Caleb Peffer (Hiring!)
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Before you firewalk, you must firecrawl
San Francisco
Joined December 2020
Firecrawl is growing like hotcakes. It only took six products, countless prototypes, and years of failure. How to fail incessantly and still win: 🧵 👇
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RT @CalebPeffer: Last year at a hackathon, we built SharkGPT - an AI Shark Tank simulator. We didn't win. Then Mark Cuban slid into our D….
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RT @firecrawl_dev: Zapier Chatbots now pull web data using Firecrawl 🔥. Users can connect chatbots to custom knowledge sources, automatical….
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very happy with firecrawl devex!.
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If you're building AI games, DM me. If you're interested in unhobbling LLMs and building the boring infrastructure that will enable the AI future, join our cracked of 11 at Firecrawl. Someone needs to build the picks and shovels.
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Jobs at Firecrawl
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The most important lesson?. Ruthless prioritization beats perfect timing. I picked Firecrawl over SharkGPT. No regrets. But for whoever builds the next generation of AI-native games—the market is ready. The infrastructure is finally catching up.
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The blockers are temporary:. - GPU costs are still crushing.- Token costs make it impossible to scale.- Models aren't reliable enough for consistent gameplay. But these are infrastructure problems, not imagination problems. The delight is already there.
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I chose to focus on Firecrawl 🔥 instead. Best decision I ever made. We're now at 43k+ GitHub stars, a cracked team of 11, and growing like hotcakes. But I learned something important about why LLM-first games haven't exploded yet:.
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We were all founders with our own startups. The spark of delight in people's eyes was real. The opportunity was massive. But sometimes the best ideas come at the wrong time.
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Mark Cuban wanted us on actual Shark Tank. We got invited to AI comedy shows across San Francisco. Here's us on stage:. But we turned it all down:
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SharkGPT was simple: pitch your startup idea to AI sharks who roast you in real-time. My friend pitched a "revolutionary pizza concept.". The AI sharks destroyed him. Every single person who tried it couldn't stop laughing.
🦈🤖🍕 We built a #SharkGPT and AI simulation of Shark Tank, and our friend @FakeYouApp founder @echelon got "bitten" by the sharks with his "PizzaGPT" concept! 😂 Check out the hilarious video of his pitch getting roasted. #AI #SharkTank #PizzaGPT
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Last year at a hackathon, we built SharkGPT - an AI Shark Tank simulator. We didn't win. Then Mark Cuban slid into our DMs.
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Thanks!.
Tried @firecrawl_dev and it only took about 5 minutes to set up a scrape endpoint. Top-tier developer experience.
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RT @hdjirdeh: Tried @firecrawl_dev and it only took about 5 minutes to set up a scrape endpoint. Top-tier developer experience.
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RT @CalebPeffer: We're open sourcing Firecrawl Observer in 3 days 👀. Monitor any page or entire sites with @firecrawl_dev's powerful change….
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Want to help ship cool stuff like this? We're hiring:
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The easiest way to extract AI ready data from the web. Founded in 2022 by Eric Ciarla, Caleb Peffer, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, Firecrawl has 9 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA....
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We're open sourcing Firecrawl Observer in 3 days 👀. Monitor any page or entire sites with @firecrawl_dev's powerful change detection. Set custom intervals and get webhook alerts instantly when anything updates. Built with @vercel, @convex_dev, @Groq, and more. Stay tuned 👀
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RT @firecrawl_dev: Firecrawl v1.15.0 has arrived!. - SSO for enterprise.- Improved scraping reliability.- Search params added to activity l….
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Jump in early 🚀.
We're Hiring Design Engineers. If you love shipping beautiful user experiences, and can take ideas from rough sketches to production fast, this role is for you. We're: .- Remote with SF office .- Shipping incredibly fast .- Profitable w/ infinite runway. Apply below 🔥
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If you want to work with a team of obsessed, high agency former founders — you know who to call.
@benln Weeee at @firecrawl_dev - 80% of our team are former founders.
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