mrskitch

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by mrskitch 7y ago
Nope, you've got it right. We're increasing prices next, however your sentiment is still true. Once we have the enterprise-flavor out the inverse will be true.
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by mrskitch 7y ago
We hear about puppeteer-cluster _a lot_, and we hear the same thing from folks (that's it's great). browserless.io essentially does "clustering" at an infrastructure level, whereas puppeteer-cluster does it at the applic
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Stripe honestly does a lot of this for you. You can hack all that together with what you've got, the problem is that there's some seasonality to business as well as other market effects that make it tough to determine _why_ someth
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by mrskitch 7y ago
(Author here): lots of comments about why would someone pay for this. I think the answer is simple if you step out of your developer shoes. There's a lot of complexity in managing and even building the thing from the start -- and then
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Sure, but there's a lot of other things you're looking over: - We support selenium with the same version of Chrome as puppeteer's. Everything is versioned together. - Queueing/Concurrency and notifications. Arguably done
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty contrived example on my part. My sentiment here is that there's so many inputs to modeling behavior, and trying to find signal in the noise, that at this scale your time is likely spent better elsewhere. Unless
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Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers(sourcesort.com)
252 points by mrskitch 7y ago|98 comments
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I actually just wrote a bit about this on an interview at brandfetch with regards to browserless.io ( https://blog.brandfetch.io/automating-browsers-with-browserl... , wish I could deeplink the section that's relevant).
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Hey, this is super cool and interesting! Are you using puppeteer to do this? Might be cool to partner on some of it if you’re looking into that (I run browserless.io). Best!
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Yeah we definitely use recaptcha in a GraphQL API for sign-ups to browserless.io. There is a doc on how to do so programmatically via JS in the browser. The docs aren’t great, per se, but it is definitely doable. EDIT: docs are here: https
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Yup, that's a great point. This does help those with familiarity about REST APIs get started, and those wo a lot of puppeteer background. I think the more recent chrome extension examples are pretty interesting, and we're looking
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Show HN: Browserless.io now has a scraping API
14 points by mrskitch 7y ago|4 comments
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by mrskitch 7y ago
This is super cool. I really enjoyed and missed the kimono workflow. Automating something like this with browserless.io would be really fun (I run that project). Extensions is one of the things we’re looking to support. Anyways give me an e
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by mrskitch 7y ago
It's well worth the effort as it it will also pay dividends in the longer term. Speaking wo filler words in normal conversations (especially in the workplace) can help you immensely.
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Not a big one, but one that I found helped a lot: cutting out the "filler" words ("like", "uh", "so"...). These fill words are used in many place to hold onto the listeners attention, but doing it too
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I think a lot of this depends on what your product or audience is. If you're a domain-expert in your niche then lots of folks would rather go with you since they'll have you in their corner versus someone just trying to get it r
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by mrskitch 7y ago
If you can get it working locally with certificates, then there’s definitely a way. Shoot me an email joel at browserless dot io
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I’ve seen this thrown around as well, and would love to hear more. I’m interested in helping the project since it’s about the only one that has stood up to any scrutiny that I’ve seen
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Thanks for that, appreciate the honest feedback. I tried putting off the price change as long as possible, and it was time unfortunately. In any case, the support won’t change anytime soon, and if there’s stuff that can be better I’m defini
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by mrskitch 7y ago
We don't yet do scheduled "jobs", per se, though that's coming soon. You can do pretty much any site out there since it's full-blown Chrome doing the work. As long as you have credentials to log into the portals (an
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I run a headless browser service called browserless.io. Got started due to lack of a comparable service, and all others seemed more geared for testing. It’s been around two years now, and makes more than any prior engineering job I’ve ever
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The making of browserless.io and solving your own problems(blog.brandfetch.io)
2 points by mrskitch 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I agree heavily with this, minus the paid advertising bit. I think it depends on your audience. I've grown browserless.io from 8k MRR last year, to ~20k MRR this year wo doing paid ads. Doubling down on what makes your product what it
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by mrskitch 7y ago
How do we submit topics/projects/interviewees? I run https://github.com/browserless/chrome and would love to chat about the subject!
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Ask HN: ReCAPTCHA Alternatives?
3 points by mrskitch 7y ago|3 comments
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Small things that can kill your indie hacker business(medium.com)
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Into the Storm, an Outage Tale(dev.to)
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by mrskitch 7y ago
This is part of the motivation for doing browserless.io for me (though I’m fascinated, still, by the tech and product). I’ll say that the 0-hour thing is pretty impossible, though you’ll likely not work near 40 hours ever unless you want to
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by mrskitch 7y ago
Hey Derrick! I don't have much to say, except that I really enjoyed your site's design. Good luck! EDIT: Now that I've read through your article: I'm the founder behind browserless.io. Your outline is great, and is the s
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by mrskitch 7y ago
I'm a daily user of Hyper. There has been some gripes of pretty basic things like scrolling and resizing. These aren't showstoppers for me, however I only do pretty basic operations in a terminal (some server maintenance, git comm

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