Mindcase is the infrastructure layer for extracting web data in a structured, usable format. Built for developers and AI teams that need reliable web data without managing scraping infrastructure. Access APIs across popular sources, or get anything across the web built as a custom API for your specific use case.
Six hours in, Mindcase is at #3 Product of the Day with 139 points and 26 comments. Plenty of day left but we're grateful to everyone who upvoted or asked something sharp.
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@kanupriya_chhabra1 I can see so many potential use cases for @Mindcase and I love the pay-as-yo-go model rather than an ongoing subscription. Best of luck with the launch.
@codeandsea Thank you Brent. Subscriptions felt wrong for something this bursty. Most teams pull hard for a week, then go quiet, and paying for idle months makes no sense. Prepaid wallet, no seats, no minimums, you pay for rows you actually collect.
@pritesh_kumar3 Thank you. Honestly, voice is earlier for us than lead generation or e commerce work, so I would rather hear what you are trying to do so I can straight up tell you whether we are a fit
A practical question for anyone evaluating a web data vendor, us included: what would you ask to figure out whether it actually works in production, not just in a demo?
For me, there are three:
What happens when a page only partially loads? Do I get a row with quietly empty fields, or a failure I can actually see?
Am I charged for attempts, or only for rows that were successfully collected?
Who notices when a site changes - you or me?
Our answers are: honest errors, rows collected, and us.
In my experience, when a vendor gets vague on any of those three, that’s usually where the pain starts showing up in month two.
Ask us the same three questions. Hold us to the answers.
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The infrastructure piece is what makes this interesting. scraping itself is not hard until you need it to keep working.
@ashir_murtaza1 That sentence is the whole product in one line, thank you.
The first version takes an afternoon and quietly creates a commitment measured in years, and nobody budgets for the second part because the first part felt so easy.
Every team we have spoken to underestimated the same thing, ourselves included, which is why we ended up building this rather than shipping the thing we originally set out to build.
This is such a great tool and i have been looking for my internal project, would love to see how it works in practical. if you can reveal, how do you handle X platform especially? using official API behind the scenes?
Congrats on the launch! This is a super useful tool and can save so much time for everyone, especially data scientists. Really cool that you support Instagram and TikTok, have been looking for something like this. Will give it a try and let you know what I think!
@isabelzav Appreciate that. For data work the annoying part is usually not getting the data, it is getting it into a table you can actually use without cleaning every column first, which is the bit we spend most of our time on. Tell us what you end up doing with it, we like hearing about the actual use cases.
@kanupriya_chhabra1 I can see so many potential use cases for @Mindcase and I love the pay-as-yo-go model rather than an ongoing subscription. Best of luck with the launch.
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@codeandsea Thank you Brent. Subscriptions felt wrong for something this bursty. Most teams pull hard for a week, then go quiet, and paying for idle months makes no sense. Prepaid wallet, no seats, no minimums, you pay for rows you actually collect.
Dograh
looks great . whats a use case you have seen with voice agents ?
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@pritesh_kumar3 Thank you. Honestly, voice is earlier for us than lead generation or e commerce work, so I would rather hear what you are trying to do so I can straight up tell you whether we are a fit
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Sanjay here from the Mindcase team.
A practical question for anyone evaluating a web data vendor, us included: what would you ask to figure out whether it actually works in production, not just in a demo?
For me, there are three:
What happens when a page only partially loads? Do I get a row with quietly empty fields, or a failure I can actually see?
Am I charged for attempts, or only for rows that were successfully collected?
Who notices when a site changes - you or me?
Our answers are: honest errors, rows collected, and us.
In my experience, when a vendor gets vague on any of those three, that’s usually where the pain starts showing up in month two.
Ask us the same three questions. Hold us to the answers.
The infrastructure piece is what makes this interesting. scraping itself is not hard until you need it to keep working.
Mindcase
@ashir_murtaza1 That sentence is the whole product in one line, thank you.
The first version takes an afternoon and quietly creates a commitment measured in years, and nobody budgets for the second part because the first part felt so easy.
Every team we have spoken to underestimated the same thing, ourselves included, which is why we ended up building this rather than shipping the thing we originally set out to build.
Snapventure
Thank you guys. Will give it a shot for scarping TikTok posts of my creators...
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Acti
This is such a great tool and i have been looking for my internal project, would love to see how it works in practical. if you can reveal, how do you handle X platform especially? using official API behind the scenes?
Snipplet
Congrats on the launch! This is a super useful tool and can save so much time for everyone, especially data scientists. Really cool that you support Instagram and TikTok, have been looking for something like this. Will give it a try and let you know what I think!
Mindcase
@isabelzav Appreciate that. For data work the annoying part is usually not getting the data, it is getting it into a table you can actually use without cleaning every column first, which is the bit we spend most of our time on. Tell us what you end up doing with it, we like hearing about the actual use cases.