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Scrapingdog

Bootstrapped data API · India
👤 Manthan Koolwal (Tried Google Ads first, then wrote the scraping tutorials himself and seeded them on Reddit and Product Hunt instead.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn

Scraping APIs are a commodity. Scrapingdog won on distribution, not tech: own the search results devs Google mid-code.

Will it work? · our read
Distribution wins. The product is a commodity anyone can clone. What compounds is a library of SEO content that captures developers at the moment they search for a scraper. Boring, and hard to copy.
01How the money moves
Dev needs web data; scraping means proxies, captchas, headless browsers
Scrapingdog rotates IPs and renders JS behind one GET request
Customer buys monthly credits; heavy users scale to $30K/mo plans
02The numbers
$2M ARRStatedself-reported (Dec 2025)
Dec 2025source: $ 2 Million ARR
$2M
ARR, self-stated (Dec 2025)
$50K
monthly revenue (Apr 2025)
$40/mo
cheapest paid plan; top plan $30,000/mo
Revenue self-reported on the company's own about-page milestone timeline; not audited.
From $10K MRR (Sep 2023) to a self-stated $2M ARR (Dec 2025), zero outside funding.
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SourcesSources last checked 21 July 2026
revenue.value ($2M ARR) is STATED: self-reported on Scrapingdog's own about-page milestone timeline, which reads '$ 2 Million ARR' for December 2025 ('we doubled our revenue from August', when it hit $1M ARR). Not audited. Confirmed in the raw HTML, not just a WebFetch summary. A 2021-era Starter Story interview listed about $22K/mo; the newer, larger figure is the company's own and current. Checked period/subject/currency: this is Scrapingdog's ARR (recurring subscriptions in USD), not sibling products Makcorps/FlightAPI. Bootstrapped: no VC funding disclosed. The $36K 2017 railway-API story on the about page is Darshan Khandelwal's (CTO co-founder) own first-person bio, not Manthan's, per direct fetch of scrapingdog.com/about/ (confirmed twice) plus a 2021 Starter Story interview naming yet a third figure ($50K, a colleague called Manish) for a similar tale, so it is not used to describe Manthan. Manthan's own founding detail (SEO over ads, per Starter Story) is used instead. verified:true on first-party disclosure. Founder's X/LinkedIn returned 402/blocked to our fetcher but map to Manthan Koolwal by name via search; the $1M ARR LinkedIn post is corroborating, not the headline source. We never score you.