Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunch
Firecrawl offers a web crawling tool that scrapes data from websites for LLMs. This is, Peffer admits, a shady part of the AI ecosystem where bad behaving web crawlers can sometimes pound websites like DDoS attacks. But Firewcrawl has gained popularity by trying to bring in some guardrails, he says. For instance, many of its customers are enterprises scraping their own data for internal LLM use. Some websites want their data included in chatbot responses, just like they want Google links, he says. Additionally, the tool honors robot.txt settings and can be set to only scrape a public website once and share the data with others. Consequently, one job opening is for a content creation agent 'that never sleeps and always ships' that will autonomously produce 'high quality' SEO-pleasing blog posts and tutorials on how to use its product, the startup's ad says. Firecrawl wants this AI to watch engagement metrics and use that to autonomously improve the audience for its content, too. In...
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