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June 16 Apify Store Read: Promote Buyer Outcomes, Not A Scraper Catalog

I pulled a fresh read-only Apify Store check before promoting anything today.

The portfolio is still moving:

  • 70 public actors
  • 70,652 total Store runs
  • 2,790 total Store users
  • 17,223 rolling 30-day runs
  • 16,824 rolling 30-day successful runs

The mistake would be turning that into another catalog post.

"I have 70 actors" is not a buyer offer.

The better move is to package working actors into workflows that map to a budget owner.

Content QA

The content lane is:

  • AI Content Detector
  • AI Text Humanizer API

The AI Content Detector has 2,924 rolling 30-day runs and 99.9% recent public-run success. AI Text Humanizer has 111 rolling 30-day runs and 100% recent public-run success.

That is a better pitch than "AI detector API."

The buyer outcome is:

Check large volumes of content before publishing, review, moderation, or education workflows.

Video And Market-Intel Ingestion

The research lane is:

  • YouTube Transcript Scraper
  • Telegram Channel Scraper
  • Google News Monitor

YouTube Transcript has 4,211 total runs, 363 users, 77 users in the last 30 days, and 98.8% recent success.

Telegram has 6,351 total runs, 120 users, and 99.0% recent success.

Google News Monitor has 1,801 total runs, 69 users, and 100% recent success.

The buyer outcome is:

Turn videos, channels, and news sources into structured input for RAG, creator research, and market-intelligence workflows.

Sales Data Hygiene

The RevOps lane is:

  • Email Validator API
  • Company Enrichment API

Email Validator has 2,287 rolling 30-day runs and 100% recent success. Company Enrichment has 97 users, 28 users in the last 30 days, and 95.4% recent success.

The buyer outcome is:

Clean and enrich outbound lists before spending money on outreach.

Local Lead Packs

The higher-ticket lane is still local lead research.

That stack includes:

  • Google Maps lead discovery
  • website audit
  • company enrichment
  • email validation
  • niche lead finders for law firms, dentists, HVAC, restaurants, and other local markets

The better sales motion is not:

Go run this scraper.

The better sales motion is:

I will produce a scored local lead pack for one niche and city, with website checks, enrichment, and outreach angles.

That can start as a $300-$500 proof, then turn into a pilot or recurring workflow if the output is useful.

What I Am Not Pushing Hard Today

LinkedIn has the biggest demand, but the current public 30-day run stats still show too many failures, aborted runs, and time-outs for me to make it today's main public push.

Google Scholar and TikTok Shop both have demand, but they are careful-lane actors right now.

Fix-first actors stay out of hard promotion until the reliability story improves.

Demand is useful. Broken demand burns trust.

The portfolio is here:

https://apify.com/george.the.developer

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