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I built a db with over 10k of online tools, how can I pivot now?


I built a db with over 10k of online tools, how can I pivot now?


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Hello! I wanted to ask you for advice. Few weeks ago I had a "brilliant" idea that I will build a database of online tools, saas'es, etc. After some research (and questions on HN - Thank you! <3) I thought that maybe I could build mini (veryyyy mini) crunchbase.

After this 3 - 4 weeks I built this - https://www.ravenregistry.com/ (it's free, no ads, no paywall)

The problem is, actually useful information are not freely available. So I was able to get "regular" things like url, title, description, contact/pricing url, socials.

And I think that it's not enough for the "power users", so people who would like to use my website for a market research or competition research won't find it useful (?)

So I was wondering if maybe I should try to pay for services like SimilarWeb and try to enrich my data with their data?

Or maybe I should pivot and try to target regular users who are looking for online tools? But then what, my competitor is google?

I also thought that I could make it for regular users and at the same time downscale significantly and instead of going into huge number of results - start filling them manually with way more information?

I would be very grateful for any feedback and ideas! Thank you!