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Can't believe it: after 3 years, I got my first customer on $500/month plan

Want to share these few thoughts that came to me over the last couple of days:

  • I started with a pay-as-you-go model and stuck with it for many months. It attracts a certain type of customer, though - customers who don’t need high volume, want to save money, or only use my product occasionally.

  • Although subscription plans also have churn, they still provide more predictability. I can now upgrade servers or invest more in marketing.

  • I will do everything I can to keep my subscribed customers with WebcrawlerAPI.

  • And of course: consistency. I just don’t understand how “12 products in 12 months” could work. I work on the same project day after day - improving quality, user experience, adding features, and fixing bugs. The product slowly takes shape, but what can really be built in such a short period of time?

  • To be honest, I can believe it. I put too much effort into this for it not to happen sooner or later. http://WebcrawlerAPI.com is good enough. I have the numbers to prove it, and I’m using it myself every day with my agents. So yeah, this is something I believe customers could use.

on June 22, 2026
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    Happy to see the hard work is finally paying off! Crawling/scraping is one of the hottest topics rn, so I'm sure you'll soon grow even stronger!

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