welanes

7 ms·

1.
by welanes 24d ago
I've been running https://simplescraper.io for a number of years, so not exactly a side project but it started out that way. If time allowed, I'd focus on the AI photo and video generation. Have seen friends hit $500 r
2.
by welanes 2mo ago
I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models. [1] https://humm.so/
3.
Show HN: Humm – free, private realtime speech-to-text(humm.so)
2 points by welanes 2mo ago|1 comments
4.
by welanes 6mo ago
Data extraction: https://simplescraper.io A project that I launched on HN that became a business. Simplescraper rode the no-code wave of a few years back ( 'instant structured data without parsing html' ). Now working
5.
How to X402(simplescraper.io)
1 points by welanes 7mo ago|0 comments
6.
by welanes 7mo ago
Whoops, developer mode needs to be toggled on. Just updated the instructions
7.
by welanes 7mo ago
Made a quick tool so you can check if your extensions are on the list: https://extensioncheck.val.run 1. Go to chrome://extensions and toggle Developer mode on (so IDs are visible) 2. Select all text on the page with y
8.
by welanes 1y ago
This guide may be useful for anyone interested in building their own spec-compliant MCP server: https://simplescraper.io/blog/how-to-mcp . Albeit, it's a few weeks old so already in need of an update!
9.
by welanes 1y ago
> I'm always a bit wary of approaching these ideas though because I feel like nobody would ever pay for small web stuff? Build them and find out! There's almost always room for something better, and if what you build is that, t
10.
by welanes 1y ago
1. Clicking the box programmatically – possible but inconsistent 2. Outsourcing the task to one of the many CAPTCHA-solving services (2Captcha etc) – better 3. Using a pool of reliable IP addresses so you don't encounter checkboxes or
11.
by welanes 2y ago
Making my data extraction Saas ( https://simplescraper.io ) more LLM friendly. Markdown extraction, improved Google search, workflows - search for this terms, visit the first N links, summarize etc. Big demand for (or rather, expe
12.
by welanes 2y ago
Things are much easier for one-person startups these days—it's a gift. I remember building a todo app as my first SaaS project, and choosing something called Stormpath for authentication. It subsequently shut down, forcing me to do a l
13.
by welanes 3y ago
Sounds like you've learned a lot of what not to do, which will be invaluable when you try again. It feels like the only areas where a solo builder can gain traction are in B2B products, or B2C if you're riding the latest trend (cr
14.
Show HN: Simplescraper AI – Pull insights from any website using AI(simplescraper.io)
1 points by welanes 3y ago|0 comments
15.
by welanes 3y ago
> perhaps you can simply ask the API to create Python or JS code that is deterministic, instead. Had a conversation last week with a customer that did exactly that - spent 15 minutes in ChatGPT generating working Scrapy code. Neat to s
16.
by welanes 4y ago
I'm making https://simplescraper.io - a no-code web scraping tool. Saved up, quit my job and went all in...on a todo app. Needless to say that idea didn't go far, but it taught me how to code. When I was close to broke
17.
Creating a Book Summary AI for Amazon Using Airtable, OpenAI and Simplescraper(simplescraper.io)
4 points by welanes 4y ago|0 comments
18.
by welanes 4y ago
Nice job. No RSS though as far as I can tell. For something slightly less minimal but very nice to use, I stumbled across this the other day: https://blogstatic.io/ Feels likes - after being crowded out by FB and Twitter (a
19.
by welanes 5y ago
Congrats on the persistence! The lesson: things take time. Took me about a decade. I also tried a note-taking app (every new developer's rite of passage it seems), an event guide, digital magazine, and an assortment of other projects w
20.
by welanes 5y ago
Another great resource is incolumitas.com. A list of detection methods are here: https://bot.incolumitas.com/ I run a no-code web scraper ( https://simplescraper.io ) and we test against these. Having scraped mill
21.
by welanes 5y ago
I'm building https://simplescraper.io - data extraction in the spirit of the late Kimono Labs. Front: Vue.js, Tailwind Back: Node.js, Firebase (Database, Hosting, Functions, Scheduler) Management: Airtable, Github, a 30,000
22.
by welanes 6y ago
I'm making a living with just over 100 true fans building Simplescraper: https://simplescraper.io/ . An extra zero would be nice but I'm very grateful for 100. In addition to the article above, these writings provi
23.
by welanes 6y ago
The beautiful thing about web scraping is that it automates so much tedious work that the benefits in saved time offsets the brittleness inherent in scraping data. And with Puppeteer (also Playwright) it's never been easier. Recaptch
24.
by welanes 6y ago
Case in point! Thanks, I'll dust off the project folder and get on this soon.
25.
by welanes 6y ago
I started building Lanes ( https://lanes.io ) in 2016 as a way to learn how to code. Don't talk about it because it's way overdue for an update. But it plods along, earning enough to cover the bills for my second project
26.
by welanes 6y ago
Neat write-up, and thanks for putting me on to jsonld.js - looks useful. I'm building https://simplescraper.io and we're trying to create heuristics to update CSS selectors whenever a website changes. People become unh
27.
by welanes 6y ago
Hey, the best place to keep updated is https://twitter.com/simplescraper If you're not on Twitter, we hope to submit the integration by the end of this month so check us out then.
28.
by welanes 6y ago
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For building websites, Webflow is powerful (and allows for fine-tuning). Among utilities, Parabola (a kind of no-code extract, transform, load tool) is very neat. For getting data/cr
29.
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in five charts(simplescraper.io)
2 points by welanes 6y ago|0 comments
30.
by welanes 7y ago
I'm in the middle of pushing out v1.0 of Simple scraper[0] this week which will recreate some of the functionality. Having a lot of fun building the product but with so many of these types of companies shutting down it has me wondering

More ›