Spent some time building an automation that:
- Takes a search query (like a business niche + location)
- Finds businesses from Google Maps
- Visits their websites
- Extracts publicly available emails
- Cleans duplicates and junk
- Saves everything into a Google Sheet automatically
Basically turning a very manual research task into a repeatable workflow.
I built it mainly to understand how far I could push automation around lead research and data cleanup.
The interesting part wasn’t scraping itself, but making the whole thing reliable and clean enough to actually use.
Curious:
- Do you see more value in something like this for personal outreach or as a service?
- If you’ve built similar workflows, what part broke for you at scale?
Not sharing this as a pitch just documenting what I’m building and learning.
Always interesting to see how others approach the same problem.