Anthony Sidashin

CTO & IndieHacker. Dissolving in nature. Bootstrapping Helping companies with web scraping.

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Look at this awesome chromatic abberation blurred effect for navbar. I have just published it as a JS plugin to github repo. MIT license. Demo: https://t.co/GthLZAFnLr

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

@StevenWerner Hey, OakPDF got a big upgrade. Please let me know if it works for you now!

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

OK this is exactly what AI taking over the world (and forming an army) looks like:

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

I have just launched an "awesome n8n" Github repo with the top 100 community nodes, grouped, cleaned up and sorted, and already got an insanely positive response from the n8n community. Check it out: https://t.co/1erKICBsBj

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

@neverything I use awesome Mozilla readability library. It is smart enough to work on 90% of web pages with some text. The best part is that it is completely local and executed inside your n8n, without ScrapeNinja API key. https://t.co/ZuO3HHuiXC

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

My new ScrapeNinja node update turns n8n into a serious web scraping machine.
1. New operation: detect and extract primary content from HTML
2. New operation: cleanup HTML. Smartly cleans HTML up.
3. Custom extractor JS evaluation. LLM writes scraper code for you! Check video

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

@neverything Sure thing! https://t.co/8iXfqYDEol

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Just built an n8n workflow with brand new ScrapeNinja integration. It gets URLs from a Google Sheet, runs ScrapeNinja browser, takes screenshot of a web page, and puts screenshot back to sheet. I've literally spent 10 minutes building this flow. Aint it amazing?

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Solana token FOMO calculator: How much would you have now if you'd purchase 1000 USD worth of Solana in 2020? https://t.co/lIb5NyQEmP

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Now, it costs 4.3 USD to transfer 1 USDT, in Tron. These gas fees are wild. https://t.co/GxDrgGghEQ

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

🤯 Blown away by https://t.co/Ym7WTwOwwa from @supabase! 🚀
A real PostgreSQL instance running in your browser (via WebAssembly) paired with a fast, intelligent LLM.
Design your DB using natural language, seed it with data, and query with SQL+human language. Wild! 🔮

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

2. AI coding is significantly increasing productivity in typical CRUD building scenarios. Instead of hiring middle level developers to help you, you can just use AI for routine tasks. And don't forget it can also help with dumb questions related to marketing and product growth!

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Look, it’s me, pair programming with Co-pilot and 4 omni!

Jokes aside,

I think we will see a big amount of $1M ARR SaaS products where the whole team consists of a single (technical) founder - within the next 2-3 years.

Here are the reasons: [THREAD]

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

1. FAANG halted expanding its workforce, so many talented engineers are desperate and can’t get a job. A lot of them will try to launch a product because they have to leave their comfort zone now.

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Take a look at this AI web scraper builder - it scales better compared to the naive approach of feeding HTML into an LLM for every page, because it generates Javascript!

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Did you know that sending 1 USDT TRC20 on the Tron blockchain now costs $3.30 in gas fees? Insane. I dove deep into Tron API and created a Telegram bot that cuts these fees by 50%.
https://t.co/UanTbVpp6d

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

400 subscribers 😍
My most popular YouTube video is still about a Telegram bot for Google Forms, not about ScrapeNinja and web scraping. It appears that far more people submit forms than scrape web content, huh?

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Just migrated big production database from Linode to bare metal Hetzner machine (and upgraded MySQL 5 to 8 along the way).
Cost decrease: 2.56x (192 USD -> 75 USD)
The hardware bump: 32GB RAM -> 128GB RAM

Median latency decrease: ~4.5x (HTTP response latency measured via ELK)

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

My new custom built Node.js+Vue.js web dashboard to run my APIs and web scrapers from a browser (instead of a VS Code terminal). I enjoy websocket-powered realtime UI updates!

[Anthony Sidashin @pixeljets]

Is there an API gateway which can be used as a kill-switch and anomaly alert system for an enterprise website with 20 different external APIs? I got a 27K USD bill from one of our API providers.