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Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Apr 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Pierre De Wulf is the co-founder of ScrapingBee a web scraping API that grew to $1M ARR in 2 years. Before starting ScrapingBee, Pierre and his co-founder Kevin had quit their jobs to follow the indie dream. 9 months later, their product PricingBot couldn’t generate the traction they were hoping for so they sold the business and pivoted to ScrapingBee.What we covered in this episode:
Pierre's background; inspiration from his father
Running a business within World of Warcraft
Meeting his co-founder, Kevin
Starting a project for his girlfriend
Leaving his job to work on something for 9 months
Knowing when to stop and move on
Starting and selling PricingBot
How to sell a failed company
Using SEO as a marketing channel
How to write SEO content effectively
Starting ScrapingBee
How ScrapingBee grew so quickly
Taking TinySeed funding
Recommendations
Book: Hello Startup
Podcast: My First Million
Indie Hacker: Matt Wensing
Follow Pierre
Twitter
Personal site
Follow Me? Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays.
Twitter
Indie Bites Twitter
Personal Website
Buy A Wallet
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.
Pierre's background; inspiration from his father
Running a business within World of Warcraft
Meeting his co-founder, Kevin
Starting a project for his girlfriend
Leaving his job to work on something for 9 months
Knowing when to stop and move on
Starting and selling PricingBot
How to sell a failed company
Using SEO as a marketing channel
How to write SEO content effectively
Starting ScrapingBee
How ScrapingBee grew so quickly
Taking TinySeed funding
Recommendations
Book: Hello Startup
Podcast: My First Million
Indie Hacker: Matt Wensing
Follow Pierre
Personal site
Follow Me? Listen to my new podcast, No More Mondays.
Indie Bites Twitter
Personal Website
Buy A Wallet
2 Hour Podcast Course
PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
Sponsor - AhrefsThank you to Ahrefs for sponsoring Indie Bites. Ahrefs is the most complete and valuable SEO tool on the market. Bootstrapped companies such as VEED and Transistor have used Ahrefs extensively to understand how to craft their SEO strategies, which have been such a pivotal part of their growth.If you want to get more traffic from Google on your side-project, I’d recommend first trying out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free. You’ll see what keywords your pages are ranking for, understand how Google sees your content and discover what changes you need to improve your search ranking. You should also check out their YouTube channel to understand both the basics of SEO and some more advanced techniques.To try out Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, head to ahrefs.com/awt.
Released:
Apr 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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