Thoughts on software engineering, startups, and building things that matter.
You were told there is no API and got stuck. Here is the ladder for pulling the data anyway, and what to hand a developer to get it clean.
Read more →Cheap scrapers die on a schedule. Here is why web scrapers break, and what an ongoing data feed that actually stays alive really requires.
Read more →Manual price checks go stale by lunch. Here is what automated competitor price monitoring gives you, and the hard parts worth paying for.
Read more →Build targeted B2B lead lists from public web data, enrich them into real contact records, and keep them fresh instead of watching them rot.
Read more →Can ChatGPT scrape a website? For one page maybe, but here is why it breaks at real scale and where AI genuinely earns its keep in a data pipeline.
Read more →Web scraping explained in plain English: what it is, where the data comes from, what it can and cannot do, and five real ways businesses use it.
Read more →Five years of startup experience taught me that early technical choices compound rapidly. Here's what I wish I knew about balancing speed, scalability, and technical debt.
Read more →An honest framework for deciding whether to hire a developer for web scraping or pay a service, plus the maintenance cost most teams miss.
Read more →A buyer's guide to hiring a web scraping partner: the exact questions to ask, the red flags to walk away from, and what good actually looks like.
Read more →What investors and agents actually want from real estate data, and how to turn scattered scraped listings into one clean, current feed.
Read more →How we built an AI-powered data extraction system that transforms unstructured documents into structured data with 95% accuracy, and the architectural decisions that made it scalable.
Read more →A non-technical founder can't judge a developer they hire alone. How to choose between a fractional CTO, a freelancer, an agency, or no-code.
Read more →If someone on your team spends hours copying data into spreadsheets, here's how to automate that manual work from collection to delivery.
Read more →How I architected a multi-cluster web scraping system that processes millions of pages daily, and the key lessons learned about reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
Read more →An introduction to my new blog where I'll share insights on software engineering, AI, and building innovative solutions.
Read more →A calm, plain-English look at when collecting public web data is fine, when it isn't, and a simple checklist to keep your business on the right side.
Read more →A plain-English guide to what a fractional CTO is, what one actually does, when a non-technical founder needs one, and what it costs.
Read more →What web scraping really costs, the factors that move the price, and how to spot a lowball quote before it burns your budget.
Read more →How I built a high-scale AI + scraping platform that processes 500,000+ pages/day for competitive intelligence in the legal industry.
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