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22 Users vs 8,400 Runs: Two Completely Different API Businesses in the Same Portfolio

22 Users vs 8,400 Runs: Two Completely Different API Businesses in the Same Portfolio

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I've been watching my 13 Korean scrapers since March 13th. Most of the time, the numbers blur together — total runs, total users, growth percentages. But this week I noticed something that changed how I think about what I'm actually building. Two of my most-used actors couldn't be more different. The Numbers Side by Side naver-news-scraper : 8,483 total runs. 6 users. naver-place-search : 1,113 total runs. 22 users. On the surface, naver-news looks like the winner. 7.6x more runs. More API calls, more usage, more revenue per month. But look at the user column again. naver-news: 6 users. 8,483 runs. That's ~1,414 runs per user. naver-place-search: 22 users. 1,113 runs. That's ~51 runs per user. These aren't just different numbers. They're different businesses. The News Actor: One Heavy User Running the Show If I lose my top naver-news user, I probably lose 60-70% of my naver-news revenue overnight. Maybe more. I don't know who they are. I've never seen their face or their use case. But

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