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My friend Dmytro[0] has been running a screenshot API called ScreenshotOne[1]. He's been building it solo and has reached $20K MRR recently. [0]: https://x.com
by longnguyen 1y ago
My friend Dmytro[0] has been running a screenshot API called ScreenshotOne[1]. He's been building it solo and has reached $20K MRR recently.
[0]: https://x.com/DmytroKrasun https://x.com/DmytroKrasun
[1]: https://screenshotone.com https://screenshotone.com
- geiger01 1y agoI also have a similar api Screenshot api and web scraping api https://capturekit.dev https://capturekit.dev
- thatguyagain 1y agoMRR?
- JCoder58 1y agoMonthly Recurring Revenue
- leoh 1y ago> Turn Websites Into Screenshots with a simple API If anyone wants to build “turn websites into APIs” and do it really well like OP, feel free to hmu. Highly experienced full-stack and rust developer with experience at startups, G and Google X.
- sureglymop 1y agoIt's a good idea. Lately I've been building many android apps in kotlin that all just use web scraping instead of REST APIs. So if you want, "turn your website into an app", that would be interesting.
- yapyap 1y agoWondering what his monthly profit is if that’s not too personal, MRR doesn’t really tell me anything when I don’t know operating costs IMO.
- longnguyen 1y agoHe builds it in public so maybe you can find more details on his X profile. Last time he shared the server cost was about $5k/mo https://x.com/dmytrokrasun/status/1917817087461933560?s=46 https://x.com/dmytrokrasun/status/1917817087461933560?s=46
- financetechbro 1y agoDug around their twitter a bit and they mentioned at one point having $14K MRR and $4K expenses
- krasun 1y agoI spent a lot on servers. Around $5500 all monthly expenses.
- throwaway106382 1y agoholy crap - our company needs basically exactly this for a crazy feature our PM cooked up and we were gonna build something similar ourselves - this will save us so much time
- Lord_Zero 1y agoBrowserless can do this for free: docker run -p 3000:3000 browserless/chrome:latest
- Lord_Zero 1y agoI cant edit the above post but follow that command with a request for a screenshot like so: curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/screenshot \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}' \ --output screenshot.png
- mike-cardwell 1y agoAnd what commands do I run if I want to do 100 screenshots per second?
- porridgeraisin 1y agoNot arguing as a part of this thread but as an aside. Can chrome even take 100 screenshots a second? What would be the max? I think it's interesting.
- Lord_Zero 1y agoYeah that's basically just a 100 FPS video at that point lol
- fastball 1y agoBrowserless is not free for commercial use.
- gervwyk 1y agoThis is awesome. wondering how would a company like this build a user base? Any ideas / speculation would be appreciated!
- n10ty 1y agoFollowing the journey from the beginning
- mnewme 1y agoSuch a great product. Happy customer since years!
- krasun 1y agoThank you!
- satvikpendem 1y agoThanks for BoltAI as well, by the way.
- longnguyen 1y agoThank you
- merek 1y agoDoes he manage his own automated browsers? I suppose this could simply be a wrapper for something like Scrapfly (or Scraping Bee or Zen Rows or many others), with some custom JS injected to remove banners.
- krasun 1y agoI managed my own cluster. I didn’t consider wrapping any service. What needed for scraping is a bit different for what needed to screenshot websites. I need to have full control over my cluster to guarantee the best possible quality.
- osullip 1y agoIt is great! I signed up on my phone and tested in the playground. It will fit perfectly into my workflow. I'm building a hyper-local directory site. Getting good images for businesses is hard, so I'll use this to grab an image of their site as a place holder. I can also add it to my AI workflow where I pass a website to OpenAI Assistant to extract data. OpenAI s not as robust with URLs as it is with images or PDFs. Often it won't visit then URL. I can use this to get an image or pdf, pass it on and ask for the data back. OpenAI is better with files than URLs in my experience. Good job! Well done!
- dpacmittal 1y agoDon't you get problems with cloudflare blocking your browsers?
- krasun 1y agoThanks for the mention, my friend!