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

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

the same could be said of most cybersecurity companies too

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

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

popups / cookie banners are quite easy to get through with enough heuristics for 99%+ of cases

content-blockers are the same thing as the auth scenario, hard to figure out where to draw the line between building something people want and doing something shady