Wasn’t this the point of the web?
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
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Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#72Hi! Congrats on the launch, I gained LOTS of great insights from your comments, particualrly the bits about diffrentiation in a crowded market. I am building something in agentic automation space, currently it's still under development, but would love to know your journey of ideating -> building -> getting the first customer -> iterating -> and presumably getting into YC. Am still relatively new to this (19 lol) so I…
Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#73This seems like a responsibly designed service, but I find it a little odd and baffling that we need such intermediaries for the average hobbyist / small project to reliably access sets of content published on the internet. Wasn’t this the point of the web?
the same could be said of most cybersecurity companies too
Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#74Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#75If you want to vibe something that gets you 70% of the way to this well funded startup in like 15 minutes just tell your LLM of choice to create a hook or override the web fetching skill to pipe the content through Mozilla’s readability extension that strips the DOM elements out deterministically, leaving only the content. You can then parse it however you want. Can be done entirely client side, in runtime, with a fe…
Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#76Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#77Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#78If you want to vibe something that gets you 70% of the way to this well funded startup in like 15 minutes just tell your LLM of choice to create a hook or override the web fetching skill to pipe the content through Mozilla’s readability extension that strips the DOM elements out deterministically, leaving only the content. You can then parse it however you want. Can be done entirely client side, in runtime, with a fe…
Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
#79I.e: "robots.txt already exists and is commonplace but if we actually followed it our solution wouldn't work so all websites on the planet need to do something specific to opt-out our ddos." lmao