📨 The best cold email I've ever got

AI is good at coding and answering questions because it was trained on code and answers.

Next step is to train on sales data, patterns, marketing campaigns, strategies, etc to have a real marketer instead of stupid header generator.

I'm going to focus the next couple of weeks on DX for Webcrawlerapi.

In order to do this, I will build a small side project using my own API.

Let's see how it is to be a client of my own service.

November 📉

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After receiving some positive signals from previous months, I got zeroes in November.

Apparently, the way I'm building gives zero results.

I now want to pause endless grinding and think about how to work next.

Stages of bootstrapping project:

My idea is so unique
I will lunch in 2 days
7 months of grinding
Ok, I will find a better idea

🚀 Scraper AI is live on WebcrawlerAPI
Powerful combo of scraping + LLM model.
Free to try out: no registration required!

You don't need to scrape the data and send it to LLM manually - just type the URL and prompt and get the structured data output.

Blog post list scraping example:

Google gave me a chance for a search keyword, but I failed 😕
I added a basic Zillow Property scraper: put a URL and get detailed property info in JSON. Google received a signal and gave me a chance and started showing my page for a "Zillow Scraper" keyword. But...

Scraper toolkit in JS:
node-fetch
axios
got-scraping
puppeteer
residential proxy

What else am I missing?

Some websites don’t want to be scraped.

But there is no protection against scraping except hiding everything behind the login page.

But the thing is: if the page is available for user it is possible to get its content automatically, using some script.

🦋Bsky made it very clever: after registration and the first post, they quickly show your profile to other. Got a lot of impressions, likes and potential subscribers.

This gives a visibility of live network with a lot of active users.

Smart.

Pretty simple idea: to sell logos and icons of companies.

brandfetch.com

But they've built a big product around it.

For a new product, having all possible features is unnecessary.

More important is to be ready for a specific request.
I monitor all requests that the user sends.

A good product markets itself. True.

But…

When does a prospect find out how good the product is? When they buy it!

But how will they find out about it in order to buy it without marketing?

Albert Einstein was once giving an exam paper to his graduating class. It turned out that it was the exact same exam paper he had given them the previous year. His teaching assistant, alarmed at what he saw and thinking it to be the result of the professor's absentminded-ness, alerted Einstein.

«Struggling business owners will spend time to save money, whereas successful business owners will spend money to save time.»

Talking widely: save your time, this is something you can’t get back.