John Builder of Thing(s)

We asked industry expert @Adam_Dubo, co-founder of @Proxyway1, to pick a standout in Automation for the Apify $1M Challenge. Winner: Google Flights API by @JohnBuildsInPub! Automate Google Flights searches into structured flight data for price monitoring, travel apps, and workflows ✈️ Last $2K spotlight next week!

@Adam_Dubo @Proxyway1 @JohnBuildsInPub 🔗 Try the winning Actor: apify.com/johnvc/google-…

The FT called OpenAI “a money pit with a website on top.”

Ever wanted to scrape Google Hotels data at scale? Now you can with @apify github.com/johnisanerd/Ap…

@jackfriks Can you share a few of these ideas?

there are so many great ideas that are “so easy to hit $10k/month with” yet no one has the time to execute them lesson there

Getting closer . . .

Round 3. Video is looking sharper.

@marclou What's the r squared on this?

Startup revenue vs. Founder 𝕏 followers n=1000

@marclou Data is beautiful.

Much better video . . .

First try . . . reddit.com/r/RoastMyApify/

Trouble getting through the great firewall? We built a scraper on @apify to gather search results from @Baidu_Inc . apify.com/johnvc/baidu-s…

We built a way to scrape @YouTube transcripts automatically and quickly on @apify apify.com/johnvc/youtube…

We needed clean @yandexcom data for a research project… every tool broke. So I built one that doesn’t. Meet the @Apify @Yandex Search Scraper — reliable, fast, and edge-case-proof. 👉 apify.com/johnvc/yandex-… #webscrapingapi #apify #yandex #DataScience

🚀 Just launched on @apify ! The most developer-friendly @yandexcom Search Scraper is live. "In Soviet Russia, @yandex website scrape YOU." 😉 👉 Give it a spin: apify.com/johnvc/scrape-… #Launch #IndieHackers #Apify #WebAutomation

BEFORE: Spending hours trying to scrape @yandex results manually 😩 AFTER: Run one API call → clean structured data ✅ @apify meet @yandex - efficient, reliable, and dev-friendly. 👉 Try it now: apify.com/johnvc/scrape-… #WebScraping #DataEngineering #Apify #Automation

Yandex | Scrape @yandex Search Results at Scale apify.com/johnvc/scrape-…

@vijayanands The original AI = Air India

It slightly feels like it's gone overboard when Air India's inflight magazine is now called Namaste.ai

@dannypostma You should travel to Almaty Kazakhstan. You can hike in the summer (unmatched beauty) and ski in the winter (excellent skiing and adventure at a fraction of the cost of anywhere else in the world)

@php100 @iannuttall How is cursor squeezing its customers?

@JohnBuildsInPub @iannuttall Oh 100%. The subsidies alone make it worth it. $10k a month for $200, no brainer. Meanwhile Cursor is squeezing its customers because they're running dry on funding, no thanks.

Claude Code 1.0.48 is out. I just got the changelog notification for 1.0.45 What's in the latest version? 👀