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yannis on July 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We put $200k into a site that sucks. Please destro...

I would be very interested to hear more about the user Listnerd http://www.listnerd.com/Listnerd#lists and how Listnerd has created 492,988 lists and received 3,072,466 votes!

notduncansmith on July 6, 2014 [–]

Probably related to the "web scrapers" they spent some of that 200k on.

yannis on July 6, 2014 | [–]

Absolutely, and you cannot build a business upon scraping. Maybe for some seeding, but not to this extend.

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