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A no-code scrapping platform

Hey ✌️,
I want to find a new product to develop and I think about a no-code scrapping platform.
There are many no-code tools for one-shot scrapping but I don't know of a tool that allows you to do it at scale and in a recurring way without coding requirements.
The power of something like scrapy but without code (and connected to others tools with zapier for example)

Do you think there is a market ?

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    How big is this specific market? Missing feature does not mean that people are looking for the feature.

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    I think there might be, but that's a huge goal to go after.
    How would you go about developing an MVP? And how would that MVP be better than some of the tools already on the market?

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    In my opinion there is a market, I think there are two potential obstacles.

    1. Lack of resuability: Some people only need to scrape once, then they wont need to scrape anymore. How are you going to price single users?

    2. Marketing: I sometimes check Upwork for freelancing gigs, and there are many simple scraping jobs that a simple no-code tool could handle. But my concern will be marketing your product and reaching users. Scraping can be needed by all types of businesses/people, this means your mass of users are not condensed in one area. How are you going to reach them? I'm thinking SEO, but will the common guy even search for a scraping tool rather than hire someone to do it? How is he going to know the product exists?

    These are some important points that I can think of.

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