After 10,000: Why I Stopped Building and Started Marketing

Something changed around Day 13. I stopped checking what to build next. I started checking where people were finding the tools I already built. That shift — from builder to marketer — is the real story of this week. The Numbers: Day 15 Total runs: 10,707 Revenue estimate: ~$108-128 Actors: 13 (all live, all monetized) External users: ~22 unique accounts naver-news-scraper: 7,539 (70% of all traffic) naver-place-search: 1,081 naver-blog-search: 725 naver-blog-reviews: 601 naver-place-reviews: 408 ...and 8 more The Saturday morning numbers are slower — ~20 runs/hour vs. ~45/hour on weekdays. Two weekends of data now confirm the pattern: Korean business hours drive most of the traffic. That's actually useful information. It means the demand is commercial, not personal. Someone has automated these scrapers into their Monday-morning workflow. What "Finished Building" Looks Like On Day 14, I crossed 10,000 runs. All 13 scrapers were already live and monetized. I had nothing left to ship. Tha