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The recurring revenue model after the challenge ends is the real hook here. One-time prizes are nice but building something that generates passive income long-term changes the calculation completely.
That pricing feedback from Fabricio caught my attention though. High per-run costs can kill margin fast on volume use cases.
What's your typical cost per actor execution been running?
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Apify $5M challenge is also on Peerlist: https://peerlist.io/fabianmume/project/the-apify-1m-challenge
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This is an incredible opportunity for developers! I love that it not only offers upfront rewards but also encourages building tools that generate ongoing value. The combination of community recognition, recurring revenue, and the chance for grand prizes creates a powerful incentive to innovate. Definitely makes me excited to see what creative Actors people will build!
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Sounds like an amazing opportunity! I’ve been meaning to explore Apify for a while — this challenge might be the perfect motivation to start building and testing some automation ideas. 🚀
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We had 9 actors connected to our backend 3 months ago. We are getting rid of them and there are only 3 now in our system, there will be none by the end of the year.
Sadly, your business model made our service unprofitable. For every 300 or 400 USD customer we were paying around 250 USD to Apify.
We changed to other tools and while it took hard work, now our cost is around 25~30 USD per client.
Fix that and you have a nice service. Good luck to the developers!
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Hey Fabricio, Myrsini from Apify here. Appreciate the feedback! Happy to discuss further to work out a solution or potential improvements.
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Your pricing model is wrong. Take any actor that charges per use, add the fixed amount, and add the Apify fee. Now make it run 15 or 20 times a day, and you'll have a hefty fee at the end of the month. We've already made the decision. You can take my comment as feedback for your current and future customers.
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Would be happy to learn more about that. I'm sure the "costs of hard work" weren't zero, and I'm sure we could find a price where the cost of Apify < costs of new tools + cost of hard work.
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Of course, the team's time is expensive for us, but we will amortize it over the next few months, and as we add more customers, it will be paid for itself pretty quickly.
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That’s an awesome initiative, team Apify love how you’re empowering independent developers with real rewards!
If you ever plan to amplify this challenge or future launches across major media outlets(like USA Today, Digital trends, Yahoo, or Business Insider), I’d be happy to help get it the visibility it deserves through targeted PR coverage.
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Wow I have some ideas in the pipeline for Actors so this is timely :)
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wohoooo, let's go!
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That's a great challenge and a good opportunity for me to finally stop procrastinating building actors for the Apify marketplace.
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