[JOURNEY] Making decent $ with bot creation

[Razorfeast]

Please guide me too about making bots , Which type of bots do you want ?

 

[TraderBane]

Oof, Thats alot to give upfront.

If this is not a BH(Blackhat bot) HMU and i will get it done for you for free

DM me ill pay you if you can do it.

 

[TraderBane]

Hired this guy for a project. He reached out to me after seeing my post on BHW. He quoted me $750, and wouldn't proceed until i gave him half up front.
Even though he had 0 reputation, he was young, like I so I decided to take a chance on him.

So far, is is past the quotation date, and he is not responding.

Will update later.

He ended up refunding me. Said he was 99% done, but he wouldn't just finish and take rest of the money.

Honestly I think he just wasn't able to do the job.

I said just finish, and I'll just pay the $750, and we can go on with our lives, but asking for half again.

Done with this time waster.

 

[WhiteHatCoder]

I am making bots successfully for a living on Upwork as well.

I don't know shit about Python, I am using Node.JS and puppeteer.

But there are some things which need to be considered.

Sites change their structure, sometimes add protection, etc... and script can break
any time without the fault of the developer.

Also when planing some scraping project you should consider some costs which could occur:

$50 - 24/7 VPS in the cloud. Depending on the job, sometimes a $5 droplet would get the job done, sometimes won't.

$100 - Multilogin if the website has fingerprinting protection, then I must use Multilogin browser instead of chromium bundled with the puppeteer.

$50 - High-quality 3G/ 4G/ 5G proxy which is rarely blocked.

$10 - $30 - 2Captcha or Anticaptcha

Depending on the job monthly cost's can be between $5 or even $0 (the script is running on your own PC, no proxy or Multilogin needed), and $200 (Multilogin, Proxy, VPS, Captcha).

 

[WhiteHatCoder]

He ended up refunding me. Said he was 99% done, but he wouldn't just finish and take rest of the money.

Honestly I think he just wasn't able to do the job.

I said just finish, and I'll just pay the $750, and we can go on with our lives, but asking for half again.

Done with this time waster.

I don't understand what's the issue here?

Happened to me too, although I have a bit of knowledge about the matter.
Sometimes the site has a bit too much protection and it's literally impossible to scrape or make an automation script.

Yep, it sucks for both parties, but if I as a developer refund you and tell you I am sorry, then I see no harm done.

Yep, you wasted a little bit of time, but dev wasted a lot of time more trying to make it work.

 

[Veveroyal]

Hired this guy for a project. He reached out to me after seeing my post on BHW. He quoted me $750, and wouldn't proceed until i gave him half up front.
Even though he had 0 reputation, he was young, like I so I decided to take a chance on him.

So far, is is past the quotation date, and he is not responding.

Will update later.

Thanks man he also told me 750$ i sorry for your loss but would not pay this man

 

[Veveroyal]

dont know what happened but im trying to hire him but im being cautious i like the fact that he return u the money

 

[Sammm]

What kinds of jobs do you make Bot for? i love bot

 

[mariaspalucci]

What kinds of jobs do you make Bot for? i love bot

All kinds of, mostly those are automation for websites, discord bots too