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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

#71
This 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?

Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

#72
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Hi! 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…

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

Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

#73
post #71

This 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?

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 cybersecurity companies too

Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

#75

If 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…

Funny I just did that today to replace Jina with Readability. It's surprisingly good.

Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

#78

If 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…

Sure. The first 70% is a piece of cake. Get the last 5% right.

Re: Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

#79
> Websites can opt out of our service, and we respect these requests and add them to our block list.

I.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

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