A Solo Developer in Kochi Built a Web Scraping Tool That Earns $7,000 a Month
Sreejith Sreekumar turned a pattern he spotted on freelancing job boards into WebHarvy, a point-and-click web scraping product he runs alone from Kochi, India, bringing in $7,000 per month mostly through organic search.
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Business snapshot
Monthly revenue
≈₹6.6 lakh/mo
$7,000/mo · reported Apr 2022
- Business model
- SaaS
- Started
- Jan 2010
- Team
- Solo founder + 1 staff
- Based in
- Kochi
- Monthly revenue
- $7,000 per month
- Time to first version
- around 5 months
- Free trial length
- 15 day
- Refund window
- 15 days
- Resellers and distributors
- a dozen
Tools
- C#
- Microsoft .NET
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Digital River MyCommerce
- MailChimp
- Amazon AWS
- Zoho
- Freshdesk
- GitHub
- Google Analytics
- Notion
- Ubersuggest
Founder-reported figures, not independently verified. ₹ amounts use the ECB reference rate rate of Oct 2026 (₹94.82/$).
Who built it, and what they built
Sreejith Sreekumar is an independent software product developer based in Kochi, India. He founded SysNucleus, the company behind WebHarvy, a visual web scraping tool that lets users pull large amounts of data from websites through a point-and-click interface.
WebHarvy is his main product and source of revenue. Its customers range from individual consumers to businesses that need web data for marketing, sales, lead generation, academic and market research, eCommerce price monitoring, real estate, and machine learning. Since launch, the product has picked up thousands of customers.
He runs the business with two goals in mind: build software that genuinely makes users' work easier, and back it up with strong after-sales support through product improvements, fast answers to questions, and helpful content.
Where the idea came from
Sreejith studied computer science and spent his college years building free software utilities he shared from his own website in the early 2000s. After graduating, he worked at several major software companies in India as a Windows device driver developer, building drivers for USB devices.
The tools he needed for that job inspired his first product, USBTrace, a classic scratch-your-own-itch idea. He went full-time on it in 2007 and sold it to major tech companies including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Samsung, and LG. A follow-up product in the same space, USBShare, did not take off.
For his third product he wanted a wider audience. While doing consulting work, he browsed job posts on freelancing sites like Upwork and kept noticing requests for web scraping work. He saved the idea in his online notes and later researched the market.
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