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
→
Rebuilt UX + outbound to SaaS/marketers
→
$49-$199/mo tokens + enterprise contracts
02The numbers
$2.4K
ARR at purchase
founder
$1.7M
ARR by mid-2025
Starter Story
5-figure
acquisition price
Acquire.com
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'.
5-figure buy → $1.7M ARR in under a year.
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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]. We never score you.