Apify is the only marketplace I've found that works as a true merchant of record for a solo, unincorporated developer — it handles buyer billing, payouts, and support, so I can publish a paid Actor and start earning without building a payments stack myself. The CLI/API deploy flow is fast once you know it, and the Apify Store's internal search actually surfaces a brand-new listing to real buyers on day one, which is rare for any marketplace. Automated QA test-runs published Actors and flags broken ones as "under maintenance" — it caught a failure of mine before users did. Actors expose input/output schemas that AI agents read directly, and the API covers builds, pricing and schedules, so my whole publish pipeline runs from CI.

I really like how easy it is to use, especially with MCP. It's fast, not confusing and actually gives me data I want. For instance, I can now easily scrape local businesses It's really good

Apify makes it much easier to build and operate web scraping workflows without having to manage all the surrounding infrastructure yourself. I particularly like the combination of Actors, scheduling, datasets, proxies and API access. The marketplace of existing Actors is also useful for quickly testing different approaches.