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longnguyen | 9 months ago

My friend Dmytro[0] has been running a screenshot API called ScreenshotOne[1]. He's been building it solo and has reached $20K MRR recently.

[0]: https://x.com/DmytroKrasun

[1]: https://screenshotone.com

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merek|9 months ago

Does he manage his own automated browsers? I suppose this could simply be a wrapper for something like Scrapfly (or Scraping Bee or Zen Rows or many others), with some custom JS injected to remove banners.

krasun|9 months ago

I managed my own cluster.

I didn’t consider wrapping any service.

What needed for scraping is a bit different for what needed to screenshot websites.

I need to have full control over my cluster to guarantee the best possible quality.

gervwyk|9 months ago

This is awesome. wondering how would a company like this build a user base? Any ideas / speculation would be appreciated!

krasun|9 months ago

It was unimaginably tough. If I were to start again, I wouldn’t do it. I would choose a much easier niche.

SEO, social media and other channels. I spent a lot of time on all of that.

yapyap|9 months ago

Wondering what his monthly profit is if that’s not too personal, MRR doesn’t really tell me anything when I don’t know operating costs IMO.

krasun|9 months ago

I spent a lot on servers. Around $5500 all monthly expenses.

financetechbro|9 months ago

Dug around their twitter a bit and they mentioned at one point having $14K MRR and $4K expenses

mnewme|9 months ago

Such a great product. Happy customer since years!

krasun|9 months ago

Thank you!

krasun|9 months ago

Thanks for the mention, my friend!

throwaway106382|9 months ago

holy crap - our company needs basically exactly this for a crazy feature our PM cooked up and we were gonna build something similar ourselves - this will save us so much time

Lord_Zero|9 months ago

Browserless can do this for free:

docker run -p 3000:3000 browserless/chrome:latest

n10ty|9 months ago

Following the journey from the beginning

geiger01|9 months ago

I also have a similar api Screenshot api and web scraping api

https://capturekit.dev

leoh|9 months ago

> Turn Websites Into Screenshots with a simple API

If anyone wants to build “turn websites into APIs” and do it really well like OP, feel free to hmu.

Highly experienced full-stack and rust developer with experience at startups, G and Google X.