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So you’ve built a Chrome extension. Maybe it’s a tiny productivity helper. Or maybe you’ve gone full detective mode like I did with my Factors SDK Debugger – a utility…
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If you’ve ever worked with analytics SDKs, you know the pain. Someone reports that form submissions aren’t being tracked. Or user identification calls are mysteriously failing. You open Chrome DevTools,…
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At Factors.ai, we manage over 4,000+ customer projects. Each project generates a wealth of data — events, user sessions, integrations, CRM syncs, background jobs, and more. While our platform provides…
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The Problem: Two Worlds, Zero Communication If you’ve ever worked in a company where customer support uses Freshdesk and engineering uses GitHub, you know the pain. Support agents create tickets….
Read MoreBuilding an AI-Powered Competitive Intelligence Platform: A Deep Technical Dive
How I built a fully functional competitor monitoring system that automatically crawls websites, detects changes, and provides AI-powered business insights Introduction In today’s fast-moving business landscape, keeping track of what…
Read MoreBuilding CrawlyCarl: An AI-Powered Web Scraping API That Thinks Before It Scrapes
Introduction Web scraping has always been a cat-and-mouse game. Websites employ anti-bot measures, require JavaScript rendering, hide data behind pagination, and scatter information across multiple pages. Traditional scrapers require extensive…
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If you work in Venture Capital or Private Equity, you know Tracxn. It is often described as the “Bloomberg for Private Markets.” The platform tracks millions of startups and private…
Read MoreBuilding a Rule-Based Engine to Extract Founding Years from HTML
In the world of Private Equity, Vintage is everything. An investor looks at a company with $1M in revenue and asks: “Did they reach this in 12 months, or 12…
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