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I pulled up my Apify dashboard this morning before coffee. The number I was hoping for was a positive margin. The number I got was negative 33 percent. $20.94 in compute and proxy cost. $15.63 in revenue. I was paying users to run my actor. The actor...
Yesterday I posted about losing $540 a month to silent user churn. The day after, I went looking at why my LinkedIn scraper itself was bleeding compute every run. Found three bugs that were quietly eating margin. Shipped fixes today. If you missed it...
My Apify portfolio went from $268 rolling 30 day profit to $50 over about three weeks in April, and I spent most of that stretch assuming it was a reporting glitch. It wasn't a glitch. Two agency buyers who'd been running my Google Maps Lead Intel ac...
Was building a training set from AI podcast transcripts and hit YouTube API's 10,000/day quota immediately. Here is how I worked around it. The problem YouTube Data API v3 has a 10,000 unit daily quota per project. A transcript pull costs about 1-3 u...
I run a LinkedIn employees scraper on Apify that had a 62% false positive problem. Here is how we fixed it. The false positive problem The first version was a Google dork. Query site:linkedin.com/in/ "TargetCompany" and parse the SERP. Fast, cheap, a...