Just launched my first 5 monetized APIs as a complete beginner! π
Over the past week I built a real-time data scraping suite on Apify:
π° Hacker News Trend Tracker
π» GitHub Trending Tracker
π Product Hunt Daily Tracker
π€ ArXiv AI Research Tracker
π SEC EDGAR Filing Monitor
Fun fact: my HN tracker flagged the $7B Stripe/OpenRouter acquisition rumor minutes after it went live.
Each tool costs $0.10 per 10 items to run, and the suite is listed on Glama.ai β so AI agents can discover and use the tools autonomously via MCP.
Currently at $0 MRR. My goal: my first paying customer this month. Any advice from API/data founders on landing that first customer would mean the world! π
The acquisition-rumor example is a strong demonstration of why real-time monitoring can matter. The harder part seems to be turning an interesting detection into something a customer depends on regularly, rather than just a useful one-off alert.
Hi Aryan, I just saw the email in my inbox! Thank you so much. I'm going to take a look at Beryxa shortly and send my thoughts your way. Really appreciate the strategic insight and the support on launch day! π