The Easy No Code Web Scraping Tool

I chat with Indiehacker Robert Balazsi who has built a no-code web scraping tool that has really taken off since he started building in public. Robert and I dive into juggling work and indiehacking, the importance of being your own customer, and leveraging building in public.

If you’re trying to juggle work and building something on the side, then this episode is for you.

Show highlights:

 0:35 – where to find a delicious Hungarian desert

1:40 – an unusual food Robert consumes

3:02 –15 minutes of fame / Ted Talk

5:57 – the no code web scraping tool Robert is building

8:00 – how Robert got into web scraping

10:29 – 1st version of Datagrab

11:28 – free vs paid version

13:40 – building this app like a hermit

15:45 – tips for indiehackers

18:38 – tips for juggling work and indiehacking

22:30 – MRR goal

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Past guests on Innovators Can Laugh include Ovi Negrean, Arnaud Belinga, Csaba Zajdó, Dagobert Renouf, Andrei Zinkevich, Viktorija Cijunskyte, Lukas Kaminskis, Pija Indriunaite, Monika Paule, PhD, Vytautas Zabulis, Leon van der Laan, Ieva Vaitkevičiūtė.

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