SerpsBot
Google SERP API for data miners and software companies
It's been a wild few months. We've had an additional 150 sign ups to the service and landed a few more big users. One client in particular has been using our service on a massive scale. In fact, at one point this month they were running 1000 requests per second for a good part of the day. To put that into perspective, Google receives around 70-100k searches a second, so this one client accounted for more than 1% of all Google searches for about half a day. We're still heavily exposed to 3 customers, so it would be good to win another handful of big enterprises.
We now have 350 users on SerpsBot and our monthly revenue has started to stabilise around $6.5k. It has been really hard to reduce our exposure to our two main big clients. They account for close to 80% of our monthly revenue. We have a great relationship with both but does make us a little uneasy thinking that we could lose nearly 40% of our revenue if they drop us for whatever reason.
May saw us breach the $10k monthly revenue mark, which is a big milestone for us. We are still heavily exposed to a few big users of our API, so the aim over the next 6 months is diversify our client base. We have a few good conversations with big data users, so hopefully we also land another big fish or two!
After lots of hustling we now have 100 users on SerpsBot and revenue in excess of $2500 a month. A huge source of traffic and sign-ups for us has been our Rapid API listing: https://rapidapi.com/serpsbot/api/google-search-5/. We have also seen good results from forums like Quora and Reddit.
After working through a number of beta tests and iterations, we've launched SerpsBot, a SERP API that we think is the fastest and most affordable API on the market. Our unique infrastructure means we can support billions of requests a month. We're bullish on this tool!
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Ah, bumped out for not finding out about SerpsBot earlier. We used a different service for Harvel, and yours seems to be more affordable!
Congrats and good luck tho! Nice MRR increase from the previous update 😂😂😂
Thanks! Yip, I don't think anyone can match us on price, especially at scale.
It's interesting that you can optimize having a large client as your pricing appears to be used-based!
I need to figure out a way how to achieve this as I'm thing of a single fixed pricing model for my upcoming product.
Congratulations on moving from 2 big customers to 3 🤝
How are you getting them, outbound sales or inbound marketing?
What revenue effort do you think will favor you in the short term, Sales Development or Marketing
Lately we have done very limited outbound marketing. We’re lucky to get good inbound from search and referral. Sales development will be our main focus going forward as we’re only focusing on large enterprises.
Congrats! Did it seem like their traffic was malicious at all?
100% legit company. They are doing data enrichment.
I am one of your customers and the tool is super useful, I don't need the big SEO tools on a daily basis, all I need is to monitor the keywords my website is ranking and you guys are great at it.
Awesome, glad we can be of service!
Congrats👏
Crazy!! Great job on it though, how was the bill for your servers?
I'm currently questioning myself on some tech decisions for these reasons
Thanks, we use an auto-scaling setup and the cost is very reasonable.
Inspiring ,
I assume you are simply scraping search results. Have you investigated the legality of your product (or read Google's ToS)?
80% of Google's revenue is via online advertising, primarily search results. I'd assume they wouldn't be thrilled about someone scraping results with an oblivious bot.
I ask because scraping is usually a legal gray area, and I'm working on a scraping project in an unrelated industry.
It's not something that we're concerned about. Basically all SEO software (Ahrefs, SemRush ect. ) as well as 1000s of other large software companies would be out of business if Google wanted to eradicate scraping. You could argue it's in their best interest to encourage scraping so people continue to optimise for Google search etc. Scraping LinkedIn or Amazon is a different story though...
insightful comment!
why do you say so?
In the case of LinkedIn, their entire business model is dependent on holding the public data of its users for its job and sales navigator tools. Amazon, would hate the bot traffic.
Awesome journey ! Congrats !
Did you have to scale your tech at any point ?
Yip, we've adapted and evolved our tech infrastructure to deal with the demand.
Awesome journey ! Congrats !
Did you have to scale your tech at any point ?
Congrats! That's a great achievement. Usage and revenue moving up in tandem!
Congratulations! Idk if it was intentional but having only a usage based pricing policy rather than a fixed price seems to work well for you! That's great for you if the customer is happy with it.
wow what a scale, do you guys use puppeteer for the scrapping engine? (could handle more than 1000 requests per second is just amazing )
Superb update;
Would love to know if there was anything, in particular, you guys did that resulted into such a good jump in the last few months?
I would love to say we executed a fancy marketing strategy. But the truth is we just have a great product and we’ve been very lucky to win a few big clients. The massive jump in revenue may drop again soon though as most of this is from one massive client.
What a great result. How are you managing that many requests per second infrastructure wise?
We have a massive proxy network across a distributed cluster. We're able to process billions of requests a month and have stress tested to 3000 requests per second without a hiccup!
you manage the proxy network? where do you host your proxys ?