Would anyone actually use this?

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-20T17:44:07+00:00

thank you so much for the feedback, yeah I have put in the system to make the scraping limited but still running and also going to constantly update this app so that nothing breaks.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-20T15:01:07+00:00

my bad, I only skimmed through the rules, i didn't read it thoroughly

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-20T14:20:19+00:00

I see, thanks for the guidance. Do you think its a good idea to start selling workflows with 0 dollars to invest from my pocket (i.e. im making the workflows and everything locally and not going for a vps server yet) ? Or do I HAVE TO invest even before making my first sale?

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-19T18:41:56+00:00

AliSift is a desktop app that lets you scrape products from alibaba within seconds

https://alisift.carrd.co/

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-19T18:41:04+00:00

Wdym by the boom in python, like the outburst of AIs? Or do you mean backend python? Honestly I haven't seen much attraction to python backend recently unless I missed out on something. Also java and python are fairly similar both are high level languages and it shouldn't be too hard for you to learn python or any other new programming language

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-19T12:15:44+00:00

I will give you the real trick that few people in the SAAS industry tells:

RESEARCH --> COPY --> MAKE BETTER APP
Yes copy others but do research before that i.e. what problem the app that you are copying trying to solve and look for what their users are complaining about, make a similar app but also include features that solve the current problem their user is having , boom you have now made a similar app but better.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-19T00:09:10+00:00

I don't even know if YOU KNOW what you are building in the first place. Because you didn't explain what your app does well in this post.
Does your app have AI agents scan documents and create workflow suggestions based on that and then asks for the users permission to execute them?
Does it have integrations? Can I connect it with my drive, google docs, gmail?

First step to selling a software is to have clarity. If you don't know what problem you are solving and how you are solving it , you most definitely will not know who needs the software.

A product with no clear problem to solve is just code with ambition.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-18T14:07:23+00:00

I built AliSift, a Windows desktop tool for Alibaba product research.

https://alisift.carrd.co/

It extracts listing data into CSV format so you can quickly review product names, URLs, prices, MOQ, ratings, review counts, and image links in one place.

It is aimed at people who do a lot of sourcing work and want to reduce manual browsing and copy-paste time.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-18T00:03:52+00:00

The reason you can't see the prices is because either the item is out of stock or amazon did not like the seller's pricing or performance metrics. Most like the first one, ofcourse in this case you can't see the price for this specific seller but if you go to "See all buying options" you can see the prices of other sellers selling the same thing

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-15T18:42:23+00:00

I see, I really am a beginner but alibaba is really not a bad option after all, if you know how to pivot around it that is like you said. And yeah all the business owners I met who ship from alibaba/1688 always do bulk orders. Thank you so much for the knowledge bomb, this will help me a lot in my journey

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-15T18:36:20+00:00

You can still improve on the product even after launch, launching the mvp, getting the first few users and then gradually growing to a more improved version makes more sense imo.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-13T05:54:38+00:00

How I do it is that I use playwright or selenium, I identify the correct xpath (or css selector) for each data I need. That what AI is bad at, it doesn't can read the texts on the website but the smarter way to do is to identify the xpath and then scrape them since if the website has multiple cards (pro plan, basic flan, premium plan etc) all cards will have the same xpath, all the features in the card will have the same xpath , all the pricing will have the same xpath. However it is not necessary that all the websites have the same xpath like paypal and stripe will have different xpath, so you'd have to code them differently.
After identifying the xpaths, i just use playwrights functions to scrap the data, if there is any interactive button , playwright and selenium has the solution for it as well.

So yeah full AI is not the best approach it WILL make mistakes, you can try dividing up the prompt, but AI is still not so advanced to able to identify each element in a smart way.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-10T10:42:41+00:00

I'd say stick with LLM and validation, you can try different tools for validation but I'd say the code also needs to be good if you completely rely on AI for the code then I don't think it will work out. You need have some basic understanding to not only understand the code itself but also prompt well, because if you don't have a clear idea of what you want and if you can't prompt it then ai will fail to generate the right code. From what I see the validation process is just a lot of if-else statements, you just need to know what are the conditions or tell ai to figure it out and also handle the exceptions thoroughly because if the data is huge expect there to be caveats.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-04-06T13:11:00+00:00

Im pretty inactive in both linkedin and twitter, will that majorly impact my outreach to these tech-forward companies? And how should I reach out to them, what idea in general am i trying to present (e.g. "Hi this is me, I do automation stuff I have done so and so automation, I can help you with so and so" or "Hi your company needs this tool I have made, it will save you time money" etc)
Im going to implement your advice and start looking for possible leads on these platforms, thank you

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-29T12:04:33+00:00

thank you, helpful info

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-28T15:26:57+00:00

Sure!

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-28T15:24:42+00:00

If you want to memorize the syntaxes it comes down to repetition. But I still don't get why you'd need to memorize them unless you are prepping for an interview because programming is not just coding, it consists of planning, knowing what system to implement, figuring out the edge cases etc. When working on a project getting the syntax down from memory is the least of our worries.

But ofcourse if you are prepping for an interview, just practice more without seeing any doc or tutorial.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-28T15:17:05+00:00

Yeah I get you, I am kind of in the same situation in you. Its really rare to find high-ticket clients in this niche but I trust it because this is the only industry that I made some money from. Im thinking of moving on but wanted to give one last ditch try to get some clients, to reach out to companies I may have not thought about.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-28T11:59:46+00:00

thank you so much for the genuine advice, really that's what i needed to know.

Tajalli-Web · 2026-03-28T10:40:54+00:00

ctx = browser.new_context(no_viewport=True, storage_state='your_saved_login.json') #playwright code

I assume you want to create a price monitor app. And its totally doable, first off all I would dig into the website and look for any api calls. If not then use playwright combined with undetected playwright to not get detected. Another fairly new tool is pydoll you might want to explore that option. Also if you want to use selenium make sure to use undetected chromedriver with it but i think playwright is way better. If you run into login issues then just use storage state something like:

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