Data Excavator

How Selling Motor Oil Led Me To Create A $48K/Year Web Scraping Tool

September 1st, 2022
Vitaly
Founder, Data Excavator
$4K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
Data Excavator
from Tbilisi, Georgia
started April 2019
$4,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi! My name is Vitaly, and I am a programmer. More precisely - a programmer and an entrepreneur. On one hand, I just love programming (15 years in PHP, JS, C#, C++, MySQL, and PostgreSQL). On the other hand, I hate doing it.

You know, it's not easy to combine the love of programming and the ability to build a business. This is probably because a good entrepreneur shouldn't care too much about what's "inside", under the hood. And a good programmer doesn't have to worry at all about sales and organizational issues. A good programmer stands for quality. And a good entrepreneur stands for big sales and getting results "right now". And you know what? I love prototyping on my own and getting involved in problem-solving on a private level. It's such an interesting conflict.

I've been building and launching startups, both in-house and external, for over 10 years. During that time, I've been involved in the creation of a wide variety of products. Well, for example: a search engine for goods and services, a time management system with a built-in fingerprint scanner, huge x-ray units for airports, GPS vehicle monitoring, QR-code advertising service, an interactive 3D city...

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