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How does WhatRuns.com make money?

4 pointsby n1tryover 4 years ago
I just found https://www.whatruns.com/ and also found a 3-year-old HN discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098028) on this tool. I really like it, but I just can't figure out what the operators of that site get out of it? It's free, there's no premium version and they claim to not collect any data. I'm a bit sceptical.

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Gustomaximusover 4 years ago
I use a similar site <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builtwith.com&#x2F;</a> frequently. They have plans to get additional information.<p>These guys might be trying to scale until they can offer something more like this.<p>Also the obvious thing would be to sell data back to enterprise.
justaguyhereover 4 years ago
I am actually interested in what goes into building such a product. It would take tremendous resources to crawl millions of websites, not to mention fingerprinting tons of libraries and accounting for all the edge cases...
stallerover 4 years ago
I think their TOS is fairly revealing on how they could benefit from it being free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whatruns.com&#x2F;terms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whatruns.com&#x2F;terms</a><p>See Data and Advertising