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⚡ AI Lessons
Dev.to · George Kioko
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I build the scrapers the data vendors run on, and I need to tell you what you are actually paying for
I have built the scraping guts behind more "real time business intelligence" products than I would...
Dev.to · George Kioko
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Humanize AI Text at Scale Without Paying for Another LLM Call
LLMs are good at producing a first draft. They are also good at producing the same first draft over...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
4 days to lock in current LinkedIn scraper pricing
Short post. The LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper on my Apify portfolio is raising PPE pricing on...
Dev.to · George Kioko
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
6 Apify actors I actually use myself
I have 27 public Apify actors. Most are good. Six are genuinely useful and I run them through n8n and...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📋 Product Management
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
What I shipped after the $540 silent churn postmortem
Yesterday I posted a postmortem on losing $540 a month to silent user churn. Some folks asked what...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📋 Product Management
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
How I lost $540/month in 30 days to silent user churn (and didn't notice)
Last week my 30 day profit dropped from $268 to $50 and I assumed it was a bug in the dashboard. It...
Dev.to · George Kioko
🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
2 Users Pay Me More Than 353 Users: The Pricing Lesson That Changed Everything
I have 48 actors running on Apify. Same platform, same developer, same tech stack. Two of those...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
The 5 APIs That Run 200+ Times Per User (And Why That Matters)
Most developer tools get used a handful of times. Someone finds your API, tries it on a test case,...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Google Scholar Has No API Either. Here's What 5,000 Runs Taught Me
Google Scholar is the single most important search engine for academic research. Billions of papers...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
YouTube Has No Transcript API So I Built One (150 Users Later)
You know what's wild? YouTube, a Google product, has no official API for pulling video transcripts....
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
My LinkedIn Scraper Just Hit Top 20 on Apify — Here's How I Built It
I woke up last week to an email from Apify saying my LinkedIn Employee Scraper had earned the Rising...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
The 5 APIs That Run 200+ Times Per User (And Why That Matters)
Most developer tools get used a handful of times. Someone finds your API, tries it on a test case,...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Google Scholar Has No API Either. Here's What 5,000 Runs Taught Me
Google Scholar is the single most important search engine for academic research. Billions of papers...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
YouTube Has No Transcript API So I Built One (150 Users Later)
You know what's wild? YouTube, a Google product, has no official API for pulling video transcripts....
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
I Built 48 APIs Covering Everything From LinkedIn to Sanctions Screening
Three months of shipping from Nairobi. 48 actors on the Apify Store. 746 users. $211 in revenue this...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
I Built a $0.03 Lead Enrichment Pipeline That Replaces $99/month Tools
Sales teams spend $99 to $300 per month on tools like Apollo, Hunter, and Clearbit just to find...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
My LinkedIn Scraper Just Hit Top 20 on Apify — Here's How I Built It
I woke up last week to an email from Apify saying my LinkedIn Employee Scraper had earned the Rising...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
45 Scrapers, 600 Users, $0 Marketing Budget — What Actually Worked
I spent the last few months building 45 web scrapers and APIs on Apify. No team, no marketing budget,...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
I Built a $0.01/call Alternative to DefiLlama's $300/month API
Last month I needed real-time DeFi chain data for a trading agent I was building. TVL, fees, active...
Dev.to · George Kioko
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
How to Build a LinkedIn Data Pipeline Without Paying for Sales Navigator
The Problem with LinkedIn Data Access LinkedIn charges $800–$1,200/month for Sales...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
How I Got 4,310% Growth on My API Portfolio in 30 Days (No Ads)
I'm George, a solo developer. A month ago I had 10 actor starts across a handful of Apify actors....
Dev.to · George Kioko
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Stop Manually Copying YouTube Captions: Automate Your Video Data Pipeline
As developers, we know that video content is a gold mine of information. Whether you're building a...
Dev.to · George Kioko
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
I Built 34 Web Scrapers — Here's What I Learned About Anti-Bot Detection
Over the past year, I've built 34 production web scrapers serving 300+ users with 4,200+ combined...
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