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📣 newman8r

How would you try to validate this data science project?


It's an image crawler + labeler: https://gigaimager.com and I'm working on it with a couple other HNers

So far, we've just been reaching out to individual developers (via reddit and discord), however it's been hard to identify those who have a current need for image datasets.

I've read many times that PPC should be avoided at this stage, but I'm curious if people here have had success with using PPC to validate an idea.

I'd also be interested in hearing how other data science startups validated their concepts if anyone can share.


  👤 theamk Accepted Answer ✓
Your website says:

> Crawls social media and image sites

Most social media and image sites are specifically prohibiting crawling without written permission. How do you handle that? Were you able to acquire written permission from some sites or are you liming yourself to sites which allow crawling (I am very interested in knowing what those sites are)?