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OtmaneBenazzou | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Fullstack Developer, automation, bots, mass scraping | REMOTE, France

I started teaching myself to code when I was 10yo, I've been specializing in automation and fullstack JS development since 2015.

I can basically automate or scrape anything you can think of on any device, I've worked as a fullstack & growth engineer for startups and scale ups.

I automated all kind of processes at most of my jobs, in my personal projects and in my personal life.

Worked on a few entrepreneurial projects(mostly MVPs that didn't take off :))

I work mostly with Typescript/Node/React(native), AWS Lambda, Firebase, Puppeteer/Playwright and my own private automation libraries.(also worked with a lot of other languages/technologies that aren't necessarily worth mentioning)

Please get in touch at: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail (dot) com

Github: https://github.com/OB42 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/

OtmaneBenazzou | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

Location: France

Remote: Full remote, open to travel a few days per year

Willing to relocate: Maybe?depends where, and I'd expect a significant pay bump

Technologies: Typescript, Node.js, React.js, React Native, Firebase/GCP, AWS Lambda, expert at scraping/automation/puppeteer/playwright/circumventing bot protections, MongoDB, (My)SQL, Golang, C, tiny bit of python/AI

Résumé/CV: Most of my background is on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/ Github: https://github.com/OB42/

Email: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail [dot] com

OtmaneBenazzou | 2 years ago

You don't need an "AI expert" to learn to code with an AI assistant. Copilot and GPT are pretty straightforward, the next version of Copilot seems even better

OtmaneBenazzou | 2 years ago

When you say in combination with AI, are you talking about teaching them ML fundamentals or high level ways of using AI?

I think both fields are going stay separated in most curriculums for a while

OtmaneBenazzou | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2022)

SEEKING WORK | Fullstack Developer, automation, bots, mass scraping | REMOTE, France

I started teaching myself to code when I was 10yo, I've been specializing in automation and fullstack JS development since 2015.

I can basically automate or scrape anything you can think of on any device, I've worked as a fullstack & growth engineer for startups and scale ups.

I automated all kind of processes at most of my jobs, in my personal projects and in my personal life.

Worked on a few entrepreneurial projects(mostly MVPs that didn't take off :))

I work mostly with Typescript/Node/React(native), AWS Lambda, Firebase, Puppeteer/Playwright and my own private automation libraries.(also worked with a lot of other languages/technologies that aren't necessarily worth mentioning)

Please get in touch at: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail (dot) com

Github: https://github.com/OB42 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/

OtmaneBenazzou | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

Hi! It looks really REALLY cool!

Is there any kind of detection/stealthiness benchmark compared to libraries such as puppeteer-stealth or fakebrowser?

Honestly no matter how feature-complete and powerful a scraping tool is, the main "selling point" for me will always be stealthiness/human like behavior no matter how crappy the dev experience is.(and IMHO that's the same for most serious scrapers/bot makers)

Will it always be free or could it turn into a product/paid SaaS?(kind of like browserless) I'm kind of wondering if it's worth learning it if the next cool features are going to be for paying users only.

Is this something that you use internally or is it just a way to promote your paid products?

Thanks :)

OtmaneBenazzou | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Impaktek: the best way to find a meaningful job

sorry for the late response. For now I'm not using AI, just some basic data from crunchbase to filter out companies (for example the industry the company is in, I only keep greentech, edtech and medtech companies), but I'm thinking about making a classifier that can detect if a company is doing some "meaningful" work, by looking at it's description, what's it's selling, at how people talk about it on the internet. I scrape them from lots of places(indeed, linkedin, a lot of smaller sites). UMSO is pretty easy and fast to use, but they could do better in terms of functionality
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