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A comment on Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your project?.

Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by parrot987 on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:44AM (#35570832)
I built prop_odds [1]. It's an API offering live (and historical) sports betting odds from different sites.

I've been working on it for about 2 months. While not quite at 2k/month yet, it's nearly there and progressing in that direction. Revenue is coming from several customers who are using the data to build Discord bots that alert them (and their own paying users) about good odds, arbitrage opportunities, etc.

[1] https://www.prop-odds.com

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by anddt on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:03PM (#35571066)
I guess you scrape odds from bookmakers' websites (I expecxt a fair bit of headless Selenium). Is there any legal implication of scraping data this way and reselling re-packaged as an API?
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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by parrot987 on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:09PM (#35573478)
Some books we're able to partner with and they give us an API to access the data through. Other we do need to scrape, given that there is no explicit "you can't do that" in their Terms & Conditions. Some books do have such a statement, so we aren't able to offer those.
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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by victorbjorklund on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:08AM (#35580302)
Nice! I been looking for this last week actually. But would help if you list which sites you actually have. I have no idea if you have the sites im looking for and would love to know that before signing up.
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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by parrot987 on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:56PM (#35690178)
Hey, sorry for a late reply! I've just updated our website's Features page [0]. It lists all the sportsbooks and sports we currently support, and what will be added next.

[0] https://www.prop-odds.com/features

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