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Chrome Extension Rebuild Database for Indie Makers - 9,656 Researched Listings

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Raf's answer about Perplexity Pro for the competitor column is the part I'd poke at, not the scraping. Store data is a fact you can re-fetch; "who competes now" is a model's answer on the day it was asked, and that's the exact field someone bets a month of rebuilding on. We run an aggregated job board, around 6,700 open listings re-pulled from dozens of sources every six hours, and the columns we generate rather than fetch are the ones that quietly go wrong, because nothing errors when they age, they just stop being true. A dead-by-Manifest-V3 row also reads as a very different bet from a dead-by-no-demand row, since only the first leaves the userbase genuinely orphaned. Does the competitor field get re-run on a row before someone buys, or is it the single snapshot from when the 9,656 were collected?

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Super interesting idea,
Was all the research done using AI or you mainly scrapped the chrome store?

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Raf VantongerlooAuthorMar 8, 2026

Hi Shadab, I used both scraping of the Web Store as well as Apify and Perplexity Pro API for other public sources (like the competitor info). The complete database has cost me quite a lot of API credits. :)

Great idea nice website. it would be awesome if u could start a newsletter sharing 1 chrome extension daily so people who are skeptical to buy at first can subscribe to it and may be after few ideas then can pay to access the complete file.

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Raf VantongerlooAuthorMar 8, 2026

Thanks for the feedback, Karan. I've now added something extra to the website, that's even better than your idea, I think. :)