“AI can’t build the proxies and CAPTCHA handling; web scraping isn’t hard to build, but to keep it working is brutal.”

Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 855 | The Eight SaaS Moats that Still Work in the Age of AI

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Offer a web-scraping service (Scraping B) that includes proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving and anti-scraping maintenance, sold to multiple customers

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