Kevin Sahin
@SahinKevin
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Developer turned SaaS founder. I talk about running a bootstrapped SaaS business, SEO, and growth. Bootstrapped @ScrapingBee to $5m ARR (exited)
Paris, France
Joined March 2014
Big news! @ScrapingBee has been acquired by Oxylabs’ Group 🎉 @PierreDeWulf and I (almost) bootstrapped @ScrapingBee from day one, grew to 2500+ customers all around the world, and built a team of amazing people. This is a milestone we could only dream of when we launched
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🗺️Which Countries Joke The Most? We analyzed a year's worth of Reddit threads from around the globe using @MistralAI! 352,686 comments and 9,969 threads across country subreddits to see who's joking and who's not. The results? 👇 https://t.co/sSy4WumLJ7
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Explore global humor on Reddit! AI analyzes which nations joke most in this intriguing study of subreddit comments. Discover which countries try to be the funniest!
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✍️We're hiring a freelance technical content writer for the @ScrapingBee blog. If you love to write engaging technical content (not boring doc) you can apply here:
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I think the opposite. Once you have enough savings (12-24 months) you should go all in and quit your job. For most people in tech the worst case scenario, meaning their startup failing is not that bad. They can find a new job fast. So easy to procrastinate on « side projects
Personally I think you should have a successful side project before quitting your job to launch something online or the pressure to make things work will crush you.
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What is the best Heroku-like PAAS out there? @clever_cloud has been a literal nightmare lately and we need a stable solution.
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Make a B2B SaaS. You won’t need the 100k followers! You won’t need a lot of customers, lower churn…
Solo making sucks, And is just getting worse! We've got a problem. Big makers give advice, but they're already famous. Imagine this: A 100k follower account tweets "GM" and gets 30k views. Regular Joe does it, barely gets any. It's all about attention in the world, not the
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🪄 Another dive on how AI could help scrape structured data from HTML. This time, product information. TL;DR: non-determinism is a big issue. But we're getting there! https://t.co/VZIAjSoXss
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How to scrape prices from websites using ScrapingBee and AI to automatically get the price's element xPath
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🎥 First YouTube sponsor ever for @ScrapingBee! We worked with @colbyfayock on amazing coding tutorials. I’ve always been an advocate on "focus 100% on SEO". But we wanted to expand "top of the funnel" channels a bit. Excited to see how it goes. https://t.co/uovOrTl4nx
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Good luck everyone 📈📉!
Today we released the March 2023 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete:
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⚙️ Hey DevOps twitter! If you: - have experience scaling a Docker image to billions of API calls/mo - efficiently and scalably - are available for work ✉️ Please reach out pierre@scrapingbee.com PS: I have a much more detailed job description to share if there's a fit😉
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We're trying something new! 🐝 We've grown @ScrapingBee to $1m+ ARR, 99% thanks to SEO. But now feels like a good time to expand and explore new things! If you think you can help us do so, you'll be interested in our new position 👇 https://t.co/T28OH3MYom 🔁 appreciated 🙏
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Sales is more about listening to your customer's needs, genuine curiosity about the customer's problems rather than cold pitching your product. And I think as an introvert you're naturally better at this than extroverted personalities.
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At the beginning I was scared and it put me outside of my comfort zone. But the more I did it, the more I learned to use my introvert personality as a superpower: LISTEN!
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https://t.co/1zDWmmg4Af Lots of people in this thread are advising to automate the sales process or interact by email. My advice is the complete opposite. I've done hundreds of sales call with ScrapingBee as an introvert.
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We've made $1,000,000 online! It took more than 5 years for @SahinKevin and I to get there. Our first online product made: $867 Our second one: $5,460 🐝 ScrapingBee: $1m+ You never really know what's going to work 🤷♂️ Full story here for the curious: https://t.co/38fAijGXCl
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🚨 @ScrapingBee is hiring a full-time support engineer 👇👇👇👇
After more than 3000 supports tickets, @ScrapingBee is finally hiring a "support and pre-sale engineer". Full time, full remote. If you like to help people out knows about developer tools and web scraping, you could like this 👇 https://t.co/KkNlH3TvqW
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We just released a brand new ScrapingBee website 👇👇👇 Shout out to @PierreDeWulf for the hard work 💪
The new ScrapingBee website is finally here! https://t.co/Lb0yoiGpSg It only took: 📅 6 months 📩 150 emails 🕰 ~100 hours of integrations 🗑 90% of old code removed 🕵️♂️ ~15 hours of QA But we did it! So, what's the fuss about this new website?
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We just reached $1m in ARR 🎉 Must read thread 👇👇
We've made it to $1M ARR ✅ 2.5 years after launch, @SahinKevin and I finally reached that milestone. But it hasn't been an easy road, @ScrapingBee was far from being our first try at making money online. It all started a little over 14 years ago 👇
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