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Operator-Reported

Real-Time Web Search and Crawling for AI Agents

Real-Time Search & Crawling API for AI Agents

In plain English

Crawleo gives AI developers fresh web search results and page content through one service. It replaces costly search feeds and fragile scrapers. Developers pay by usage. The founder reports the revenue.

Automation85%
Startup costNot disclosed
Time to first $Not disclosed
Monthly range*$100,000 /mo

$100,000/mo operator-reported revenue (Indie Hackers product page, Oct 29, 2026)

DifficultyHard
SourceIndie Hackers - Crawleo ↗

Operator: Ahmed Ellaban

Operator-Reported

A named, real operator ran this and shared results publicly. The figures are their own.

Not disclosed.

The tool stack

Stripe ↗
2.9% + 30¢ per charge

Payments

 Anthropic API ↗
Pay per token

LLM / agents

 Next.js ↗
Free (open source)

Web app framework

Prices are the vendors' published list prices as researched in Oct 2026 and change often — always check the vendor's pricing page.

Step-by-step setup

  1. Ship an API or tool developers and agents call directly.
  2. Great docs, SDKs and MCP/CLI access.
  3. Usage-based or tiered pricing.
  4. Grow via developer communities and integrations.

What's automated vs. the human 15%

The machine does

  • Core AI generation/analysis
  • Billing and onboarding

You still do

  • Product quality and support
  • Distribution and marketing
  • Compliance and edge cases

Overview

Real-Time Search & Crawling API for AI Agents. Crawleo exists to help AI developers access fresh web data without expensive search APIs or fragile scraping pipelines. With one privacy-first API, developers can search, crawl, and return clean AI-ready outputs for LLM

Operator: Ahmed Ellaban. Website: https://www.crawleo.dev/

Estimated split: about 85% of the work automated, 15% human.

Realistic income

The founder reports $100,000 per month in revenue on their Indie Hackers product page (checked Oct 29, 2026). This figure is self-reported and not verified by Stripe or any third party. This is one operator’s result, often after months or years of work, and doesn’t predict yours. Check the live source — numbers change.

Risks

  • Platform dependency on upstream models/tools.
  • Support burden from technical users.
  • Startup cost and time to first dollar are not disclosed.

*Income figures are illustrative ranges based on public pricing and typical outcomes reported by practitioners, not guarantees. Most new online businesses earn little or nothing at first. Not financial, legal or tax advice.

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