jackienotchan

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by jackienotchan 2mo ago
How did you find your differentiation in a highly commoditized space? It's probably one of the most crowded spaces. Even within YC, there are many competitors that do pretty much the same thing: - Firecrawl - BrowserUse - Browserbase -
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by jackienotchan 3mo ago
I'm always genuinely curious on how startups navigate the founder maze as it helps to break the myth of an overnight success story. Based on your YC page, you went through a couple of pivots over the last years: - 4 years ago: Intuned
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by jackienotchan 8mo ago
Why is this not a Launch YC (or at least mention it?) since you seem to be part of the current batch? The record/replay is definitely and interesting direction. The browser automation space is getting super crowded though (even within
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by jackienotchan 9mo ago
Congrats! Could this also be used to generate e2e test automations? For scraping, how do you handle Cloudflare and Captchas? Do you respect robots.txt instructions of websites?
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by jackienotchan 1y ago
AI crawlers have lead to a big surge in scraping activity, and most of these bots don't respect any scraping best practices that the industry has developed over the past two decades (robots.txt, rate limits, user agents, etc.). This co
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by jackienotchan 1y ago
The first two quotes are from founders of: - BrowserUse - Founded 2024 - Greptile - Founded 2023 The third quote is from a VC who has never founded a startup himself and has a clear interest in pushing founders to trade work-life balance fo
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by jackienotchan 1y ago
I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats! YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same batch: - Pulse (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.c
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by jackienotchan 1y ago
AI crawlers have lead to a big surge in scraping/crawling activity on the web, and many don't use proper user agents and don't stick to any scraping best practices that the industry has developed over the past two decades (ro
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
AI agents have lead to a big surge in scraping/crawling activity on the web, and many don't use proper user agents and don't stick to any scraping best practices that the industry has developed over the past two decades (robo
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YC funds AI-powered Reddit marketing bot(ycombinator.com)
2 points by jackienotchan 2y ago|5 comments
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Would you mind sharing the story behind your pivot from on-demand photorealistic vision datasets[0] to browser automation? [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lbx-simplex-on-demand-p...
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
I'm noticing a big increase in crawling activity on the sites I manage, likely from bots collecting data for LLMs. Most of them don't use proper user agents and of course don't stick to any scraping best practices that the in
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PearAI (YC F24) forks OS repo and rebrands it with mass-replacing references(twitter.com)
41 points by jackienotchan 2y ago|3 comments
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
You have LinkedIn and Twitter examples, where you're very likely violating their TOS as they prohibit any scraping. I also assume you don't check the robots.txt of websites? I'm all for automating tedious work, but with all t
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
This was the top comment for quite a while but suddenly dropped to the bottom. Was it automatically downranked for mentioning an OS alternative? How many upvotes does your comment have?
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Affected companies are becoming increasingly frustrated with the army of AI crawlers out there as they won't stick to any scraping best practices (respect robot.txt, use public APIs, no peak load). It's not necessarily about copy
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Ask HN: How to write effective cold emails?
1 points by jackienotchan 2y ago|2 comments
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Random anecdote: I've created a Suno song as an anniversary gift for my girlfriend. She was absolutely mindblown by it as it's an earworm song with many of our memories. Always good to be aware of our small tech bubble here and th
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Everybody trashed Google yesterday, but I actually think they are catching up in the AI race. They will now start fully leveraging their distribution advantage across products and platforms.
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Looking at OpenAdapt, I'm wondering why they didn't integrate Tarsier into AgentGPT, which is their flagship github repo but doesn't seem to be under active development anymore.
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Did you delete it or the mods?
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by jackienotchan 2y ago
Why was the Show HN text removed? Too much self promotion? You're a YC company, so I'm surprised the mods would do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru... > Hey HN! I built