Co-Founder @firecrawl_dev 🔥 (YC S22)
Joined March 2022
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Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
We're simplifying our pricing 🔥
Credits now work across all endpoints (scrape, crawl, map, search, and extract).
With this change, Extract now uses credits (15 tokens = 1 credit) and existing Extract tokens work everywhere.
Our Branding format is here 🎨
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
Introducing the Branding format 🎨
You can now extract complete brand DNA from any website including color schemes, logos, frameworks and more in one API call
Perfect for coding agents to clone or match existing site aesthetics.
Try it out now on the playground or API today 👇
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
Join us tomorrow night for Poker at our SF office 🔥
Come hang out with the team, grab some great food, and compete for awesome Firecrawl swag.
Register here: luma.com/jyqghu39
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
Here’s @enesakar from @upstash demoing context7 and @ericciarla demoing @firecrawl_dev at today’s @a16z x Upstash x Firecrawl AI night
Two of the *most used* MCP servers on Cursor, Zed and Claude Code 🔥🔥
We're hosting a meetup with @a16z and @upstash in SF tomorrow 🔥
Meet other AI developers, share what you're building, and listen to some the awesome talks.
Apply to join here: luma.com/3laost30
We're hosting an a16z x Upstash x Firecrawl AI meetup
◆ This Monday, Nov. 3rd in SF
◆ Share what you're building
◆ Meet other AI developers
Limited spots 👇 luma.com/3laost30
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
The team has been working hard on reliability and coverage
Glad to present to the world why developers choose us as the default web data API for AI
Firecrawl is now the best Web Data API on the market! Try out v2.5 today 🔥
Firecrawl ads are live on Amp 👀
If you want to advertise directly to devs, the highest quality channel is now Amp Free.
The ad spots are filling fast, so dm me if you want in.
ampcode.com/free
Shoutout to one of our partners @firecrawl_dev
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
Credit packs just got smarter 🔥
Now every plan has one sized to match your scale.
Enable auto-recharge and never worry about running out. Link below👇
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
Our Dify integration now uses Firecrawl /v2 endpoints 🔥
Scraping is 10x faster thanks to intelligent caching, plus we've added semantic crawling, new formats, and enhanced search capabilities.
Try it out on @dify_ai today. Link below 👇
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Our new Developer Guides are here 🔥
Learn how to integrate Firecrawl with popular LLM frameworks like @LangChainAI, automate workflows with @n8n_io, and new MCP quickstarts for AI code editors like @Cursor_ai.
Check them out in our docs today. Link below 👇
Open ChatGPT Atlas is coming already? 🔥
OpenAI just dropped their ChatGPT Atlas browser, and we're cooking up an open source version.
Open Browser is an agentic browser powered by @firecrawl_dev where AI navigates and completes tasks for you.
Stay tuned 👀
Eric Ciarla (hiring) retweeted
We had traction, users, and momentum but still chose to pivot
Below, @dessaigne shares a bit about our journey from @mendableai to @firecrawl_dev - why we made the call even with strong growth, and what it taught us about timing and conviction
Thanks for featuring us ❤️🔥
Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who/when to hire.
In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners @koomen, @bradflora, @dessaigne, and @gustaf answer real questions from founders and share stories about how great teams build conviction, learn faster, and make better decisions as they grow.
0:36 - Building an AI company in a legacy industry
7:00 - Time to grow vs long-term defensibility
14:31 - Spending for temporary edge vs waiting for model leap
16:10 - When should you consider pivoting if you’ve got traction?
26:07 - The power of technically challenging problems
30:42 - When to start hiring?
35:18 - When is it a good idea to open source an enterprise SaaS product?
Super excited for the MCP Gateway 🔥
Next week we're releasing MCP Gateway - an open source router that consolidates all your MCP servers into 1 endpoint 🔥
Connect once and access all your MCP tools like @firecrawl_dev, @Context7AI, and @github everywhere.
Starting next week, all you need is one gateway 👀
