Martin Cervantes

Martin Cervantes

Building Data Extractio | Indie Hacker

About

Turning 'someday' into 'day one.' In 2026, I finally took the leap from dreaming about apps to shipping them. 🚀 As a data engineer, I spend my days building pipelines and cleaning data. Data Extractio is my side project—proof that even with a full-time job, you can still ship something real. If I can help people skip the PDF copy-paste hell I deal with daily, it's worth every late night. Your feedback is my fuel—let's build something great together! 🤝

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Maker History

  • Data Extractio
    Data ExtractioDrag, drop, extract. PDF tables to Excel in seconds.
    Apr 2026
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    Joined Product HuntNovember 9th, 2025

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Nika

8d ago

Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?

  1. Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)

  2. At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).

  3. In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.

  • First, AI worked for us.

  • Now we are starting to work for AI.

  • And eventually, will AI work (without us)?

I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?

Nika

12d ago

Which business idea do you think was so ridiculous that it feels absurd how much money it made?

I don t mean this in a disrespectful way or anything like that, but throughout my life, I ve come across (and I m sure you have too) several products whose actual usefulness wasn t exactly impressive, but their creators still made a huge amount of money.

For me, for example, it was:

  • Fidget spinners (2017). At the peak, the global market was estimated at hundreds of millions to over $1 billion.

  • Metaverse land (2021) valuation could be for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each, with the overall market reaching hundreds of millions during the peak hype cycle. I bought one too. :D (actually was scammed).

  • Pet Rock (1975) the creator became a millionaire within a few months.

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