Office Hours #2 Recap - Web Scrapers, Enterprise AI, & a 1-Minute Website Builder
Yesterday's office hours turned into a mix of AI tool reviews, real-time experiments, and some deep talk about the AI gold rush happening inside enterprise companies ⚙️ TL;DR - Best scrapers right now: Apify + Firecrawl - Enterprises are slow to AI, entrepreneurs like us can use that as leverage - Caffeine AI can design an entire website from 1 sentence in a few minutes 1️⃣ Web Scrapers That Actually Work: A great question came up about web scrapers - what’s reliable, flexible, and doesn’t break every week? We talked about Apify, which is like the App Store for web scrapers. They have prebuilt scrapers that can scrape almost website: Amazon, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter (X), YouTube, product sites, etc. they work best when you chain them into custom workflows. 2️⃣ Selling AI to Enterprises (and Why They’re Terrible at It) We also dove into a recurring theme: how slow and inefficient big companies are at adopting AI. I shared this clip from a Y Combinator talk that basically said: “Enterprises are terrible at implementing AI — and that’s exactly why solopreneurs and startups can win.” 3️⃣ We Discovered a New Tool: Caffeine AI. One of the members mentioned a tool that can build websites from a single sentence prompt with an agentic coding assistant. So naturally, I tried it live on the call. In literally 60 seconds, it generated a clean, aesthetically solid landing page with a layout, color scheme, fonts, all from a simple prompt I thought of on the spot. 4️⃣ What I'm Working On: While all this was going on, I was in the background working on my investor pitch deck for a new app I’ve been building for the last 6 months. Next Office Hours: 📅 Thursday 1:30 PM PST If you haven’t joined one yet hop in, even if it’s just to watch me build in real-time or jam with other members.