> We did an experiment where we would 'grep the web' for you, basically run a regex over a multi-billion page crawl, give you the first 50 results for "free" and you could buy the complete set. I think we sold exactly one of those.
Sounds like you didn't advertise it right. I've been looking for a "grep the web" service for a while.
For that $295 I will get a list of all domains using a rival technology... a list of sales leads.
I'm still short of what I want to have... a prioritised list of sales leads.
So I will write my own scraper to go through those results and scrape every one of those so that I can pull some info from the HTML page to tell me how large those customers might be. I'm not aiming for the largest (easy to find, costly to win), nor the smallest (time consuming and pointless to win), but the median.
I would definitely pay for a "grep the web" that allowed me to match pages by text signatures in the HTML, and then extract part of the DOM as values, and return the list of "url + extracted values" for the matching hits.
I'd consider that to be worth similar amounts to what BuiltWith are chaging, but I'd add more and would go up to $500 assuming that the results come with the extracted values as a CSV file of some kinda and the quality and completeness of the report is high.
People will pay for "grep the web", especially if you sell it to them as something they know they really want: "sales leads".
Sounds like you didn't advertise it right. I've been looking for a "grep the web" service for a while.
We're going to use https://builtwith.com/ to achieve that exact thing. It will cost me $295 : https://builtwith.com/plans
For that $295 I will get a list of all domains using a rival technology... a list of sales leads.
I'm still short of what I want to have... a prioritised list of sales leads.
So I will write my own scraper to go through those results and scrape every one of those so that I can pull some info from the HTML page to tell me how large those customers might be. I'm not aiming for the largest (easy to find, costly to win), nor the smallest (time consuming and pointless to win), but the median.
I would definitely pay for a "grep the web" that allowed me to match pages by text signatures in the HTML, and then extract part of the DOM as values, and return the list of "url + extracted values" for the matching hits.
I'd consider that to be worth similar amounts to what BuiltWith are chaging, but I'd add more and would go up to $500 assuming that the results come with the extracted values as a CSV file of some kinda and the quality and completeness of the report is high.
People will pay for "grep the web", especially if you sell it to them as something they know they really want: "sales leads".