TheYahiaBakour

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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
oh thanks for this :) let me know how everything goes with the integration over email, always down to help
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
firecrawl doesn't have a search index, we're probably closest to them at the moment tavily, exa, parallel, you = search index for ai cloudflare's browser offerings are not the best in terms of quality, at-least from our testi
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
maybe i'm just telling the truth: https://www.context.dev/customers
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
fixed & deployed, thanks for flagging.
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
thank you!
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
is that a problem/annoying? i thought it would be fine
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
i too would have had this view before i started the business, however it's actually really hard, additionally teams migrate to us from in-house solutions all the time
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
i think about this too, perhaps you're right, if (big if) the web was designed with the end goal in place, however it was a series of ~interesting~ mistakes & decisions that led to where we are today the same could be said of most
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
i've yapped quite a bit in this thread already about my journey, but happy to provide any (hopefully useful) insights, you can DM me on X, mention this comment please: https://x.com/mynameisyahia
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
the reality is that the space is huge and expanding many that you mentioned serve different needs and it tends to not be zero sum to everyone's surprise (including mine at first) e.g. browseruse, browserbase = browser automation exa, p
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
i see you too are an experienced dev
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
touché
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
"the first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." now for my actual thoughts, if that works for anyone in production r
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
ignoring the obvious ragebait, the soc 2 "thing" is the truth, we are type 1 certified, and are in observation for type 2
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
it counts as "reverse engineering" a website which is much worse for the website owner imo, then again im biased
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
- worst is "extension" based traffic routing where your provider is essentially tricking end users into routing traffic through - opt-in p2p networks can be described as botnets sometimes, i try to avoid these but not as bad - goo
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
if it needs auth, we don't do any type of logins at the moment, still figuring out how to do it without attracting the wrong type of customer (someone doing shady stuff) popups / cookie banners are quite easy to get through with e
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
thank you, im not sure who this is though, but please email me if i can help in any way
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
ty, it's here! https://docs.context.dev/install-mcp
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
100% yes, i found out about that company recently too, it's a tempting idea for sure
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
you just found my end goal :)
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
Fascinating, this is definitely a path i was thinking about for a bit but decided against doing it primarily since it changes the business fundamentally
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
hey, happy you like it, to be honest we had no real secret, it takes a ton of time and effort to earn developer trust i got my first customer after 1 month, and then just worked like hell to make him happy even though it was a very large co
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
hi, no worries at all, it came off perfectly fine yes, we use residential proxies + all requests go are js-rendered, we maintain a caching layer which is 95%+ opted into by customers it's all included in the credit price, great value c
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
will let my designer know, it's a dev-focused product, and we're all so finely tuned to avoid slop, so design & feel was really important
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
happy you noticed that, i put quite a bit of love into the ui, i've found engineers care alot about polish & feel of the webapps they use, even for an api product i'm an engineer by trade, and always hated things like forcing
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
im not sure if grok is on here, i think that's an X thing but if you were to ask me, we're more fully featured than cloudflare, and anecdotally a ton more reliable in terms of error rates. back when it was brand.dev, i actually tr
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
thank you, i try to ship updates often: https://docs.context.dev/changelog
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
im not sure the models do this, rather the tooling around them, however web search/extraction by the model providers is ridiculously expensive and quite slow, so going into production it makes sense to use a provider (like us)
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by TheYahiaBakour 3mo ago
please do, and if you see anything off let me know, we've yet to lose a single "bakeoff", i normally ask customers to just have cc/codex run it so its somewhat unbiased on the 2nd point, most industries are not zero-sum,

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