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How we turned two failures into a $2,500 MRR success
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Pierre de Wulf
November 20, 2019
How we turned two failures into a $2,500 MRR success - Indie Hackers
Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thank YOU for reading ! Hope you liked it :)
Thanks for the interview. ScrapingBee looks great and well launched. Thanks for https://www.chargebee.com as well.
As I'm also running an API service through a marketplace (RapidAPI), deployed on Heroku. However, they take %20 from each customer and have a lot of problems. I was thinking to build my own server on VPS.
I assume you are using API Gateway for rate limiting, etc. Do you guys use AWS's API Gateway? and how is it working for you?
Thanks
Hi Onar and thanks for the nice words.
We used to go through API lambda but we would not use API gateway. Rate limiting is done on our end.
We launched on RapidAPI with mixed results, how is it working for you?
Not good :)
As you can see I am very frustrated with them :) I'm not sure at this point it is smart to build my own infrastructure since my revenue isn't much and I'm in an early stage.
Hi Pierre, I am Belal Amin, and I beleive that I have a great product that will be of a great interest for you, and its free. it will help you manage your development team and get you funded. please contact me at belalmostafa30@gmail.com or reply to this comment so that I can show you a demo for the project
Great interview and awesome project. I really liked the content marketing phases in the interview. It is going to be really useful for me at some time in the future... :)
Thank you ! Glad you liked it!
What are you doing to prevent abuse?
Can't really talk about it publicly ;) But we keep our eyes wide open for it!
Man, as someone close to 'launching' our first product, this has been really helpful. We're practically going to follow your launch list.
Question: When you wrote your ultimate scraping guide, how did you promote it, and where did you post it?
Hi, thank you very much, I hope it will help you.
We simply sent it to all our subscriber, cross posted it on dev.to and reddit.com.
wow great interview, thx for sharing !
Thank you very much!
This seems fine for the casual hobbyist or someone looking for low volume data for a small homework project perhaps, but the pricing is totally out of touch with the market for anything of scale.
And yet we have many enterprise client. I never though that competing on the price was a good strategy. We offer top-notch customer support and expertise related to scraping needs, so I don't mind being a bit more expensive, but more importantly, our clients don't mind either.
Well - you're pulling in $2.5k MRR, half of which is from two customers. Maybe our idea of "scale" just differs significantly.
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Hey, thank you very much for the kind words.
I did not know the reason behind Mechanical Turk in the first place, very nice trivia.
Indeed I think there is a big market to transform data into information in the e-commerce industry. But we also thought that those kinds of service were only profitable if you had a very big client with big money and your story seems to tell the same thing :).
About the acquisition, the reason is quite simple. The interview was finished by me almost 3 weeks ago, it was published last week and promoted in the email list only yesterday. PricingBot acquisition was only finalized two days ago. Hence why I could not talk about it in the interview. But I'll write about it soon.
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Thank you!