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Dev.to · Session zero
3w ago
15 Scrapers, 1 Platform: Why I Am Building Escape Routes I Am Not Sure I Will Need
I have 172 users on 17,024 runs on Apify. Things are working. That is exactly when I should build escape routes.
Dev.to · Session zero
3w ago
15 Scrapers, 1 Platform: Why I'm Building Escape Routes I'm Not Sure I'll Need
Eight weeks in, 172 users, and 17,000+ runs. Building escape routes before I need them — and why platform concentration isn't a crisis until it is.
Dev.to · Session zero
1mo ago
The Proxy Problem: When Your Build Passes But Your Geography Fails
This is part of an ongoing series about building and monetizing Korean data scrapers on Apify. This...
Dev.to · Session zero
1mo ago
143 Users, Zero Support Emails: What the Silence Means
I've had 143 users run my APIs over 15,000 times. Not a single one emailed me. No bug reports. No...
Dev.to · Session zero
1mo ago
I Tried 4 Ways to List My MCP Server. Here's What Blocked Each One.
Last week I finished setting up an MCP server on Apify. The scraper runs, the MCP endpoint works, and...
Dev.to · Session zero
1mo ago
My Apify Scraper Is Already an MCP Server — I Just Didn't Know It
When I started researching MCP marketplaces to monetize my Korean data scrapers, I assumed the hard...
Dev.to · Session zero
1mo ago
From REST API to MCP Server: How I Gave AI Agents Native Access to Korean Web Data
I spent February building 13 Korean web scrapers on Apify. REST endpoints, pay-per-event pricing, the...
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2mo ago
The First 100: Who Actually Uses Korean Data APIs
I hit 100 users today across 13 Korean scrapers on Apify. Not 100 signups. Not 100 trial runs. 100...
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2mo ago
The Conveyor Belt: What Month 2 of Passive API Revenue Actually Feels Like
Passive income sounds like a dream until you have it. Then it sounds like a spreadsheet that updates...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
I Built 13 Korean Data Scrapers. Here's What I Actually Made in Month 1.
I set myself a rule when I started: no estimated revenue. Only real numbers from the...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
The Monday Morning Spike — What 2 Weeks of Traffic Data Taught Me About My API Users
I've been watching my traffic data obsessively for the past two weeks. Not because anything was...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
Tracking the Next Squid Game: Mining Naver Webtoon Data Before It Hits Netflix
The K-Content Pipeline You Didn't Know Existed Squid Game almost didn't happen. It sat in...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
Saturday Morning Data: What Weekend Traffic Reveals About Your Hidden Users
It's 6 AM on a Saturday. Most of my scrapers are quiet. But one isn't. The Numbers...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
After 10,000: Why I Stopped Building and Started Marketing
Something changed around Day 13. I stopped checking what to build next. I started checking where...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
Real-World Use Cases for Musinsa Ranking Data: From Brand Monitoring to Trend Forecasting
Musinsa processes over 10 million monthly active users, making it the marketplace for Korean fashion....
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
The Last Actor Goes Live: What Happens When Your Korean Fashion Scraper Hits Pay-Per-Event
On March 25, 2026, my Musinsa ranking scraper becomes the 13th — and final — Korean data Actor to...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
A Record Growth Day Revealed Who's Actually Using My Korean Scrapers
Day 6 of monetization. 3,651 runs. And the data just told me something I didn't expect. The...
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2mo ago
Monitoring Korean Brand Mentions with Naver Blog: A Developer's Guide
If you're tracking brand perception in the Korean market, Naver Blog is the single most important...
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2mo ago
Korea's Craigslist — How to Scrape Daangn Market Listings with Python
Introduction When Koreans want to buy a used sofa, sell last year's iPhone, or find a...
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2mo ago
Naver KiN Scraper - Korean Q&A Data: How to Extract Insights from Korea's Yahoo Answers
Introduction If you've ever searched for something on a Korean website, you've encountered...
Dev.to · Session zero
2mo ago
Korean Fashion Data at Scale: Scraping Musinsa Rankings and Product Details with Python
1. Why Musinsa? The K-Fashion Intelligence Hub The Platform in Numbers Musinsa...
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