A Record Growth Day Revealed Who's Actually Using My Korean Scrapers
Day 6 of monetization. 3,651 runs. And the data just told me something I didn't expect. The Numbers That Stopped Me Yesterday was the biggest single-day user growth since I launched 13 Korean web scrapers on Apify: +9 new users in 24 hours. To put that in context β it took my first two weeks to accumulate 15 unique users. Then in one day, 9 more showed up. But the raw number isn't what's interesting. It's who they are and how they're using the scrapers. The Blog Search Explosion The biggest surprise was naver-blog-search . This actor went from 6 users to 10 users overnight β a +67% jump in a single day: Actor Before After Change naver-blog-search 6 10 +4 π₯ naver-place-search 11 13 +2 naver-kin-scraper 2 4 +2 naver-news-scraper 3 4 +1 Why blog search? I have a theory. Korean companies heavily rely on Naver Blog for brand monitoring. Unlike Google where SEO is king, in Korea, blog posts are the primary discovery channel for consumers. If you're a Korean brand, you need to know what blogg
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