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Here is my story, which may provide some inspiration. My co-founder was searching for an apartment to purchase and found that all the tools he was using had we
by mateuszbuda 4y ago
Here is my story, which may provide some inspiration.
My co-founder was searching for an apartment to purchase and found that all the tools he was using had weaknesses and none of them met his needs. We decided to create an aggregator for real estate offers. Initially, we intended to target users looking to buy an apartment, but we later pivoted to focus on real estate agencies and added features around this. After more than two years of part-time work on the project, we gave up as it was not sustainable for various reasons.
However, while working on that project, we had to develop a web scraping infrastructure to collect data reliably for our system. We realized that we could create a separate product based on this, which led to the development of Scraping Fish API for web scraping: https://scrapingfish.com https://scrapingfish.com. We understood the market and our potential users/customers well, as we were the users of the system before. It makes it easier to sell a product when you understand the market and your target audience.
You can read more about our journey on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/scraping-fish https://www.indiehackers.com/product/scraping-fish.