The latest articles on DEV Community by Mateusz Buda (@mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429). https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F883860%2Fa4ca17bc-447a-4326-8847-28d9a574de81.png https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429 en Mateusz Buda Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:03:24 +0000 https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/only-5-indie-hackers-products-make-100kyear-22oo https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/only-5-indie-hackers-products-make-100kyear-22oo <p><a href="https://indiehackers.com/">Indie Hackers</a> is a wonderful community for founders, a vast ocean of shared knowledge and a place to showcase your product journey. A lot of people are sharing their products there along with the revenue, often verified by Stripe. We analyzed the available data to check how much revenue are those products making and what are the most money making categories!</p> <p>At the time of our analysis, there were total of 937 products with Stripe verified revenue. The information we gathered to make this analysis are revenue and product's categories.</p> <h2> Most of the products don't make any revenue at all </h2> <p>A prevalent thinking is that making money as an indie developer is hard and most of the products end up with no revenue at all. Products on Indie Hackers seem to confirm this as more than 54% of the products are not making any revenue at all.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--o2AMSJJO--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8d0llkeqhhxhcu5g3lpk.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--o2AMSJJO--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8d0llkeqhhxhcu5g3lpk.png" alt="Revenue pie chart" width="880" height="767"></a></p> <h2> Revenue histogram </h2> <p>Let's now take a closer look at those products which actually do make money. Here's how much monthly revenue products are making.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--ZDntd2ni--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bp4j5n7atowl8aesma5l.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--ZDntd2ni--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bp4j5n7atowl8aesma5l.png" alt="Revenue histogram" width="880" height="435"></a></p> <h2> Conclusion​ </h2> <p>It appears that success in the world of indie developers is an outlier business. Only around 5% of the products we analyzed generate a monthly revenue exceeding ~$8,333 (around ~$100k/year) which is not that hard to earn as a software engineer in a full time job. Nevertheless, starting own company around the product provides an excitement and still a lot of people are pulled towards it.</p> <p>Interactive charts available in the original blog post: <a href="https://scrapingfish.com/blog/indie-hackers-revenue">https://scrapingfish.com/blog/indie-hackers-revenue</a></p> career startup motivation discuss Mateusz Buda Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:40:57 +0000 https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/scraping-instagram-2cdn https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/scraping-instagram-2cdn <p>A comprehensive tutorial for scraping public Instagram profile information and posts using a web scraping API.</p> <p><a href="https://scrapingfish.com/blog/scraping-instagram">Scraping Instagram</a></p> webscraping instagram api python Mateusz Buda Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:15:46 +0000 https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto-48b2 https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto-48b2 <p><a href="https://scrapingfish.com/blog/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto">Are Most Rust Jobs In Crypto?</a></p> <p>Rust is a relatively new programming language without established and highly developed job market yet. Being developer's <a href="https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted">the most loved language</a> though, many people would like to have a full-time job using it. There's a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/usu4jr/why_most_rust_jobs_are_in_blockchain/">prevalent</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/tt2bbv/are_there_any_remote_noncrypto_rust_jobs/">feeling</a> among Rustaceans that most of the Rust jobs out there involve blockchain tech. Indeed, anyone who was ever seeking for the job in Rust surely stumbled upon a cryptocurrency job offer. Is it really true that most offers are in crypto? We have scraped job ads to find the answer!</p> rust webscraping jobs data Mateusz Buda Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:08:19 +0000 https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/web-scraping-api-benchmark-3c7m https://dev.to/mateusz_buda_4d53f15c8429/web-scraping-api-benchmark-3c7m <p><a href="https://scrapingfish.com/webscraping-benchmark">Web scraping API benchmark</a></p> <p>A benchmark developed to test web scraping APIs in terms of reliability, proxy quality, speed and cost. It involves scraping various web pages that are commonly targeted in web scraping workflows.</p> webscraping benchmark api proxies