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1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · about 1 year ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

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   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

Glimpse mentions (16)

• Advices on making money online.

  If you want to build something instead, I suggest taking a look at indie hackers to see what other people are doing or using a tool like glimpse to find trends before they pop-off and build a solution to those things. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What job would be the best for someone just getting into Computer Science?

  The most valuable and impressive thing you can do is build a business. Hands down. Especially if it makes money. That will show you're not just a cog in the wheel but able to critically think and have valuable practical skillsets. I would experiment with something that has tailwinds. Like an AI business, or a VR business once the new apple VR app store comes out. you'd be shocked at how much you can make... Source: almost 2 years ago

• I want to help entrepreneurs start successful businesses

  For example; trends.co is not very good because the people that write for them are journalists, not business owners so although the writing is good, the ideas are poorly researched. On the other hand, meetglimpse.com is pretty good, they have nuanced and unique business ideas that you can take advantage of but the market research behind it is a little lacking, their chrome extension tool is great tho. And then... Source: about 2 years ago

• What realistic online business could I start these days with 5000$

  a lot of things. I've built 3 online businesses that were profitable with under $1000. it's really just a hustle once you get product market fit. Starting something online shouldn't take that much money if you know how to test it. Check out like trends.vc, explodingideas.co, meetglimpse.com etc. They may be able to spark your creativity for ideas that could be good opportunities for the price point. Source: about 2 years ago

• Underrated/lesser known side hustles?

  Great idea. You should scrape ideas from meetglimpse.com, explodingideas.co, trends.co and the other sites that post ideas. Would be an easy way to bulk up the document. Source: about 2 years ago

Bright Data mentions (35)

• Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests

  Exactly that. It's an arms race between companies that offer a large number of residential IPs as proxies and companies that run unauthenticated web services trying not to die from denial of service. https://brightdata.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Reddit Recap: Audio summaries of subreddits powered by BrightData

  Reddit Recap is an application that scrapes subreddits using BrightData and generates concise summaries every two hours. These summaries are then converted into audio briefings, all accessible through a beautiful web app, allowing users to effortlessly stay informed about their favorite communities. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• State of the Art Automated Web Scraper using Bright Data

  Make sure to sign up on BrightData. Also complete the steps for the initial setup for Proxies & Scraping Infrastructure and Web Scraping API. Please make a note on the WSS Browser Credential, Webscraper Api Token. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Make Cursor Composer Smarter with Bright Web Scraping Capabilities

  So my goal here is creating a web scraper and web searcher using bright and gemini openai compatible model to make cursor composer more smarter with functionality like web search and web scrape. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• How to Use Proxies in Python

  Paid proxies: services like Bright Data or ScraperAPI provide reliable proxies with better performance and support, but you have to pay. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago