A verified directory of businesses.
Built so founders can find peers building similar things, find providers for the work every business needs, and validate ideas against what already exists. Owners prove they run a domain by setting one DNS record — that's the trust layer. Discovery matches what you describe against what each business says about itself, not against what's trending or what someone paid to surface.
Headquartz is a Quartz. So is the team that builds it. The same page you'd land on for any other business is the page we use ourselves.
No bulk pre-seed. Every Quartz comes from a person who typed their domain. The directory grows from intent, not scraping at scale, and the messy edges that come with that are part of the point.
DNS TXT records prove who owns a domain. Once verified, the owner gets edit rights; the row turns from “auto-generated” to theirs. No manual review queue. No “blue check” politics.
Matches come from what each business actually describes about itself. Not engagement. Not recency. Not popularity. The closest answer to what you described is the closest answer.
- designPolish round — favicon, error pages, loading skeletonsBrowser tabs now show the brand mark. Slow connections get loading states instead of blank pages on /search and /idea. If something errors, the fallback page is branded instead of Next.js's default. Link previews on social platforms also got fixed for Quartzes without a scraped favicon — they'd been broken.
- tuneQuartzes for blocked sites no longer come up emptyWhen a site blocks our scraper, we fall back to the Internet Archive's most recent public snapshot. The resulting Quartz starts with real copy from the company instead of placeholder text.
- shipSub-paths now require domain verificationYou can still submit any apex domain (yours or someone else's) anonymously — that's how discovery works. But sub-paths like example.com/foo can only be added by the verified owner of example.com. If the apex isn't in the directory yet, the preview screen offers a one-click button to submit it first.
- designFriendlier 404 pageBad URLs and deleted Quartzes now land on a real "Not found" page with a search box, a link back to the directory, and a few recently-joined Quartzes — never a dead end.
- shipVerified owners can delete their own QuartzesA new danger zone at the bottom of every owner-mode page lets you remove your Quartz permanently. Org-with-portfolio cases list each affected product so you know what gets orphaned before you confirm.
- shipRemove an unwanted preview in one clickIf the scrape produced a page you didn't want — typo'd domain, page about you that shouldn't be indexed — a "Not mine — remove" button next to the verify CTA deletes it on the spot.
- shipPrivacy and Terms pagesWhat the directory collects, what it doesn't, and the rules for using it — laid out in plain English.
- shipMerendon Cloud's Quartz is one click awayThe "by Merendon Cloud" attribution in the topbar and footer now opens its directory page, not just the external site.
- shipAbout page + we're in our own directoryHeadquartz and Merendon Cloud now appear as Quartzes you can browse, just like everything else.
- shipFeedback button in the footerAnything that read wrong, behaved wrong, or should exist and doesn't — tell us in one click.
Anything that read wrong, behaved wrong, or should exist and doesn't — tell us. Lands directly in the team inbox. We read everything.