Posts by Raphael

@Raphael

Samuel Raphael

Building Quorel — versioned data APIs for developers
quorel.vercel.app Joined July 2026
429 Points29 Badges4 Connections4 Followers6 Following

Posts by Raphael

Raphael in Articles 2 min read
No. And most people optimizing for AI visibility right now don't realize this. I went down a rabbit hole this week on how search behavior has shifted since AI chatbots went mainstream, and a few numbers stopped me. Gartner predicted traditional sea...
Raphael in Articles 2 min read
title: Gnat, self-hosted analytics as a single Go binary, with a built-in MCP server tags: go, selfhosted, opensource, ai A few months back I was crawling the web for a side project and came across an analytics platform's data that had exposed use...
Raphael in Articles 1 min read
Built Quorel: turn any public website into a structured, versioned dataset. Describe the fields you want in plain English, it extracts nightly, and every refresh is saved as a diffable, reversible version. Real example, not a mockup: 25 rows added, 7...
post-cover-23641
Raphael in Articles 2 min read
Firecrawl and Apify both do the hard part well. They render JavaScript, dodge bot detection, and hand you back clean markdown or structured JSON. If you need a page turned into text, either one will do that job. But most of the time the point isn't ...
Raphael in Articles 3 min read
The problem with "just build your own API" If you've ever wanted a personal dataset job listings, product prices, whatever you know the real cost isn't the idea, it's the pipeline. Scraping. Cleaning. Storage. Refreshing on a schedule. Serving it o...
post-cover-23414
chevron_left

Latest Jobs

View all jobs →