The First 100: Who Actually Uses Korean Data APIs
I hit 100 users today across 13 Korean scrapers on Apify. Not 100 signups. Not 100 trial runs. 100 distinct accounts that ran at least one job against Korean data — Naver, Melon, Musinsa, Daangn, B...

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I hit 100 users today across 13 Korean scrapers on Apify. Not 100 signups. Not 100 trial runs. 100 distinct accounts that ran at least one job against Korean data — Naver, Melon, Musinsa, Daangn, Bunjang, and more. I've been tracking these numbers daily since the scrapers went live in mid-March. Here's what the distribution actually looks like — and what it tells me about who's using Korean data APIs. The Numbers Actor Total Users Active (7d) Total Runs naver-place-search 23 3 1,249 naver-place-reviews 15 4 581 naver-blog-search 14 2 738 naver-news-scraper 7 1 10,942 musinsa-ranking-scraper 7 2 63 daangn-market-scraper 6 0 51 naver-kin-scraper 6 1 100 naver-webtoon-scraper 6 0 45 bunjang-market-scraper 5 0 42 naver-blog-reviews 3 0 606 yes24-book-scraper 3 0 39 naver-place-photos 2 0 37 melon-chart-scraper 2 1 46 Total: 100 users, 14,541 runs Three Things the Distribution Reveals 1. Naver Place owns 40% of my users naver-place-search (23), naver-place-reviews (15), and naver-place-phot