MrScraper
👤 Cahyo Subroto (Ran SEO agency Penateam — he could both read the traffic signal and fund a fast, low-cost Asia dev team to fix the product.)🌐 sitepenateam.comLinkedIn
An indie hacker's scraper had traffic but no payers. He sold cheap; the buyer read the traffic as proof and pounced.
Will it work? · our read
Buy the demand. Traffic converts only if the problem was execution, not demand. Many 'cheap SaaS with traffic' buys stay dead — the users never intended to pay.
01How the money moves
SEO + free tier pull in signups
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Rebuilt UX + outbound to SaaS/marketers
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$49-$199/mo tokens + enterprise contracts
02The numbers
$150K+/moStatedfounder-stated, Feb 2025
2025-02-16
the sentence on the page
5-year-old kid, turn a webpage into an Excel sheet or summarize it for them. Right now, we bring in around $150k+ per month by helping companies automate their mundane tasks and get high-quality data…
Revenue founder-stated (Starter Story/Acquire) — grew from about $2.4K ARR to $1.7M in under a year. Purchase price disclosed only as 'five figures'.
Founder-stated "around $150k+ per month" to Starter Story in February 2025 — about $1.8M a year, from a business bought for a five-figure sum. The same page's header now shows $756K/mo; see the honesty note.
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Starter Story — I Bought a Data Scraping Business and Grew It to $1.7M/YearAndrew Gazdecki (Acquire.com) — 5-figures to $1.7M, $140K/monthStartupInsider — How buying a small site on Acquire.com grew into a $1.7M SaaSMrScraper — Pricing ($49-$199/mo, token-metered)TechBullion — Cahyo Subroto on building a low-cost global team
Revenue ($1.7M ARR / about $140K MRR, mid-2025) is founder-stated via Starter Story and publicly endorsed by Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki — not audited. The near-$0 start ($2.4K ARR at purchase) is founder-stated and consistent with Latka's tiny 2023 figure. Purchase price is disclosed only as 'five figures,' so the exact multiple is unknown. Later 2025 promo pieces claim it reached 'eight figures ARR' with 60+ staff; I treat that as unverified self-promotion and did not headline it. Rival prices are approximate. The 'buyable = SEO traffic as proof of demand' read is documented; the failure-mode framing is [our read]. Corrected 13 July 2026. Three things. The interview is dated February 2025, not mid-2025. In its body the founder says 'we bring in around $150k+ per month' — about $1.8M a year, which is what our $1.7M was approximating, so the figure stands but the date did not. And the stat block at the top of that same Starter Story page now reads '$756K revenue/mo' — roughly five times the founder's own words on the same page. We do not know which is right, and we are not going to pick the flattering one: the card carries the founder's quote, and this note carries the discrepancy. The old '$2.4K ARR at purchase' metric rested on a tweet that no longer loads for anyone, so it is gone. We never score you.