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Dev tools · May 2, 2023

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Littlecow Get paid for browsing the internet (Open Source)

Hi HN! TL;DR: We are launching a Chrome Extension which sends your html pages to our servers for publicly accessible sites like Amazon or Airbnb. We process them and sell the data through MovingLake. After sales are done, we send a chunk of the revenue back to Littlecow contributors using ETH. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/littlecow/gknglaag... https://github.com/MovingLake/littlecow After working for a year on MovingLake we have bumped many times with customers requesting public data from marketplace sites such as Amazon and…

Littlecow Get paid for browsing the internet (Open Source) launched on May 2, 2023 with 21 votes, #1,556 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

Littlecow is an open-source Chrome extension that collects HTML pages from publicly accessible sites like Amazon and Airbnb, sending them to servers for processing. The extracted data is then sold through MovingLake's data marketplace. Contributors receive a portion of the revenue in ETH cryptocurrency. It is designed for users interested in passively earning money while browsing, and for businesses needing marketplace data for price analysis, competitive research, and investment assessment.

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Hi HN! TL;DR: We are launching a Chrome Extension which sends your html pages to our servers for publicly accessible sites like Amazon or Airbnb. We process them and sell the data through MovingLake. After sales are done, we send a chunk of the revenue back to Littlecow contributors using ETH.…

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