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Hello,

The business concept in broad terms was to help customer find the cheapest or other best offer from comparable offers by automatically going to those websites, filling out complex forms and then presenting back to the customer. Money is made by offering complementary products and advertisements. In this specific case, the idea was to aggregate home insurance and car insurance data in Sweden, but it is not . Maybe not very web 2.0, but if one can be at least 1/2 as useful as the aforementioned skyscanner...

I built the back-end that powers the collection and can be queried with JSON from front-end easily and now I wonder what I should do with it? My instinct hunch would be to just sell it at bargain prices (any buyers?) to compensate time investment (it has docs, quality code, etc).

But maybe the collective minds of linkedin have better suggestions? Some tech entrepreneurs willing to pick it up from here? Any ideas - where to seek more help appreciated.

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Three potential business models come to mind for you (in increasing order of effort required / potential reward).

  1. You could sell the script (either on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis).

  2. You could package it up and offer it as a "software as a service" where customers could pay a monthly fee to use your scraping / data input technology

  3. If you think it's really a differentiated service, you could run your own lead generation site. However, these markets are very competitive so you'd have to be pretty sure you were able to extract more revenue per visitor than your competitors b/c of your technology.

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