Apify Store: 80% of Actors have two or fewer monthly users
61,471 of 82,970 Actors crawled: 80.3% have ≤2 monthly users (typically the QA bot plus the owner). Niches with a free official API are dead (5–60 clones, no buyers). Money sits where data is walled or messy. Only 4.4% of Actors reach 10 users in 30 days; 78.5% of public runs go to 14 creators.
Measured 2026-10-11 via api.apify.com/v2/store. Of 311 narrow search terms, 27% had under 10 organic users across all hits. Almost every failing incumbent with 25+ users sits behind a bot wall (Google, social, TikTok Shop, Trustpilot, Naver Map). Only 9 Actors with 15+ users have gone 9+ months unmodified. Takeaway for builders: replace failing incumbents, pick narrow names, write use-case-first READMEs, and expect a long tail.
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