ScrapingBee
👤 Kevin Sahin & Pierre de Wulf (High-school-friend French devs; two failed scraping tools taught them the pain and let them out-teach every rival.)🌐 site𝕏 Pierre𝕏 Kevin
A headless-browser and proxy API that scaled to $5M ARR and an 8-figure exit almost entirely on free SEO content.
Will it work? · our read
The SEO moat. But the API is a commodity a dozen near-identical rivals sell; and AI answers now erode the very search traffic that built the entire business.
01How the money moves
Dev hits a scraping problem, Googles it
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Lands on ScrapingBee's free guide
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Signs up, pays monthly for the API
02The numbers
$5M ARR
at 2025 exit
TinySeed
99%
revenue via SEO
founders
6
person team
Oxylabs PR
All three confirmed by TinySeed and the Oxylabs acquisition press. TinySeed exit note
$5M ARR at exit, 99% from SEO
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TinySeed — $5M ARR, 2,500+ customers, 8-figure all-cash exit (2025)ScrapingBee blog — official acquisition announcementScrapingBee — first-party revenue milestones and the SEO strategyThe Bootstrapped Founder — Pierre de Wulf interview, team and content engineStartups For the Rest of Us #783 — $5M ARR and the exit
Revenue ($5M ARR), 2,500+ customers and the 8-figure all-cash exit are first-party, confirmed by TinySeed's portfolio note, ScrapingBee's own blog and the Oxylabs acquisition press (June 2025). The exit is confirmed eight-figure but the exact price was not disclosed. "99% of revenue from SEO" is founder-stated. The commodity/undercut death thesis and the AI-search-erosion risk are our read [inference], not founder claims. We never score you.