I have an idea for a startup that I believe would have a net positive impact on society, in particular, for a vulnerable group of individuals. However, enabling this would require scraping large amounts of metadata from a large social media company.
Nowadays, there are many high-quality scraping services that can overcome a lot of the common scraping prevention methods and I believe it would be technically feasible.
Assuming that it is feasible, is it a good idea to embark on this journey and build an MVP if there is a large risk that this would be shut down at a later point in time or that this would be deemed as uninvestable and would never surpass the MVP stage?
There are past examples of startups that have succeeded by building their businesses on questionable legality (Ex. Airbnb, Uber, Lime, etc..), but I am not sure if considering these examples would just be a survival bias.
Many saw the famous ruling of LinkedIn vs. HiQ as a Golden Ticket for web scraping (HiQ won the case), however, my idea would require logging into the site and likely a breach of Terms of Service.
What are your thoughts? Poll and comment below.
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the famous ruling has been remanded back to the lower court and is AFAIK undecided again. i wouldn’t let that stop you