Teardowns

How money-making products actually make money — the problem, the price, the customers, and whether you could build it. About one a day, each one sourced.

How boat.dev Makes Money

boat sells shovels to the AI agent gold rush — raw cloud computers, billed by the second, to developers running coding agents — and it got there by surviving five pivots and selling the infrastructure it built for itself.

boat · $1M ARR · 2026-11-13

How Dapta Makes Money

Dapta sells an always-on sales rep to the businesses AI forgot — Spanish-speaking SMB owners — and finds them through the founder's own content, not ads.

Dapta · $4M+ run rate · 2026-11-10

New teardowns appear here as they're published. Each one links back to the product's page on MilestoneWins.