Pierre de Wulf
@PierreDeWulf
Bootstrapped @ScrapingBee to $5m ARR+ with a team of 6. Exited for 8 figures. Sharing my learnings about growth, SEO & tech. And some dumb jokes.
I've built several SAAS and side-projects those last 5 years 🛠 Not all succeed, but I learned a lot 🤓 Today I'm not sharing great life lessons and business tips. Today I'm sharing ten practical tips that will help you save time and money on your #IndieHackers journey. 👇
Every time I spend too much time choosing a product name, I remember that one of the most successful companies of all time is named after a fruit, and sells phones... It literally took us 10 minutes to come up with the name ScrapingBee. We had to do an urgent rebrand because…
Had the pleasure to be on Rob's pod to talk about ScrapingBee acquisition and what led to this. Had great time! Thanks for having me.
ScrapingBee was doing $5M ARR. Profitable. Tiny team. No pressure to sell. So why did @PierreDeWulf walk away? “Startups don’t die from lack of money. They die when founders get tired.” Full story with @robwalling in ep 783👇 startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episo…
Still no lambo. But investing in my future spine today.
As promised, gonna share Medium revenue with any random follower that like this tweet.
Is there a website that expose business model and unit economics of all kind of businesses? I’d really love to know the numbers behind: - a pizzeria - bord game editors - a bowling center - car rental ( where do all those used cars go? ) And basically anything making…
It's been 2 years and I still can't believe they did this.
Private banking is a $500B ego trap industry. Trying to understand what to do with new money and I keep hearing the same thing: - Founder exits - Acquisition hits LinkedIn - Private banker slides in - Promises of "exclusive opportunities" - Invites to F1, Roland-Garros, private…
Special thoughts to all the 2001-born devs named Claude entering the job market right now.
The amount of shit that CEO get for liking Coldplay is way out of proportion imho.
Startups felt like a coding game at first. Then we realized it’s a distribution game. But eventually, we learned it’s really a hiring game. And to me that's the hardest one of all.
If I’m going to get taxed 75%, I might as well have a nice view while crying about it.
I am now "I get happy seeing the first flowers of the tree I planted in the winter" old
Developpers are so damn cheap, it took a tool that could literally automate their whole job to get them to pay $20 a month.
Rebuilding all billing logic. Funny how the most important code of your app is also: - the most complicated - the most boring to write - the harder to test - the most sensitive in terms DDOS and hackers Huge respect for those building full product in this industry.
It took us 5 years and 4+ products to make our first $1m online. It took only 6 months to make the second one. I don't believe in "small bets". I don't believe in "never ever give up" either. I believe in "once you've found something that works, go 1000% all-in and ignore…
The team is growing fast. Communication gets harder. Enforcing this one rule had the biggest positive impact by far.
France prides itself on its cuisine, yet most restaurants can’t tell the difference between rare and medium-rare steak. Here's what you'll have 99% of the time when you order the latter. Cooks here think they're too good to use a temperature probe. So you end up with…
