0xGollum

Indie builder shipping data tools on Apify: crypto signals, odds movement, options flow. Python, automation. ₿ Make me rich, my precious: bc1qufuf7pdjjnfy2pm0fs333jey2tjzjc5gwwk84c

Joined on Jul 12, 2026 https://linktr.ee/0xGollum

0xGollum

Aug 13

Your competitor launched a new Facebook ad 3 days ago. Did you notice?

#webscraping #api #marketing #automation

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0xGollum

Aug 12

Your Google Maps reviews just tanked. How would you even know today?

#webscraping #api #automation #apimonitoring

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 12

You scraped 200 local businesses. Which ones are worth calling first?

#webscraping #api #leadgen #automation

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 11

You scraped 500 leads. How many of those emails actually exist?

#python #api #webscraping #leadgen

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 9

Most sportsbook APIs block datacenter IPs on sight. I found the one sharp book that doesn't - and it's the one that matters most.

#python #api #webscraping

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

A shortening horse racing price is one of the oldest tells in betting. I built something to catch it before the off.

#python #api #betting #webscraping

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

Most people-search tools will sell you a phone number that's actually masked garbage. Mine refuses to.

#python #webscraping #api

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

My most profitable actor was silently failing most of its runs. The bug was one unprotected line.

#python #api #webscraping

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

WHO's largest-ever recorded Ebola outbreak in DRC is buried in a paragraph. We pulled out the numbers.

#news #python #api #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

When a company adopts Stripe or HubSpot, the only public trace is a script tag - if it even shows up in a plain page fetch.

#webscraping #python #api

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

Most companies find out about a breach the same way the public does: after it's already posted.

#security #cybersecurity #python #api

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

Nobody audits every dependency by hand. Something has to watch the registry instead.

#security #opensource #python #javascript

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 8

You know the dark web from the news. That's the extent of it.

#security #python #api

1 min read

0xGollum

Aug 4

I built a tyre price comparison actor across multiple retailers - a bug where a page's own analytics code had cleaner data than its HTML

#python #webscraping #api #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 4

I built a job search actor that aggregates 5 job boards - a $15/hour vs $50,000/year bug I found along the way

#python #webscraping #api #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 3

I built a tool that detects spiking complaints in app reviews - a baseline bug that only showed up at the extremes

#python #api #productivity #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 3

I built a hiring-intent scanner for target companies' job boards - two free unauthenticated APIs I found along the way

#python #api #webscraping #career

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 3

I built a lead scanner that watches the SEC's free real-time fundraising feed - here's what broke

#python #api #webscraping #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 28

I cloned my equity options scanner for crypto — the same 3 rules, a completely different data source

#python #crypto #api #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 28

Turning a Public Market-Transparency Dataset Into a Volume-Anomaly Scanner

#showdev #python #api #opendata

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 27

Signal Hub MCP: Plugging Trading Signals Directly Into AI Agents

#mcp #ai #apify

1 min read

0xGollum

Jul 24

Why I only track one bookmaker for my odds-movement signal (and it's not the popular one)

#webscraping #python #api #buildinpublic

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 24

Getting past Binance and Bybit's datacenter IP blocks without overpaying for proxies

#python #api #webscraping #crypto

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 22

I added a new feature to a live paid actor — the data was already there, I just wasn't reading it

#python #webscraping #apify #buildinpublic

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 20

I scraped live betting odds from 9 countries and never once hit a real anti-bot wall

#webscraping #python #api #buildinpublic

3 min read

0xGollum

Jul 20

What breaks when you scrape Steam Community Market at scale

#python #webscraping #apify #buildinpublic

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 16

What it actually takes to turn a Python scraper into a real Apify actor

#python #webscraping #apify #buildinpublic

3 min read

0xGollum

Jul 15

How I verify B2B emails without sending a single message

#showdev #python #emailverification #webdev

2 min read

0xGollum

Jul 12

I shipped 10 paid data scrapers in one week: what actually worked (and what quietly lost money)

#python #webscraping #sidehustle #buildinpublic

3 min read

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Your competitor launched a new Facebook ad 3 days ago. Did you notice?

Want to connect with 0xGollum?

Your Google Maps reviews just tanked. How would you even know today?

You scraped 200 local businesses. Which ones are worth calling first?

You scraped 500 leads. How many of those emails actually exist?

Most sportsbook APIs block datacenter IPs on sight. I found the one sharp book that doesn't - and it's the one that matters most.

A shortening horse racing price is one of the oldest tells in betting. I built something to catch it before the off.

Most people-search tools will sell you a phone number that's actually masked garbage. Mine refuses to.

My most profitable actor was silently failing most of its runs. The bug was one unprotected line.

WHO's largest-ever recorded Ebola outbreak in DRC is buried in a paragraph. We pulled out the numbers.

When a company adopts Stripe or HubSpot, the only public trace is a script tag - if it even shows up in a plain page fetch.

Most companies find out about a breach the same way the public does: after it's already posted.

Nobody audits every dependency by hand. Something has to watch the registry instead.

You know the dark web from the news. That's the extent of it.

I built a tyre price comparison actor across multiple retailers - a bug where a page's own analytics code had cleaner data than its HTML

I built a job search actor that aggregates 5 job boards - a $15/hour vs $50,000/year bug I found along the way

I built a tool that detects spiking complaints in app reviews - a baseline bug that only showed up at the extremes

I built a hiring-intent scanner for target companies' job boards - two free unauthenticated APIs I found along the way

I built a lead scanner that watches the SEC's free real-time fundraising feed - here's what broke

I cloned my equity options scanner for crypto — the same 3 rules, a completely different data source

Turning a Public Market-Transparency Dataset Into a Volume-Anomaly Scanner

Signal Hub MCP: Plugging Trading Signals Directly Into AI Agents

Why I only track one bookmaker for my odds-movement signal (and it's not the popular one)

Getting past Binance and Bybit's datacenter IP blocks without overpaying for proxies

I added a new feature to a live paid actor — the data was already there, I just wasn't reading it

I scraped live betting odds from 9 countries and never once hit a real anti-bot wall

What breaks when you scrape Steam Community Market at scale

What it actually takes to turn a Python scraper into a real Apify actor

How I verify B2B emails without sending a single message

I shipped 10 paid data scrapers in one week: what actually worked (and what quietly lost money)