ScrapingBee

Kevin Sahin and Pierre de Wulf launched ScrapingBee in France in 2019 as a web scraping infrastructure API. The premise was simple: every company building a web scraper spends 80% of their time fighting anti-bot systems — rotating IPs, solving CAPTCHAs, rendering JavaScript — instead of processing the data they actually need. ScrapingBee abstracted all of that complexity into a single API call. The product spread through developer communities and technical content marketing — Kevin and Pierre published detailed blog posts about web scraping techniques, targeting developers searching for solutions to specific scraping problems. Each article funneled readers to ScrapingBee as the solution. Revenue grew from zero to multiple thousands of dollars per month within their first year, then to $50k+/month. The company was acquired by Zytelab in 2022. ScrapingBee's growth through technical SEO content became a case study in developer-focused content marketing: write for the exact problem your customer is searching how to solve, and convert readers with your product.