HuluFlow

Hey IH 👋

Today I’m launching HuluFlow — a small SaaS for turning public web pages into reusable scrape workflows (not one-off scripts).

The problem I kept hitting

A lot of “scraping” in my world wasn’t research-grade crawling. It was this loop:

1. Open a public list page

2. Decide columns (title, price, url, …)

3. Dump into a spreadsheet

4. Come back later when marketing wants it on a schedule — or when the markup changed

I kept writing throwaway scripts, losing them, and rewriting the same glue. The painful part wasn’t parsing HTML once — it was making the job an asset: rerunnable, shareable, meterable, exportable.

What I shipped

HuluFlow = Chrome extension + web console, same account.

Chrome extension (Side Panel)

On the page you’re viewing: describe the columns → analyze → preview sample rows → save a workflow. Optionally run from the extension (background tabs).

Web console

A simple graph of nodes:

- url_gen — list or range of URLs

- scrape — list or detail mode

- store — upsert into a Dataset

- notify — email on new rows or field changes (e.g. price moves)

Plus schedules, CSV/JSON export, and a REST API with bearer keys.

Billing

Usage is credits: ~1 credit per webpage request by scrape nodes.

Free: 20 credits/month, no card.

Paid tiers when volume grows.

Hard boundaries (on purpose)

• Public pages only — no login walls / session hijacking / “bypass anti-bot” claims

• Not trying to replace a custom Playwright farm for deep edge cases

• Saving a workflow doesn’t spend credits; fetching pages does

I’d rather be clear and lose the wrong users than grow on the wrong promise.

Why free is tiny (20/mo)

I’m experimenting in public on this: a small free tier is honest about cost and limits abuse, but it might also kill the “aha” before people save + re-run + export.

Curious what you’d do — keep 20 permanent, or keep 20 + a first-week boost for new accounts?

Dual CTA problem

I have two doors: Add to Chrome vs Start free on the web. Traffic will be EN + ZH.

If you’ve shipped extension + web SaaS: which CTA won on the homepage for you?

Links

• Site: https://huluflow.com/?utm_source=indiehackers&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=launch

• Register: https://huluflow.com/register?utm_source=indiehackers&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=launch

• Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/huluflow/hhmjcfekfhegocnofcpmemicphjaijbn

• Harmless demo page I use in walkthroughs: https://books.toscrape.com/ (try title, price, url)

• Short blog intro: https://huluflow.com/blog/what-is-huluflow?utm_source=indiehackers&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=launch

What feedback would help most

1. Is “workflow + credits” clearer than calling it a “scraper”?

2. Does the 20-credit free tier feel fair or hostile?

3. Anything on the landing page that screams trust/compliance risk?

4. If you try the extension: where do you bounce in the first 5 minutes?

I’m solo / bootstrapping — roast the packaging, the funnel, or the naming. I’ll hang out in the comments and share what breaks as real users come in.

Thanks for reading — and if you build something in the same messy “ops needs a table from a public page” niche, I’d love to compare notes.