Day 005

To-Do

• add password on this website
• talk with YYY about the business idea
• research building my own website

Validating my business idea

I talked with YYY, the antibot API provider.

He told me some of his customers just build APIs based on his API to access data from some websites.

So, to him, my business idea sounds good.

Adding a password

It would be nice to have a password on this website.

The thing is that I want to put potentially sensitive information, and be able to share it with a few select people rather than the entire planet / scrappers.

For this, I think I need to host it on a personal server.

Maybe I can make a simple Go/Rust binary that could ask for a password, store it in cookies, and if matching, just serve the files?

Or just use Caddy + Authelia?

Oh lol.

Just use Caddy with Basic Auth and call it a day. Tada!

Yeah I should do that.

I definitely don't want to use Cloudflare anymore.

So:

• move this to my internal git server
• build a gitea action that will build + upload the HTML to my server
• configure my server with Caddy to serve this book
• add a whitelist endpoint for the RSS thing
• make sure to remove sensitive data from the RSS thing (maybe just censor it in the script?)

Building my own website

It's time that I start building my own website.

My home, where I'll put blog posts, and these forms to get in touch with me, where I'll send Google Ads traffic.

I'll do blog posts once in a while, thanks to Beeminder

Homepage

• shows a good picture of me
• explains what I do
• show what I did in the past (past jobs)
• shows a few blog posts
• no stupid JS
• hosted on a CDN so loads fast for everyone around the planet
• loads reasonably fast even on a crappy connection
• can appeal even to non-technical people (I don't want something super austere)
• maybe take inspiration from Plabayo?
  • what's their tech stack?
  • how to do the websites of their founders look like?
• take inspiration from people on the Discord server that I like

Blog

• There should be a page with my list of blog posts
• There should be an RSS feed
• There should be a way to subscribe by email (can be a Discord webhook at first)

Forms

There should be forms that are interwined in the blog post.

Or I can talk about it in the text.

I should make some blog posts that answer common questions: "how to bypass datadome"

At the beginning of the post, there could be something in bold that says:

If you're looking to extract data from a Datadome-protected website and are interested in delegating this work, please reach out to me by filling this form.

I could do a simple analysis of the different sensors, that should take me a day.

Just to have something that looks legit.

I don't actually need to write a solver since I'm going to use an API, but I need to give an appearance of having my own solver.