unit investor who built his own tool — trust no VC-funded rival can fake.
Open →
Dubsado
SaaS
Photographer + dev spouse. 30k paying creatives.
30,000+ customers
Estimate · paying
Complex; casual users bounce off setup.
★ The edge: The founder was the customer: a working photographer whose dev husband coded the deep workflows power users craved.
Open →
Equalize Digital
SaaS
The anti-overlay accessibility checker for WordPress.
10,000+
Stated · active WordPress installs
WordPress-only; plugin still trails services.
★ The edge: She runs the WordPress Accessibility Meetup and Accessibility Day conference — she owns the audience she sells to.
Open →
Fibery
SaaS
An operating system for orgs run by nerds
+85% MRR in 2025
Stated · growth
Horizontal tool, same buyer as Notion
★ The edge: Dubakov sold Targetprocess to Apptio, so Fibery could spend three years building an engine before charging.
Open →
Foundry VTT
Marketplace
The virtual tabletop you buy once, not rent.
100K
Stated · Discord community members
Owners buy once - little recurring revenue.
★ The edge: Buy-once $50 license in a subscription world; users self-host, so Foundry's server costs stay near zero.
Open →
HeadshotPro
SaaS
One SEO play turned selfies into 250K paying customers.
250,000+ customers
Stated · revenue never disclosed
AI headshots are now a crowded price race.
★ The edge: A prior 7-figure AI exit gave him the audience, cash and SEO playbook to ship HeadshotPro in about a month.
Open →
Kagi
SaaS
The search engine its own users paid to build.
50,000+ members
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Few people will ever pay for search.
★ The edge: You pay, so Kagi serves you, not advertisers — an incentive Google can't copy without wrecking its ad revenue.
Open →
KnowledgeOwl
SaaS
Two support staff bought the tool they built at work
1,333 customers
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Revenue never published; scale unclear.
★ The edge: Support pros built the tool for themselves, then bought it. Every feature request comes from a job they used to do.
Open →
LeadDelta
SaaS
The LinkedIn CRM that won Product Hunt twice.
40,000+ users
Stated · revenue never disclosed
One platform's rules decide if it works.
★ The edge: Sells to people who live on LinkedIn but refuse to spam it — organize the network you earned, not blast strangers.
Open →
Ludus
SaaS
Free ticketing for theaters. The fan pays the fee.
5,000+ orgs
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Growth tied to add-on fees fans could resent.
★ The edge: Ticketmaster and Eventbrite chase arenas and festivals. Ludus took the schools and small theaters they skip.
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Match Play Events
SaaS
The default software for pinball tournaments
25,000
Stated · registered users
Tiny hobby market caps the revenue ceiling.
★ The edge: Owns pinball's tournament data and feeds results into IFPA's global rankings, so every serious event runs on it.
Open →
Niche Academy
SaaS
Ready-made training the library never had time to build.
1,700+ orgs
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Thin public-library budgets limit growth.
★ The edge: The founder grew up inside library software — his father co-founded Dynix — so content and trust came built-in.
Open →
OpenSanctions
Data
Banks must screen. He open-sourced the whole list.
650+ clients
Stated · revenue never disclosed
The data is open, so nobody is locked in.
★ The edge: The sanctions lists are free government files. Turning 410+ of them into one clean, current feed is the product.
Open →
OpenSnow
SaaS
Skiers pay for the one forecast they trust.
$0
Stated · outside capital raised
Free AI weather may erase the edge.
★ The edge: Free weather is everywhere; they sell trust: a decade of accurate powder calls from named meteorologists.
Open →
Pool Brain
SaaS
Pool software built by a guy who ran 20 trucks.
$440K
Estimate · ARR (est) · $0 raised
Thin, seasonal, US-only pool TAM
★ The edge: Built the tool to fix his own 20-truck pool company first, then sold that hard-won depth to peers.
Open →
PriceLabs
SaaS
Hosts priced flat. They sold them airline pricing.
600,000+ listings/day
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Leans on Airbnb and VRBO staying open.
★ The edge: Every host set one flat nightly rate. PriceLabs aimed airline-grade demand pricing at short-term rentals.
Open →
ProShop ERP
SaaS
They ran the machine shop first. The ERP came second.
7 yrs
Estimate · revenue never disclosed
Every rollout needs hands-on implementation.
★ The edge: Fifteen years running their own machine shop, so the software already knew how a shop actually works.
Open →
ProSpend
SaaS
Bootstrapped expense tool to 1,000 customers, no VC.
1,000 customers
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Small ACVs; crowded, low-moat spend market.
★ The edge: Built one of Australia's first expense tools, then widened from expenses to full spend management as clients grew.
Open →
Qualio
SaaS
No QMS, no FDA clearance. So life-sci firms all buy one.
700+ customers
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Startups churn; big pharma stays on Veeva.
★ The edge: The FDA and ISO 13485 mandate a documented, audited QMS. Qualio is the system of record every audit runs on.
Open →
RightTool
SaaS
The power-user layer QuickBooks never built.
40,000 users
Estimate · revenue never disclosed
Wholly dependent on Intuit's goodwill.
★ The edge: Hector Garcia's 337k-sub QuickBooks YouTube channel supplies the buyers; the audience predates the product.
Open →
Rock Gym Pro
SaaS
Gave it away on a forum. Became the standard.
200+ facilities
Stated · revenue never disclosed
The whole market is a few thousand gyms.
★ The edge: Climbing-only workflow — day passes, waivers, liability — that generic studio software never bothered to build.
Open →
Showit
SaaS
The website builder photographers actually evangelize.
50,000 customers
Stated · customers
Crowded space; giants beat it on price.
★ The edge: Photoshop-like design freedom Squarespace and Wix don't offer; a designer template market does the selling.
Open →
Stackby
SaaS
A spreadsheet whose columns pull live data from APIs
75,000 companies
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Horizontal tool, so no niche protects it.
★ The edge: Its columns call third-party APIs and refresh on their own. Rivals make you build that integration yourself.
Open →
Stock Alarm
SaaS
An app that phones you when your stock hits your price
$500,000 exit
Estimate · revenue never disclosed
A feature big brokers can ship for free.
★ The edge: It calls your phone. Push alerts get ignored; a ringing phone does not, so traders pay $4.99-19.99/mo for it.
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Time To Pet
SaaS
Built for pet sitters. First customer became cofounder.
4,500+ businesses
Stated · customers
Small TAM; Rover owns the pet parent.
★ The edge: Bootstrapped 8 years in a niche too small for VCs. Won 4,500+ pet-care firms, sold to DaySmart in 2024.
Open →
Wisesheets
Data
Institutional-grade stock data for $5 a month.
70,000+
Stated · users
Rents its data from upstream APIs.
★ The edge: Sells the data inside Excel and Sheets, so investors never leave the workflow they already model in.
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Yodeck
SaaS
Free Raspberry Pi player, $8 a month per screen.
350,000+ screens
Stated · revenue never disclosed
Never published a revenue figure.
★ The edge: Ships a free player it never touches: Raspberry Pi units drop-shipped straight from regional suppliers.
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