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Developer Builds 85 Pay-Per-Use Data Scrapers, Shares Lessons
A developer created 85 data scrapers as pay-per-use APIs on Apify, shipping new ones every few days. Key insights include positioning over features, optimizing for power users, and chaining scrapers for higher value. The project uses Node with Crawlee and Playwright, with anti-bot measures as a constant challenge.
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The article offers practical, non-hyped advice for indie developers building API products, though the approach is niche and unlikely to disrupt the data scraping market.
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