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SKILL FILE

Scrape Indie Hackers with AI

Extract Indie Hackers posts, revenue milestones, founder profiles, and product data using Apify and Claude Code.

1M+ Indie Hackers users or records
300 items scraped per minute
$0.30 per 1,000 posts
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CROSS-DEPARTMENT FLOW

How scraped Indie Hackers data flows across your company

One scrape generates intelligence for every department — automatically

Scrape Indie Hackers Indie Hackers posts, revenue milestones, founder profiles, and product data
1 Configure Targets
2 Apify Actor Runs
3 Data Processed
4 Stored in CRM
Sales
  • → Identify prospects from scraped data
  • → Track competitor activity
  • → Source outreach targets
  • → Build lead lists
Marketing
  • → Content research and ideation
  • → Competitor strategy analysis
  • → Trend monitoring
  • → Audience insights
Growth
  • → Market sizing and analysis
  • → Engagement benchmarking
  • → Growth opportunity identification
  • → Platform trend tracking
CRM
  • → Data records stored
  • → Engagement metrics indexed
  • → Source attribution tagged
  • → Historical data tracked
Lead List
Research Report
Trend Analysis
Market Report
Events Tracked
Indie Hackers data collected
Patterns identified
Benchmarks established
Replaces Custom monitoring
$25/mo $2/mo
$276/yr saved
Scrape Indie Hackers Indie Hackers posts, revenue milestones, founder profiles, and product data
1
Configure Targets Indie Hackers URLs, keywords, or filters defined
2
Apify Actor Runs Scraper extracts data — $0.30/1,000 posts
3
Data Processed Records cleaned, scored, and categorized
4
Stored in CRM Intelligence pushed to Neon database with attribution
Sales
  • → Identify prospects from scraped data
  • → Track competitor activity
  • → Source outreach targets
  • → Build lead lists
Marketing
  • → Content research and ideation
  • → Competitor strategy analysis
  • → Trend monitoring
  • → Audience insights
Growth
  • → Market sizing and analysis
  • → Engagement benchmarking
  • → Growth opportunity identification
  • → Platform trend tracking
CRM
  • → Data records stored
  • → Engagement metrics indexed
  • → Source attribution tagged
  • → Historical data tracked
Content Outputs
Research Report from marketing
Lead List from sales
Trend Analysis from marketing
Market Report from growth
Everything Tracked
Indie Hackers data collected
Patterns identified
Benchmarks established
Replaces Custom monitoring
$25/mo → $2/mo
$276/yr saved
REPLACES

Cancel your Custom monitoring subscription

CANCEL THIS

Custom monitoring

$25/mo
  • × Subscription fees
  • × Data locked in their dashboard
  • × Per-seat pricing
  • × Export limits
vs
BUILD THIS

SoloStack + Claude Code

$2/mo
  • ✓ Pay-per-use, no subscription
  • ✓ Your data in your repo
  • ✓ Zero vendor lock-in
  • ✓ Unlimited exports
Save $276/year
WHAT YOU GET

What this skill file teaches Claude

Drop one markdown file into your repo. Claude Code learns how to run this entire workflow.

1

Data Extraction

Pull key data points from Indie Hackers including profiles, content, and metadata.

2

Search & Filter

Search by keywords, categories, or specific URLs to target exactly what you need.

3

Engagement Metrics

Capture engagement signals — views, likes, shares, and comments for every item.

4

Bulk Processing

Process hundreds or thousands of records in a single run with automatic pagination.

5

Export & Integration

Output clean JSON ready for CRM import, analysis, or integration with other tools.

Apify Actor: epctex/indiehackers-scraper · ~$0.30 per 1,000 posts
IN ACTION

Build it with plain English

Tell Claude Code what to do. It handles the rest.

claude — solostack/
you: | 
Processing Indie Hackers data...

✓ Data extracted successfully
✓ 234 records collected
✓ Cleaned and deduplicated
✓ Ready for CRM import

Data saved to scrape-indiehackers-results.json
you: | 
Processing Indie Hackers data...

✓ Data extracted successfully
✓ 567 records collected
✓ Cleaned and deduplicated
✓ Ready for CRM import

Data saved to scrape-indiehackers-results.json
you: | 
Processing Indie Hackers data...

✓ Data extracted successfully
✓ 89 records collected
✓ Cleaned and deduplicated
✓ Ready for CRM import

Data saved to scrape-indiehackers-results.json
USE CASES

What you can build with this

Founder discovery

Find founders building in your space. Extract their product details, revenue milestones, and contact info for outreach.

Revenue benchmark research

Analyze public revenue milestones to understand typical growth patterns for products similar to yours.

Market validation

Search for discussions about your product category to gauge founder interest and common approaches.

Community-led content

Mine IH discussions for content ideas — questions founders ask, tools they recommend, challenges they face.

IMPORTANT

Things to know

!

Indie Hackers has limited anti-scraping but is a small community. Be respectful with scraping volumes.

!

Revenue data is self-reported and unverified. Treat as directional, not factual.

!

The platform is less active than it was in 2020-2022. Recent data may have lower volume.

COMPLETE SKILL FILE

Get the full skill file

Everything above is 80% of the skill file. Download the complete version with full implementation details, agent prompts, and ready-to-run scripts.

FAQ

Common questions

Scraping publicly available data from Indie Hackers is a gray area. Most courts have upheld that public data can be accessed for research purposes. Always respect the platform's ToS, use data for internal research only, and comply with GDPR/CCPA when handling personal information.
For trend monitoring, weekly scrapes capture meaningful changes. For competitive analysis, bi-weekly to monthly is sufficient. The optimal frequency depends on how quickly data changes on the platform.
The Apify actor uses residential proxies and request throttling to minimize blocks. If you experience issues, reduce request volume, increase delays between requests, and consider running scrapes during off-peak hours.
Yes. The output is clean JSON that can be directly imported into Neon (Postgres), Airtable, or any CRM with an API. Use the TypeScript integration code in the skill file to automate the pipeline.
Apify charges ~$0.30 per 1,000 posts. A typical research run costs $1-5 depending on volume. Compare that to SaaS alternatives at $25/mo — you save $276/yr saved.
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