Scraping and indexing 1.2B emails for under $200 (jordanpiepkow.com)

Nice writeup.

Wow, the author really calls out his competition! There are also parts 2 and 3 to this article that discusses using Rust and Postgres for their solution.

Took me a while to understand they were scraping email addresses and not actual emails.

Is nobody going to mention how this is a bad thing intended for sending spam? Guess I'll have to be that person then.

I must be missing something because 6.5 days * $21/day = $136.5

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The entire process now took 6.5 days and cost $21/day. Our total cost all said and done was $115!

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