Pay-per-Crawl
make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks
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HN · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 52%) · 0 views
Niche: cryptocurrency trading bots · 89 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2B
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 89 launches in cryptocurrency trading bots →
Could you build this?
Yes This is server/reverse-proxy middleware that inspects crawler user-agents, issues HTTP 402 payment requirements, and validates USDC transactions via public blockchain APIs.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Accidentally walling off human users and legitimate search engines, Bots circumventing paywalls or sharing mirrors, Bot traffic differentiating reliability
Feature requests: Vue3 version, Public leaderboard of installs, Dynamic pricing based on content age or visitor volume, Union of sites model to split proceeds
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1660 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #786 of 1658 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
- Jevcrawl · hn · 2026-10-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- X402vps · hn · 2026-07-24 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- agent-traffic · github · 2026-11-10 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Locus – Payment infrastructure for AI agents · yc · 2025-10-31 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Jiro · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site · hn · 2026-05-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- crawlscan · github · 2026-10-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- OnlyBots.chat · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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