How I Built 7 Apify Actors and Started Earning Passive Income from Web Scraping

A few weeks ago, I had zero Apify actors. Now I have seven, all published on the Apify Store, monetized with pay-per-event pricing, and slowly building a passive income stream.

Here's exactly how I did it — the strategy, the tech stack, the mistakes, and what I'd do differently.

The Strategy: Zero Competition

Most new Apify developers go after hot categories: LinkedIn scrapers, Amazon product extractors, Twitter data. Makes sense — those have demand. But they also have dozens of established actors with hundreds of reviews.