Public information is everywhere — business listings, reviews, job posts, prices — but it's messy and scattered. The value is in collecting it, cleaning it, and structuring it into something a business will pay for: a targeted lead list, a competitor report, a live monitoring dashboard. A scraper gathers the raw data; Claude turns the pile into an organised, sellable deliverable. Slightly more technical than the other plays — and the fewer people who bother, the more it pays.
Nobody pays for raw data they could technically get themselves — they pay for it collected, cleaned, and handed over ready to use. The scraper does the gathering; AI does the cleaning; you sell the finished asset.
All buildable from a laptop with a scraper and Claude. The recurring ones (monitoring, dashboards) are the quiet winners — they pay every month.
A clean sheet of businesses in a niche + city with names, sites, emails and phone numbers. Every agency and sales team burns money on these. Claude cleans and verifies.
A structured directory — best vegan cafés in a city, local wedding vendors, indie SaaS tools. Sell access, or build an ad-supported site once it ranks.
Pull a business's competitors' reviews, prices, and social activity; Claude turns it into a plain-English "here's what they're doing better" report. High perceived value.
Track competitor prices, product availability, or new listings and deliver a weekly update. Set up once, it runs on a schedule — a recurring, hands-off income line.
Scrape hundreds of a business's (or their competitors') reviews and have Claude summarise the themes — what customers love, what they complain about, what to fix.
A tiny site that pulls one type of listing — remote jobs, local events, apartment openings — into one place. Earn from a small subscription or affiliate links.
One more moving part than the other plays — the scraper — but the beginner-friendly ones are point-and-click and have free tiers.
Apify, Instant Data Scraper (free Chrome extension), Octoparse or Phantombuster. Start with the free browser ones — no code to pull most public listings.
Dedupes, formats, fills gaps, and turns a raw data dump into a readable report or a tidy sheet. This is what makes the data sellable.
Where the finished list or feed lives and gets handed to the buyer. Free, universal, easy for clients to open.
Sell one-off reports on Gumroad, or bill monthly feeds through a Stripe subscription link. No upfront cost.
No hype. A little more technical than the rest — and priced accordingly.
Only scrape public data, and respect each site's terms of service and robots rules. Don't collect private or personal data, and follow local privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA) when handling contact info — that's what keeps this a legitimate business, not a liability. The upside of the extra care: most people won't do it, so the ones who do it cleanly get paid well.
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