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Interesting, thanks

Maker here.

You're right, it's an interpreter and that would be the 100% accurate term.

For online coding environments, the two are often used interchangeably. More people search for 'compiler', so I'm using that widely on my site.

Maker here. Thank you!

I looked briefly at Marimo when building - awesome project. I wasn't sure about building on Pydodide as it's obviously not full Python compatibility. But seeing someone else building a popular project on it helped me make that decision!

Maker here! Runs in an isolated Web Worker using Web Assembly, via Pyodide. Everything runs locally in your browser - no file system or other access. Scheduled run (paid plan) run on AWS lambda.

So, yes, sadly, network requests only work with domains with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. I'm looking at adding a backend CORS proxy to fix this.

We also have a Chrome extension with no CORS limitation. The extension lets you right-click Python code snippets on basically any site (Claude, ChatGPT, Deepseek etc.) to run it instantly.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/python-code-runner/...

Yes! To use pylan:

- Click on the Clip name (the default one is 'Use Python Libraries') - Click 'Manage packages' - Enter 'pylan-lib' and Click 'Add' - Click 'Run'

The package will be installed, and the code will run!

The list of libraries is only a small subset of the compatible libraries - I should make that way clearer.

Thanks! I'm afraid I'm focused on Python for now - I want to do one thing really well rather than several things averagely

Hey HN!

Founder here. Happy to answer any questions!

I wrote this to look back on in the future and hopefully to help other indie-founders who are starting out.

If you want even more info about Data Fetcher, check out this interview on HN from a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32506627

Probably but I’ll be able to hire someone to help with it soon!

All billing stuff is handled through datafetcher.com.

Independent of Airtable so if they cancelled their Airtable they can still cancel on datafetcher.com.

Thanks! Super interesting example. Do you prefer the day to day challenges now or when you were at $40k MRR?

I basically look at entrepreneurship as trying to create my perfect job: make $200-500k/ year, work on what I want with smart people, don't have a boss etc. So a lifestyle business. But maybe I'll get bored and want to take a bigger swing, who knows.

No! https://marker.medium.com/how-my-show-hn-project-got-acquire...

Interesting, thanks!

Probably not going to charge more any time soon. I'm in the prosumer space, not B2B, and people are more price sensitive than you might expect.

Raising prices from $18/mo to $24 has massively reduced support, but we get a fair few people cancelling due to price, so any higher would probably be pushing it.

Airtable don't have billing for the marketplace so I handle everything, have a direct relationship with customers and pay no cut to Airtable.

People finding bugs - it's a super flexible tool so lots of edge case bugs. Helping people set up their requests (e.g. no-coders who don't totally understand APIs or DF). Then boring stuff like billing queries/refunds etc.

I probably work 30-40 hours a week total.

Founder here. I use this site to find new platforms/ trends! https://explodingtopics.com/ then build them into tools using my framework: https://twitter.com/clokehead/status/1340949414081392640?s=2...

Support is roughly 10 hours per week and we're now up to 270 customers. The rest of the time is spent on product, reviewing marketing content and occasionaly sales. I've been full-time since $5k MRR as trying to juggle all this with a full time job was miserably + slowed down growth.

$80-90k isn't actually that much less than a developer salary (in U.K., not U.S.), but it's an interesting question what I'd do if it didn't grow any more.

I'd probably put it into maintenance-mode, and start another micro-saas, as I love the freedom of working where/when/how I want. I'm hopeful of hitting $150k ARR by end of year though, and $250k next year.

I coded it manually as the business logic is so Data Fetcher specific I don't think a library would help much. This blog post does an amazing job of explaining the approach you need: https://blog.checklyhq.com/building-a-multi-tenant-saas-data...

Founder here - that's a great analysis.

The way I manufactured right place/ right time was using this framework: https://twitter.com/clokehead/status/1340949414081392640?s=2...

Thank you! Fixed

(Founder here)

That's definitely the biggest risk to the business (other than competition).

Airtable seem committed to being a platform that third-party developers can build businesses on, in the same way Shopify are. So I think (hope) they'd acquire me, rather than just cloning it, to maintain their reputation as a platform. But they definitely could do this and it's pretty scary!

For now, my strategy is to try and grow to $350k+ ARR and diversify the profits into index funds etc. I also have a couple of other micro-saas ideas that aren't platform-dependent that I'll launch in the next couple of years.

Founder here - one of the reasons I didn't do the IPO idea was I found this company doing a great job with their newsletter: https://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Center/News

Founder here. Airtable have a pretty generous free plan. In January, they changed it to let you install extensions (like Data Fetcher) on the free plan.

It does get more expension if you have lots of collaborators ($24/ month/ user), but if you can use a tool like Softr to build user-facing portals without adding all your end-users as Airtable collaborators.

Founder here! Happy to answer any questions people have. I'm also building in public here: https://twitter.com/clokehead

A couple of people have been confused by 'on Airtable' in the title. Data Fetcher (https://datafetcher.com/) is an extension built (with code) on Airtable's marketplace in the same way you'd build on the App/ Play Store. It's not a no-code app built using Airtable.

MRR is up to $9400 since I did this interview, and should hit $10k in the next month.

Founder here!

Content marketing - look at common customer use cases and turn them into blog posts and YouTube videos.

Check out our blog, https://datafetcher.com/blog, and YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnED2FBe_jzntrCiB759y9w/vid..., for examples!

I've now hired 2 freelancers to produce these, so I can focus on product/ support.

All 6 of my apps & dashboard are down too.

Awesome, thanks!

TLDR: launching a weekly newsletter to track upcoming IPOS: https://www.iposweekly.com/

Tracking upcoming IPOs seems like a genuine pain point for retail investors. People periodically check IPO calendars then forget about them.

e.g. these Reddit posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/999irr/tracking_upc... https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityAnalysis/comments/76zj0v/al...

So I'm launching a simple weekly newsletter of upcoming IPOs, filings and companies that just went public.

"Doesn't this exist already?" IPOScoop is often recommended as a source for this data but has no obvious newsletter. Fidelity has IPO alerts but you have to create a Fidelity account.

Finance is not an industry I know at all so I might be way off with this idea. Using https://carrd.co/, https://emailoctopus.com/ and $100 in ads I can try and validate it.

If it does work the nature of the content lends itself really well to automation/ outsourcing.

Here's the link again: https://www.iposweekly.com/

Ah I see what you mean, thanks!

Hi J,

Thanks for all the feedback!

Not sure I totally get your point about my reason for selling. Are you saying I should or shouldn't say my heart's not in it? That's the genuine reason and I've always built in the open and been transparent about my business/ goals.

My primary motivation now is starting another SaaS project like this one, but in a niche that I'm more interested in. At the moment I think that's B2B lead gen or SEO.

Obviously very different beasts to this - mature industries etc but things I've developed an interest in by doing this more opportunist project. So I'm 100% not looking for an acquire-hire!

Happy to be viewed as a side hustle. That's basically what it has been until very recently.

Yes, those are the main people I'm speaking to at the moment. Also Indie Hacker types.

Agree, if it wasn't for the fact it relies on scraping this thing would be worth 5 x much as I've suggested in the doc. I'd say this is very hard to value, even looking at historical multiples on Flippa etc.

Please don't mention MBAs!

Yes

Backend: TypeScript, Node, Postgres, Apollo Server, TypeORM

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Apollo Client, Razzle.js/ After.js (just for SSR)

Deployed on Heroku

More details in the link