ScrapingBee with Pierre de Wulf
Slow & Steady
English - May 26, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Pierre de Wulf chats with Benedikt and Benedicte about ScrapingBee, PricingBot, growing with a small team, and leveraging communities.
Scrapingbee.comMicrosoft ClarityNathan Barry on compensation at ConvertKitTinySeedFollow Pierre on TwitterThe ScrapingBee BlogIt wasn't the best of times, but it wasn't the worst of times. Pierre, co-founder of ScrapingBee, was excited to come record and get some relief from debugging an infrastructure issue. Debugging can be challenging work but it comes with the territory of owning a SaaS — customers don't want to do this, so they will pay for it!
ScrapingBee is growing quite nicely thanks in part to a solid product with a good fit and a tightknit team. After first working on PricingBot, a price-monitoring service for e-commerce, Pierre and his co-founder pivoted as their runway was dwindling. They created a web scraping API very quickly with ScrapingBee, secured a spot in TinySeed during the pandemic, and passed the $1M ARR threshold with a fully remote team last year.
Pierre, Benedicte, and Benedikt discuss the impact of community involvement, support, acquisition, SEO, and more!