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How Scrape Creators Grew

Real-time social media scraping API for developers

How did Scrape Creators grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Scrape Creators grew primarily through organic social media efforts, including personalized outreach on Twitter and posting content that engaged the scraping community. The company also leveraged SEO by creating programmatic SEO pages and blog content to attract customers via organic search. Additionally, paid advertising on platforms like Meta and TikTok was used to scale proven creatives while maintaining a favorable lifetime value to customer acquisition cost ratio.

Channels

14 channels · grouped by how Scrape Creators grows

  • Organic social media

    · 9 mentions · 9 sources
    “Adrian’s customer acquisition wasn’t built on complex funnels or paid ads. Instead, he relied on two main channels: Direct messages on X (Twitter) - personalised outreach to potential customers Google - organic search, boosted by some programmatic SEO pages and blog content. Because Adrian had be...”
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    “So just making improvements to the product, DM'ing people on twitter, etc. My Twitter was a huge asset, building up a brand for a couple years helped tremendously.”
    high
    “I had scraped their company’s website to build a tutorial, posted it on Twitter, their CTO replied to the tweet, and then asked about my APIs. Full circle. The scraping tutorial led to my first paying customer.”
    high
    “Most skip it entirely, missing massive reach opportunities on Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. where visual content dominates feeds. Build an AI-powered tool that transforms any blog post or written content into professional infographics. ... You can also add one-click publishing to major soci...”
    medium
    “I hang out on Twitter a lot. So people see me there. People have seen my content. My first customer was just because I scraped a company's site. And then the CTO actually commented on that post. So completely accident. And then also anytime someone has a launch video that has anything to do with ...”
    high
    “Adrian launched in June 2024, focused on a single product, and hit $10K MRR within 12 months thanks to organic outreach plus programmatic content.”
    medium
    “I have a little bit of a presence on Twitter so even if I just message people on Twitter I probably could get there even without SEO”
    high
    “🧵 I built a tool that gives you access to structured public data from every social media platform, including TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Google, and more … Here’s what it can do 👇”
    high
    “🧵 I built a tool that gives you access to structured public data from every social media platform, including TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Google, and more … Here’s what it can do 👇 https://x.com/adrian_horning_/status/1911900126529958135”
    high

  • SEO

    · 5 mentions · 5 sources
    “I built this because this is how I drive our SEO and AEO forward. It gives me the insights I need to allocate budget and prioritize what content to work on next.”
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    “I did do some pSEO pages. And starting to blog more.”
    high
    “Google - organic search, boosted by some programmatic SEO pages and blog content.”
    high
    “Angus focused on SEO content instead of paid ads, and the service surpassed $10K MRR in 2023, reaching about $12K per month by September while he worked on it less than two hours weekly.”
    medium
    “the fact that they were only getting their customers through SEO i thought this is the product for me i'm going to do this exact same thing”
    high

  • Direct sales

    · 1 mention
    “So we use this exact API for our influencer outreach strategies. So like our plan, how do we do this is basically like identify the influencers in a category that we want to work with. We take those and then hit that end point to basically pull out their email addresses. And then those emails go ...”
    high

  • Affiliate program

    · 1 mention
    “we're cold emailing them, basically asking for like a three video package costs plus an affiliate commission that we give them.”
    high

  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “Compounding local wins through referrals and integrations.”
    medium

  • Referral Program

    · 1 mention
    “Compounding local wins through referrals and integrations.”
    medium

  • Online Community

    · 1 mention
    “Engaging maker communities (Product Hunt, Indie Hackers) for feedback.”
    medium

  • Testimonials

    · 1 mention
    “Honestly, probably giving away a lot of leads lists. Then get some testimonials of people using it.”
    medium

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “By mid-2023 it was doing around $40K MRR after a Reddit post and freemium model encouraged sharing.”
    medium

  • I’m offering this for free

    · 1 mention
    “I feel like I'm learning that you need to provide a lot of free stuff if you're in the beginning stages. I gave, and still give a lot of 10k free credits out to people to try. Before that I would give free knowledge and free lists away to people. Gotta add a lot of value to people first.”
    high

  • Building in public

    · 1 mention
    “Nolan bootstrapped it while working full-time, iterating publicly, and shipping customer-driven features.”
    medium

  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “After a slow start as “Replyze,” Alex Belogubov partnered with a marketing co-founder, relaunched on Product Hunt, and rebranded for clarity.”
    medium

  • Content marketing

    · 1 mention
    “Josef shipped in two weeks using existing AI APIs, charged from day one, and grew to $10K MRR roughly 1.5 years later through content marketing, list building, and high-touch sales.”
    medium

  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “By mid-2023 it was doing around $40K MRR after a Reddit post and freemium model encouraged sharing. Key success factors. Letting word-of-mouth and community trust drive trial-to-paid conversions.”
    medium

How 3,049 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Scrape Creators’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    67% ◀
  • Social media
    63% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    35% ◀
  • Partnerships
    33% ◀
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19% ◀
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    11%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3% ◀
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