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This is not simple at all! There are hundreds of corner cases to code for, you need a swarm of machines to crawl etc. When he started more than a decade ago, t
by justaguyhere 8y ago
This is not simple at all! There are hundreds of corner cases to code for, you need a swarm of machines to crawl etc.
When he started more than a decade ago, there was zero competition and it was a novel idea. Now there is stiff competition.
This is far from simple - this is actually a very serious project, not an example of 500$ stuff!
- faitswulff 8y agoThe idea is quite simple - crawl websites and figure out what makes them tick. Of course you're not going to enter the exact same market. No one is obligated to find a competition-free, low-hanging niche for you to occupy.
- AznHisoka 8y agoA lot of billion dollar company ideas are simple too like Facebook, Salesforce and Yelp. But I doubt 1 person can build those. Those BuiltWith folks probably have hundreds of regression tests running daily. Maybe a bunch of freelancers who check for newer versions of software too every month.
- faitswulff 8y agoYou are aware that BuiltWith itself was built by one person, right?