My little side project: $500 in 3 weeks
Just in case someone is interested, check out my new startup, I'd love to have a feedback!
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I didn't think that a simple web scraping API (https://onipot.altervista.org/wp-content/sm/) could be so appreciated.
I just wrote ScrapingMonkey in 1 day, published on RapidAPI marketplace and shared on Twitter using hashtags of some sort.
Users began to try it and averagely, in these 3 weeks, half of them purchased the 'unlimited' version at $2.
I am a full time student and I was looking for a simple business that could be easy to handle and completely automated, so that I have to 'waste' nearly zero time for mainteinance.
In the past I launched some good websites, platforms, but they required too much effort. This time an API was the right choice.
I know that for most of you $500 might not seem a lot, but for me they are.
Honestly, the thing that I love the most is the fact that a lot of people are enjoying and using my product.. and this is so motivating!
Things that I have learned so far:
- Consistently share your product on the web
- Always include a free subscription plan
- Not necessarily you got to have an innovative idea. For me the key was: improvement of existing APIs.
- Focus on your product and try to 'outsource' other aspects: In my case I just manage the code, security and selling aspects are handled by the well known and trusted RapidAPI.
Have a good day!
Wow, congrats!
Regardless of the amount of money, it's 250 people who value what you have created, and that is impressive, and a great vote of confidence to motivate you to keep moving forward!
I will use the opportunity to ask you a couple of things... I didn't know about RapidAPI. How do they work? Is your code running on your server or on theirs? Are they just a middle man for payments or an all-round solution?
And finally, just out of curiosity, what are you programming in?
Hope I have cleared up your thoughts! :)
Thanks for the answers! Now I get what the role of RapidAPI is! Looks like a great solution, since it removes the biggest headaches of building api's.
I might give it a try. I have some tools I use for myself, and since now I know I don't have to worry about billing, limits, etc. could be nice to make public.
Second this!
Congrats, don't underestimate yourself!
Some takes months and years to get their first $500
what is your next milestone?
Absolutely going to improve server infrastructure.
Great job @onipot ! Any profit is good profit friend :) #treatyoself
This is amazing @onipot. Thanks for sharing and congrats on this fantastic revenue!
Thank you.. and I hope it will improve over time!
I have no doubt it will!
It is a lot! Congrats! I'm also a firm believer that consistency is key!
Absolutely.
Third point is really something. I see often times many of us overlook this.
Nice job, I also made a similar API to extract data from the news articles and posted on RapidAPI as well: https://rapidapi.com/kotartemiy/api/extract-news
How has the customer response been so far for you?
Literally none. It just works. Some people just use it.
I was planning to create an API and found this. Many thanks for the inspiration.
Keep it up.
Hey, nice job! Very happy for you...I have 1 question, how are you doing your accounting? Are they issuing you invoices for the 20% cut?
Congrats! This is really awesome!!
Amazing. Good luck!
$500 in 3 weeks is freaking awesome! Congrats.
Congrats mate! Well done to you
I am so stoked about your project..
congrats! how did you handle marketing?
Congrats!!
Great Stuff!
That's awesome, congrats! Are the $2 enough to cover the costs of the data hungry subscribers?
At the moment, yes they are. I'll see in the future!
Awesome, congrats!
Well done.
Thank you!
Bravo! That's a great result that many will envy.
thank you! :)