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….
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Building 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…
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Building 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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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Regex: How We Mapped the Indian Startup Ecosystem Without a Single GPU
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…
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Building 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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