The UI for defining the scraper targeting rules is an A+ in my book. I've used a number of visual tools for this over the years but most try to do to much and the usefulness suffers. Yours doesn't.
Your price however feels off by about a factor of somewhere between 4 and 8. I haven't really got your system usage data to fully analyse but it feels too high a price. If your using full desktops and chrome browsers and the overhead is higher than I'm expecting based on past experience then perhaps the pricing is off by a factor of only 2
That also doesn't even account for the ability to take the scrape rules, reformat them to run with a headless scraper like scrapy when the website is suitable and is able to be scraped by scrapy, offering a reduced cost scraping option powered this way, throttled back to "human speed" is probably best priced around $1 or $2 a month per crawl thread.
I'm not saying the chrome browser powered crawling part couldn't be so inefficient you need to charge $20 to make 1 crawler pay for itself, but if that's the case, it's a growth limiter you should consider ways to optimise.
Right now your UI is about 10 times better than the open source Portia UI from scrapinghub, but your also 10x the cost of operating a Portia crawler. It's just something to keep in mind.
Your price however feels off by about a factor of somewhere between 4 and 8. I haven't really got your system usage data to fully analyse but it feels too high a price. If your using full desktops and chrome browsers and the overhead is higher than I'm expecting based on past experience then perhaps the pricing is off by a factor of only 2
That also doesn't even account for the ability to take the scrape rules, reformat them to run with a headless scraper like scrapy when the website is suitable and is able to be scraped by scrapy, offering a reduced cost scraping option powered this way, throttled back to "human speed" is probably best priced around $1 or $2 a month per crawl thread.
I'm not saying the chrome browser powered crawling part couldn't be so inefficient you need to charge $20 to make 1 crawler pay for itself, but if that's the case, it's a growth limiter you should consider ways to optimise.
Right now your UI is about 10 times better than the open source Portia UI from scrapinghub, but your also 10x the cost of operating a Portia crawler. It's just something to keep in mind.
TL;DR? Nice product, but a bit expensive.