Ardy Naghshineh

Tweeting about my journey as an engineer turned startup founder @BrowseAI where 800,000 users are extracting data from 100,000+ websites.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@jamesclift We launched @BrowseAI 3.5 years ago. Based in Vancouver. Crossed $1m ARR in 2023 and raised US$3.2m.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@Pratham9474 @BrowseAI Hi there, can you dm me more details? Not sure if I understand what “search bar” you’re referring to.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Founder to founder feedback: it was a no for me as soon as your landing page said “switch from quickbooks or xero”. Highly recommend building an add on for them first and telling customers to switch only when they’re already in love with your software. Too many consultants/ppl are only used to those tools and I don’t want to have to onboard them.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Hey Josh, founder of @BrowseAI here 👋

You should be able to set up the scraper for each site in a few minutes using our software. No need to install anything. Watching a 3min tutorial demo helps but not essential.

Happy to record a loom for you on one of those sites showing you how I’d do it. Just reply below and give me the link to one of the sites and tell me what data (inc. attributes) you’re looking to extract.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Thanks Neal! I just forwarded this to our PM, Michael. He’ll probably get in touch to try to assist and get more feedback.

Btw we have a ton of new stuff in the pipeline. We’ll be launching a new AI assistant in the next month and shortly after, a new way to train robots on thousands of websites at once. If you’re subscribed to the product newsletter, you’ll hear the announcements!

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@sophiaamoruso @BrowseAI Thanks Sophia!

Turner’s amazing. He wrote our first seed cheque and introduced me to you, @SashaKaletsky, @arashf, and so many other great people.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@sophiaamoruso @trustfundvc @BrowseAI Thanks Sophia!

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Being an ambitious solo founder is freakin’ hard even when things are going great.

@sophiaamoruso gets it. Not a lot of investors do. Loved chatting with her and finally seeing her in person today.

If you’re raising, definitely connect with her. She’s one of our most supportive investors with an amazing network.

If you’re a lead/senior product designer or engineer in Canada and you’d love building an AI product with a massive impact, DM me!

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Being an ambitious solo founder is freakin’ hard even when things are going great.

@sophiaamoruso gets it. Not a lot of investors do. Loved chatting with her and finally seeing her in person today.

If you’re raising, definitely connect with her. She’s one of our most supportive investors with an amazing network.

If you’re a lead/senior product designer or engineer in Canada and you’d love building an AI product with a massive impact, DM me!

[Sophia Amoruso 3.0 @sophiaamoruso]

Got to meet @trustfundvc portfolio company @BrowseAI founder @ardalanme to talk all things leadership, fundraising, and poaching talent.

If you’re in Vancouver and in product or engineering, he’s hiring: https://t.co/KpQvg9piCE

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@edsuh @sophiaamoruso @trustfundvc @BrowseAI We really are!

Both you Ed and Sophia are amazing investors to have 🙌

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@damengchen I’ve been following your journey for a while.

Just used PDF AI. Loved the interface and experience.

Just one little feedback: As the bot’s reply was being printed, I wanted to start reading at the top but the scrollbar was stuck to the bottom which forced me to wait until the bot is finished.

I’d change the auto scroll behavior there to make it similar to the auto scroll on ChatGPT when it unlocks the scrollbar if the user intervenes.

Otherwise the UX was great!

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@whatslukedoing @BrowseAI @TurnerNovak Thanks Luke!

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@TurnerNovak @BrowseAI Good catch 👀 thanks Turner!

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@sophiaamoruso @BrowseAI @trustfundvc Honored to have you onboard Sophia! 🙌

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@SashaKaletsky @BrowseAI @Caspar_Lee Lucky to have you and @Caspar_Lee on the team 🙌

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

The way people use the web is broken. They still use "browsers" to use information that can make or break things. They still copy information into spreadsheets. They still waste time doing mundane tasks that AI can automate.

We're changing that. Come work with us in beautiful Vancouver and impact how millions of people work with a software platform that makes the internet more inclusive.

[Browse AI @BrowseAI]

🚀 We’re hiring! 🤖

We're on a mission to make the web accessible to everyone, enabling non-techies to turn websites into spreadsheets and data pipelines in seconds using AI robots. If you're excited by the idea of shaping the future of web automation and data extraction, we'd love to hear from you!

Positions Open:

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[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

@awilkinson @levelsio This.

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[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Most of my jobs were at agencies before. My almost-bootstrapped PLG SaaS startup @BrowseAI is now doing 7-figures in ARR with 20x YoY growth and is profitable with 18 employees.

I think you’re overlooking 2 things:

1. If it’s a b2b startup, it actually helps to have experience working closely with tens of businesses in your target industries as their software agency. You learn a ton about your market while getting paid to experiment and learn.

2. There are many great agencies everywhere (last one I worked at was @versettinc) that impress clients with meaningful KPIs, not shiny tech. And if their team has a chance to iterate and improve the product, it’s just like running a startup with a salary and 0 risk. I truly feel like I’ve run tens of startups before just because I led many projects at agencies from ideation to launching an mvp, user testing, measuring, and improving product KPIs.

I agree with what you’re saying if the person worked at an average agency with not much account retention and expansion.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

Most of my jobs were at agencies before. My almost-bootstrapped PLG SaaS startup @BrowseAI is now doing 7-figures in ARR with 20x YoY growth and is profitable with 18 employees.

I think you’re overlooking 2 things:

1. If it’s a b2b startup, it actually helps to have experience working closely with tens of businesses in your target industries as their software agency. You learn a ton about your market while getting paid to experiment and learn.

2. There are many great agencies everywhere (last one I worked at was @versettinc) that impress clients with meaningful KPIs, not shiny tech. And if their team has a chance to iterate and improve the product, it’s just like running a startup with a salary and 0 risk. I truly feel like I’ve run tens of startups before just because I led many projects at agencies from ideation to launching an mvp, user testing, measuring, and improving product KPIs.

I agree with what you’re saying if the person worked at an average agency with not much account retention and expansion.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

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[Martin Basiri @MartinBasiri]

In Just 48 hours, 10,000 H1B workers in the US applied to move to Canada.

[Ardy Naghshineh @ardalanme]

US companies have been laying off tech workers. Meanwhile Canadian companies are hiring them with 50%+ wage subsidies from the government and relocating them with quick & easy work permits.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Canada officially launches website application for H-1B visa holders in the United States to migrate north, taking away thousands of high skilled immigrants from the U.S. economy.
https://t.co/ASlyNmU2t7