2 years ago, a major marketplace told me:
"Vigie is interesting, but we will build it internally."
They burned a shitload of money chasing internal credit.
But they could not see the sellers.
They could not see the breakout products.
Competitors did.
GMV leaked fast.
2 years later, they became a customer.
But in a far tougher market.
The reality
This is not "yet another scraper".
And the cost of shaky internal tooling has never been higher.
We were not building a tool.
We were building the operating system for marketplace growth.