Just Launched My Second Lifetime App – Got 10 Paying Users Before Launch!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my experience launching my second lifetime app just a few hours ago. 🎉

A while back, I built ScrapeTheMap for my own project, and today, I quietly launched it on Product Hunt. It only got 3 upvotes in 7 hours (lol), but honestly, I’m surprised it even got that much—because when I launched my first app, I didn’t even get 1 upvote.

But guess what? That first app got acquired after 3 months for $30k, just from me marketing and selling it on my own.

How Scrapethemap Started

I was working on a wedding venue directory for a client and needed to gather every wedding venue in the U.S.—along with important details like:
✅ Name, address, and ratings
✅ Emails & social media links
✅ Reviews & photos from Google Maps

I searched for existing tools, but everything I found was both too expensive and lacked essential features, or the free one’s were limited in their features and usage. So, I decided to build my own tool.

As I worked on it, I realized it wasn’t just useful for directories—it could also be a powerful lead generation tool.and There was also no simple GUI software for Google Maps competitor analysis I could find, so I expanded it even further.

Here is some stats for Data I Collected (for Wedding Venues)

📍 ~13,000 places (venues + related businesses)
📧 7,000-8,000 emails📲 6,000-7,000 Facebook & Instagram links📞 12,000+ phone numbers🗂 Tons of other business details

Here’s the spreadsheet if you want to check it out:  Sheet

What The App Does (Super Simple)

1️⃣   Enter the type of business you want to scrape
2️⃣   Choose the country/state or add custom locations
3️⃣   Click “Start” and let it gather all the data
4️⃣   View results in a clean, sortable table
5️⃣   Export in JSON, CSV, or XLSX

The Wild Part: 10 Paying Users Before Launch

I wasn’t expecting this, but I got 10 paying users from a single post on X (Twitter)!

I had shared a simple tweet about how I built a tool to extract emails from Google Maps for the venue project. Someone with a decent following saw it, commented, and it started gaining attention. Within hours, people started Dming me asking for access. 10 of them bought the lifetime deal on the spot!

Not a huge number, but for an app that wasn’t even officially launched yet, it felt amazing.

Final Thoughts

This whole experience reminded me that distribution is everything—it’s not just about the product, but where and how you talk about it. If I had just waited for Product Hunt to do the work, I’d have been disappointed. But a single organic post in the right place brought me my first 10 customers.

If anyone wants to increase my 3 upvotes here is the product hunt link 😊. Scrapethemap