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oh thanks for this :)

let me know how everything goes with the integration over email, always down to help

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 testing + anecdotal reports

anything specific you want me to compare across these companies? to outsiders they look the same but it's actually quite a diverse lineup you've asked about

fixed & deployed, thanks for flagging.

thank you!

is that a problem/annoying? i thought it would be fine

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

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

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, parallel = search for ai (primarily)

we differentiate by prioritizing the infrastructure use-case, we encourage people to build products & features on top of our APIs and build it accordingly

some direct differentiators are: no hidden credit multipliers, world class brand data, and an api that just works

we're trying to be good samaritans on the web, and cache data whenever possible so we can avoid overloading a website, it's the main reason we don't offer "login with ai" features even though it's trivial at this point, it's quite hard to figure out how to avoid shady behavior while building something people want, i don't have a good answer yet and neither do many others

lastly, to reiterate, lots of our customers migrate from alternatives, but lots also just use multiple providers

i see you too are an experienced dev

touché

"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 reliably, then they should at-least try to do that.

many of my customers moved from in-house solutions because the engineering time spent on maintaining something like this alone makes it quite the undertaking, the infra needed to support something like a few hundred TPS w a browser fleet would cost more than a sub to us in the majority of cases

ignoring the obvious ragebait, the soc 2 "thing" is the truth, we are type 1 certified, and are in observation for type 2