hasdata.com

The hero stacks three subheads under the headline, each one written by a different prompt and none of them deleted. “From any URL to JSON or Markdown in one API call. No blocks, just data.” “HasData helps product teams automate web data collection at scale. No more building scrapers that break every time a site updates.” “We handle proxies, rendering, and retries. You pay only for successful requests.” That is a developer pitch, a buyer pitch, and a procurement pitch glued together vertically because somebody asked the model for three options and shipped all three.

Then comes the flex of the year: “FEATURED ON Product Hunt — 155.” One hundred and fifty-five upvotes, frozen real founder name[redacted] into the eyebrow above the headline, treated as a piece of social proof. Most months 155 upvotes is the bottom half of the daily leaderboard. The decision to put that number on the page in 24-point type is the most honest thing on the site.

Below the headline, a fake search bar. It says “iPhone 16 reviews” in the placeholder and offers three tabs — Search / Scrape / AI Agent — which are three names for the same product, sold to you as a navigation. The bar is decorative; the arrow button does nothing on the homepage. It is there because every AI product in 2026 is contractually obligated to have a search-bar-shaped hero, regardless of whether it is a search product.

And then the trust strip. Harvard University. Copyleaks. Los Angeles Times. SurveySparrow. Stanford University. Salesforce. Samsung. No quote, no link, no case study, no date — just seven famous wordmarks lined up under a hero that says “No blocks, just data.” Either four of the largest institutions on earth are paying customers of a 155-upvote Product Hunt scraper and have given written permission to be displayed as such, or this is the same fake-authority-logos move every other page in this archive runs. The reader is invited to guess which.