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TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
we try to read robots.txt, it's definitely more efficient if agents just see what humans see, we run a custom browser rendering stack

in terms of llms.txt, we're not primarily an AI product (although some features do use LLMs), and speaking to friends who run products it seems to be not very helpful, even though we have one as well, i didn't see it move the needle much

even my own coding agents don't look at llms.txt when looking at our own website, so unsure of whether that standard will survive the test of time

TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
oh also on knifegeek, it'll be live again this weekend when i find a moment to fix the bug causing it to crash, i collect knives/watches so it was a super fun project to work on
TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
oh wow, happy to see you here, we didn't post this anywhere so its nice to see a customer find us so quickly, thank you for the kind words.

brand data is a shockingly hard problem to get right

TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
you're welcome to try it on our demo page (no signup needed), should handle everything just fine, yes we don't mention ips on the homepage

also, while it might seem expensive, we're cheaper than every other option out there, because there's no hidden credit multipliers. every single customer who uses us halved their bill + error rate

TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
yes but we do alot more that may not be clear at first glance, things like brand data, and for scraping handling pdf, ocr, docx, ppt, xlsx automatically

shipping a bunch of new things soon which should make it clearer, but as of today yeah

TheYahiaBakour··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
There's alot of overlap at the moment, but we're diverging quite quickly.

If you want differences as of right now

- 1 credit = 1 scrape, no hidden credit multiplier - we have world class brand data - we're focused primarily on the infra use-case, rather than gtm & everything else - anecdotally, customers have seen their error rates drop quite dramatically

In general it's a huge space, firecrawl is a wonderful company, it's fun to compete with them, planning to add more things soon which should make the differences clear

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