Blog
Building ScopeScrape in public. Design decisions, technical deep-dives, and lessons learned.
GummySearch Lost Its Reddit License. Here's What Happened Next.
GummySearch shut down after Reddit revoked API access. The alternatives are expensive and closed. So I started building an open-source replacement.
Reddit API Reference for Developers: Fields, Limits, and Gotchas (2026)
Every field the Reddit API returns, the rate limits that apply, PRAW vs async PRAW vs raw HTTP, and the errors that cost me hours.
Designing a Pain Point Scoring Framework from Scratch
How I weight frequency, intensity, specificity, and recency into a single actionable score.
Why ScopeScrape Scrapes Reddit Without the API
Reddit's pre-approval process takes weeks. The public JSON endpoints return the same data for read-only use. Here is the tradeoff analysis.
How to Write Problem Statements That Actually Work With ScopeScrape
The quality of what you get out depends on how well you define what you are looking for. Good vs bad inputs, blindspots to watch, and how to iterate.
I Ran ScopeScrape for the First Time. Here Is What 119 Scored Posts From r/saas Told Me.
160 posts fetched, 119 scored. The frequency scorer broke, the entity extractor was noisy, and the top results were genuinely useful. Full data breakdown.
From CLI to Web UI: How ScopeScrape Got a Local Webapp
FastAPI backend wrapping the CLI pipeline, single HTML frontend, async scanning with real-time progress, visual results explorer with score tiers and dimension breakdowns.
How ScopeScrape Scrapes Twitter Without Paying $100/month for the API
Twitter's API costs $100+/month. Nitter is an open-source Twitter frontend that returns clean HTML with no auth. How it works, rate limits, reliability, and the tradeoffs.
Mining GitHub Issues and Discussions for Product Pain Points
GitHub's public REST API lets you search issues and discussions. 60 req/hr unauthenticated, 5000 with a token. How to extract pain signals from developer conversations.
Stack Overflow as a Pain Point Gold Mine (and the API That Makes It Easy)
Stack Exchange API has zero auth requirement and perfect structure for pain mining. Questions are structured problem reports. Answers show solution landscapes. View counts reveal impact.
What I Learned Building Adapters for Product Hunt and Indie Hackers
Product Hunt has a public GraphQL API, no auth required. Indie Hackers uses Algolia for search. Why founder pain points are different from user pain points, and how to find them.