Remote: Remote only

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, non-profit, healthcare, education...)

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, non-profit, healthcare, education...)

I’ve had a goal on my mind for a while: to automate the process of figuring out what people actually want.

I’m building a set of tools to find app concepts worth building and niches that are overlooked or badly served.

The first piece is Seam. It connects to Google Play and can read thousands of recent reviews for any app, then pull out the main complaints and pain points. The idea is to help you figure out exactly what to build if you want to compete with an existing app or address the same niche.

You can ask it to aggregate the complaints and strengths across a bunch of similar apps too. This makes it useful for analyzing competitors, or even your own published app, although, to be honest, that wasn’t my original goal.

It’s completely free for now. You get 3 messages without an account and 30 free messages if you create one.

I’ve started exploring a few related ideas as well. One is analyzing social media posts, basically looking for people asking things like “How can I do X?” or “Is there a tool for X?” and finding recurring pain points.

Another is automating demo video creation to see which concepts get the most engagement on social media, also trying to look at past Product Hunt and Indie Hackers submissions to help predict which concepts are likely to succeed too. Adding support for Trustpilot and the App Store is on my list as well.

I think combining all of these data sources could be really useful for systematically finding concepts to build that people already want.

I’d love some feedback on the overall concept and to know whether I’m the only one interested in this kind of tool before investing more time in it.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176789

Points: 2

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Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

- worked across web, mobile, AI, security, automation and scraping

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, healthcare, education...)

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

- worked across web, mobile, AI, security, automation and scraping

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, healthcare, education...)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107645

Points: 2

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(Yes, this is vibe coded, so take it with a grain of salt ;))

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797986

Points: 3

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There would first be a quick introduction to the legacy ways of scraping(i.e GET request+parser), why they’re often not enough today and when can they be still used.

Then I’d delve into more advanced techniques, I usually try to find the cheapest/free solutions to the problems I’m solving but I’ll also compare paid options:

-how to make your scrapers/bots as stealthy as possible

-everything you need to know about fingerprinting

-how to bypass datadome, cloudfare, captchas…

-how to scale to millions of requests

-how to make your own free rotating proxies

-how to do automation on mobile apps and desktops

-how to reverse engineer APIs on the web or mobile

-every tips and tricks I know to scrape better

I may add a section on GPT/LLM, either about how to fasten the development of a scrapers or about how to make self healing scrapers.

Is this a topic that would interest a lot of you?

Would some of you be ready to pay a small amount for an ebook/courses on those subjects?

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860974

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

There is no backups of all the files(I know...I did not decide that)

I'd guess Google would probably be legally required to not wipe everything instantly for legal/forensics purposes, right? So is there any way to somehow recover those files?

Does any Googler or GCP user here knows if there is any kind of way of recovering those files? They are pretty critical to our core product.

Thanks in advance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36400065

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

I started teaching myself to code when I was 10yo, I've been specializing in automation and fullstack JS development since 2015.

I can basically automate or scrape anything you can think of on any device, I've worked as a fullstack & growth engineer for startups and scale ups.

I automated all kind of processes at most of my jobs, in my personal projects and in my personal life.

Worked on a few entrepreneurial projects(mostly MVPs that didn't take off :))

I work mostly with Typescript/Node/React(native), AWS Lambda, Firebase, Puppeteer/Playwright and my own private automation libraries.(also worked with a lot of other languages/technologies that aren't necessarily worth mentioning)

Please get in touch at: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail (dot) com

Github: https://github.com/OB42 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/

Remote: Full remote, open to travel a few days per year

Willing to relocate: Maybe?depends where, and I'd expect a significant pay bump

Technologies: Typescript, Node.js, React.js, React Native, Firebase/GCP, AWS Lambda, expert at scraping/automation/puppeteer/playwright/circumventing bot protections, MongoDB, (My)SQL, Golang, C, tiny bit of python/AI

Résumé/CV: Most of my background is on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/ Github: https://github.com/OB42/

Email: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail [dot] com

I think both fields are going stay separated in most curriculums for a while

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35258427

Points: 1

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