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I built startupgrid.net in 2011 using PHP to scrape CrunchBase website; it was simply a front-end search and filter for Crunchbase. It worked perfectly up unti
by ccvannorman 4y ago
I built startupgrid.net in 2011 using PHP to scrape CrunchBase website; it was simply a front-end search and filter for Crunchbase.
It worked perfectly up until 2019 or 2020; Crunchbase didn't change their HTML and the server would run the scrape on user load (no db/caching). I don't know what the billing situation was, maybe Dreamhost, and I had moved on to other projects and left the renewal to auto.
Finally, it died because of some required manual updates to server/PHP version for security or something.