01 / REVENUE
Revenue, with the label on it
The MRR or ARR figure for 112 companies, each tagged with what kind of number it is and where it came from. Ranges and "doing well" stay out of the database.
SaaS research database / 150 companies
Stop guessing what makes SaaS work.
See how 150 real software businesses found their customers, reached revenue, priced their products, and built distribution. Every company has a growth playbook, a revenue figure with its source label, and the channel that actually brought the first users.
Why this exists
Building got cheap. Picking got harder.
Anyone can ship a product in a weekend now. Choosing the market, finding the first hundred customers, setting a price, and owning a channel still take most founders years to learn, usually by losing one.
SaaSafras is the study of the companies that made it through. What they sold, who paid, what they charged, which channel carried them, and how long it took. Use it before you commit to a build, or after you shipped and nobody came.
What you get
Six things you get on every company.
02 / CHANNEL
The first channel
How each company reached its first 1,000 users: the channel, the specific tactic, the year it happened.
03 / PRICING
Pricing structure
What they charge, how the tiers are cut, and which pricing moves came after the product found its footing.
04 / PLAYBOOK
Growth playbook
One acquisition breakdown per company, written from the founder's seat so you can run the same play.
05 / PATTERN
The one-line pattern
One sentence per company that names the move that worked. Read 150 of them in an hour.
06 / STAGE
Growth stage and moat
Where each company sits today (build, launch, operate, scale) and what makes it hard to kill.
Research reports
Playbooks by channel.
Nine reports, each built from the companies that share a channel. Read the SEO report and you see how 49 companies rank before they have a product. Read the audience-first report and you see who sold on day one and what they built first.
Why trust it
Every number has a source, a label, and a date.
Each revenue figure carries one of four labels: founder reported, publicly reported, estimated, or SaaSafras classification. When two sources disagree, both stay in the record with their type and date; nothing gets averaged.
141 of 150 rows carry a revenue figure and 112 of those are a dollar amount. Companies that shut down or got acquired keep their exit noted, so the survivors don't tell the whole story alone.
The full rules, the counts, and the known limits are on one page.
Read the methodology
Database
Find the companies that look like yours.
Filter by category, launch year, revenue range, growth stage, or AI-native. Sort by revenue. Open any card for the playbook.
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Pricing
One database. Two ways in.
Free
$0
Every company card, the search, and three full playbooks.
- All 150 company cards
- Search and every filter
- Three full playbooks: Plausible, FormulaBot, Carrd
- The methodology
Pro
$15/mo
Or $99/year.
- All 150 companies
- Revenue + channel data
- All 9 reports
- Source links
- Advanced filters + exports
- Every company added from here on
Founding member: $69/year, first 100.
Before the next commit
Study the 150 before you build the 151st.
Their channels, their prices, their numbers, the year each move happened. Six months of research, ready before your next commit.
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