USE CASE:
SaaS companies and the stack detection problem
The job on this page is stack detection for SaaS companies, with the options first, ours included, and the recommendation at the end. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Company Tech Stack Detection is the one that does this for SaaS companies.
Where this starts
SaaS companies complicate stack detection, for a reason specific to them. SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers, and stack detection inherits that. On SaaS companies, stack detection rarely catches this: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. Company Tech Stack Detection carries 1 ready made setup for stack detection on SaaS companies.
The method
- Start with one of SaaS companies you already know, so a wrong stack detection answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Company Tech Stack Detection across your list of SaaS companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for stack detection.
- Read ten rows of stack detection on SaaS companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- BuiltWith. The reference dataset with history and reverse lookup by technology. Priced accordingly, and still the first place most people go.
- Wappalyzer. Free as an extension, cheap as an API, shallower than BuiltWith on history. Fine for a live check on a single account.
- Their integrations page. Companies list what they connect to. It is self reported, public, and frequently more accurate than any detector.
- View source and check the DNS. Script tags, DNS records, the login subdomain. A minute per company for someone who knows what to look for, and the signatures are public.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.