Scrape Google Maps via Residential Proxies to Build a Lead List
Scrape Google Maps via Residential Proxies to Build a Lead List is a cold outreach tactic for getting your first users: Founders behind directories like Glow Directory and We Raleigh Magazine route Google Maps scraping through residential proxies (IPs from real homes) to pull service-provider data at scale without getting blocked, then use it to build directories or outreach lists for their audience.
It's a strong fit for Dev tools / technical and Marketplaces teams, and works especially well for Directory sites, local marketplaces, and lead-gen plays. As a cold outreach play, plan for medium effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Cold outreach
- Best for: Directory sites, local marketplaces, and lead-gen plays
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does cold outreach work for this?
Residential IPs read as genuine users, so you can collect public listing data at volume without tripping the anti-bot systems that block datacenter IPs.
The exact steps (5)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com