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This is very cool! I love how you brought back the original Kimono UI with the checkmark and Xs for adding and removing data tags. We built WrapAPI (https://wr
by phsource 7y ago
This is very cool! I love how you brought back the original Kimono UI with the checkmark and Xs for adding and removing data tags.
We built WrapAPI (https://wrapapi.com https://wrapapi.com) back in the day, before we ended up starting Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com https://wanderlog.com), our current travel planning Y Combinator startup. This definitely is still an unsolved problem.
However, from a business point of view, we found that it was rather difficult to make a business out of an unspecialized scraping tool. The Kimono founders expressed a similar sentiment: ultimately, scraping is a solution looking for a problem.
Developers can often roll their own solution too, which limits your customer base and how much you can charge. Instead, vertical-specific tools that target particular industries seem to be the way to go (see Plaid as an example!)
Alternatively, you have to be good at Enterprise and B2B sales. This is a product that you need to get the word out, get a champion, and do customer success on since it has a substantial learning curve. We were not, so that was why we chose to focus on other projects to start out
Best of luck, and feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat more
- xmly 7y agoVery insightful comments!
- welanes 7y agoThanks! Yeah the checkmark confirmation just feels effortless. Haven't got it perfected yet, but soon. Really appreciate the insights. You're right that much depends on mapping the solution to a particular problem. Are you selling yet another scraping tool or are you freeing data to drive better decisions / save time / yada yada. With the right frame, a sensible price point, and as much complexity abstracted away as is possible, there may exist a business model - seems to be many opportunities hiding in plain sight. Will reach out soon for sure. Best of luck with Wanderlog
- bravura 7y agoI tried your site and am curious that, for ko pha ngan there is only one recommended resource. Shouldn’t there be more? On my mobile device on brave iOS, entering the Date in the calendar was janky FYI and i had to click another text box to keep my date selection and make the calendar widget disappear, so I could submit the form.
- MetalGuru 7y agoCurious, what comparison are you making with Plaid here?
- phsource 7y agoPlaid, Yodlee, and others abstracts away extracting data from various banks and financial services providers, so they're providing a solution built on top of the same data extraction techniques that this tool uses
- MetalGuru 7y agoOh, interesting. I thought they just provided secure authentication to an app’s end users’ bank accounts for things like payments (an alternative to someone like PayPal doing two microtransactions, then having you confirm the amounts as a way of validating it’s your account). It’s not like Plaid is scraping financial data though, right?
- detaro 7y agoScraping is incredibly common with banking apps like that, because many banks do not have APIs (and are only changing slowly).