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Sounds like this does a lot more than simply take a screenshot. It mentions removing cookie banners, ads, etc. which is an always moving target. If you have one, very narrow specific use case, then maybe that’s not so bad. But sounds like a huge pain if you need that for any arbitrary site.
Couldn't this be done with a headless Firefox and adblocker extensions?
I work for a tiny company. Most of the revenue is from paid API access. I don't think I'm authorized to share any of the specifics, so will keep it generic. The API is a world-class machine learning model for a specific scenario. There's a public price list, and various customers manage to negotiate various discounts. Our biggest challenge is that Google Lens (while much worse than us for our specific domain) is beco…
> It turns out the people creating the front end pocket most of the money. Would you be able to elaborate on this? I don't fully understand this statement.
> Would you be able to elaborate on this? I don't fully understand this statement.
the economic player with direct contact to the customer "owns" the customer and has a lot of power in negotiation with suppliers. the customer-facing players have the most information about their customers, and can offer adjacent products (want fries with that?)
Uber and Lyft make big money, not their drivers. Amazon and Ebay make big money, not their sellers. McDonalds makes more money than their food suppliers, and franchisees.
The exception is with something like intellectual property, let's use movies as an example. The owners of the content want to sell it widely and will do a variety of distribution deals for different distribution channels. However, if any distribution channel starts taking a big slice of the money pie, the terms of the contract renewal will be changed because without the content they are dead.
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holy 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
Browserless can do this for free: docker run -p 3000:3000 browserless/chrome:latest
https://github.com/browserless/browserless/blob/main/LICENSE
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> It turns out the people creating the front end pocket most of the money. Well, yes. They're solving a pain-point for the paying customer. You're solving a pain-point for someone who is solving a pain-point for the paying customer. You're one (or more) degree's removed from the source of the revenue.
I mean, the common advice is to “sell shovels”, no? I think it’s non-obvious that in this case the correct strategy could be “go dig for gold”
We run an API to finetune text-to-image models (dreamlook.ai), as a two-person team. When we launched 3 years ago our differentiator was that we could train both cheaper and faster by running on TPUs, these days GPUs have mostly caught up, and open source models are not as competitive as they once were. It’s making ~5k/month these days, not bad as we’re no longer actively working on it, but a fraction of what we were…
I know of a guy, but his scenario was quite unique. I was working for an energy company who shall remain nameless, but who's internal IT was a tangle of external consultants milking the place for millions, and ineffective/underserved full time staff who couldn't run a query on a database without a change control committee of consultants milking them for yet more cash. Anyway, this guy was the go to guy for gas custom…
Is this legal? How frequently do people with unique knowledge in a company pull things like this off?
What am I missing? Can you spell out some boundaries for what you're implying because I must be wildly missing it.
On the same topic: does anyone have an API concept that they wish existed and that they'd be willing to pay for?
Those kinds of ideas can still become real businesses, especially if you have a great way to get awareness of your solution out to people who aren't actively looking for that, but you're better off trying to find problems where people have tried throwing money at every solution out there and are still yelling for help.
Tl;dr try to sell "pain killers" not "vitamins".
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And what commands do I run if I want to do 100 screenshots per second?
Not 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.
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I also have a similar api Screenshot api and web scraping api https://capturekit.dev
> 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.
So if you want, "turn your website into an app", that would be interesting.
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Sounds like this does a lot more than simply take a screenshot. It mentions removing cookie banners, ads, etc. which is an always moving target. If you have one, very narrow specific use case, then maybe that’s not so bad. But sounds like a huge pain if you need that for any arbitrary site.
Couldn't this be done with a headless Firefox and adblocker extensions?