See how 140 real software businesses found their customers, reached revenue, priced their products, and built distribution. Every company has a growth playbook, a revenue figure labeled by provenance, and the channel that actually brought the first users.
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.
A revenue figure for 112 companies, each labeled by provenance and metric type. 15 so far trace directly to the statement that made them; the rest are being reverified field by field. Ranges and "doing well" stay out of the database.
How each company reached its first 1,000 users: the channel, the specific tactic, the year it happened.
What they charge, how the tiers are cut, and which pricing moves came after the product found its footing.
One acquisition breakdown per company, written from the founder's seat so you can run the same play.
One sentence per company that names the move that worked. Read 140 of them in an hour.
Where each company sits today (build, launch, operate, scale) and what makes it hard to kill.
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.
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.
Companies that shut down or got acquired keep their exit noted, so the survivors don't tell the whole story alone.
Filter by category, launch year, revenue range, or growth stage. Sort by revenue. Open any card for the playbook.
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Every company card, the search, and three full playbooks.
Or $99/year.
Their channels, their prices, their numbers, the year each move happened. Six months of research, ready before your next commit.
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