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It looks great, very good job.

One question you should be prepared to answer is how you compare to alternatives:

- Services like Kimonolabs and Import.io

- Building a scraper with Scrapy

- Using Scrapehub

From what I understand the price point of the above is lower (some are free) while still offering the same features. What can you offer that they don't?



- Simple and Minimal UI

- Crawl & Extract Static, Dynamic, Single Page Applications.

- Fixed pricing for unlimited scraping

I used Kimonolabs but found it falling short of Import.io. Import.io is great but it felt very bloated and complicated to use.

If you already know how to use Scrapy or a free solution and it works for you then honestly you won't need it.

There's also a free plan where you can run any number of jobs but each job has a limit of 30 minutes and a wait line.

Further adding to the price point, you can create as many scraping jobs and run it as often as you want but in the free plan there's a wait line at peak load.




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