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Dev.to · George Kioko
12h ago
From 0 to 1,092 Visitors and 419 Actor Starts: What I Learned Building 53 APIs
Last month, 1,092 people visited my Apify Store page. 281 of them clicked through to an actor's input...
Dev.to · George Kioko
2d ago
I Built a TikTok Shop Product Finder That 30 People Actually Use
Six months ago I started building scrapers on Apify as a solo developer. Most of them got 2 or 3...
Dev.to · George Kioko
2d ago
OFAC Sanctions Screening for $0.01 Per Entity (No Enterprise Contract)
If you work in compliance, you already know the pain. Sanctions screening tools from the big vendors...
Dev.to · George Kioko
2d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
4d 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
5d ago
I Got 250 Users on My LinkedIn Scraper Without Spending a Dollar on Ads
Back in January, I pushed a LinkedIn Employee Scraper to the Apify Store. No budget. No influencer...
Dev.to · George Kioko
6d 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
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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
3w 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
3w 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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