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Hey HN, I'm Vikesh, founder of TexAu. Happy to answer anything.

A few things the post doesn't cover that might be useful context:

What we got wrong with V1 and V2. We built a browser automation tool that depended entirely on platforms we didn't control. That's an obvious mistake in hindsight, but at the time, every company in our space was doing the same thing. The C&Ds were inevitable. We just didn't want to see it.

Why we chose a spreadsheet interface for V3. We tested three approaches: a workflow builder (what V2 was), a dashboard UI, and a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet won because our users already think in rows and columns. Every agency we talked to was exporting CSVs from 4 different tools and joining them manually in Google Sheets. We realized the spreadsheet IS the workflow, not a step in one.

*Where we are financially*. 25 people, bootstrapped, no VC. We've been close to zero runway multiple times. V3 is live with paying customers but we're early. I won't pretend otherwise.

*What I'd love HN's input on*. We're building waterfall enrichment across multiple data providers with stop-on-success logic and AI columns that run LLM calls per row. If anyone here has dealt with similar orchestration problems at scale (provider failover, cost optimization across APIs, batching LLM calls), I'd genuinely love to hear how you approached it.

Ask me anything about the legal battles, the tech, building B2B from India without venture money, or where we screwed up.

This seems like a good option for us. I will write an email to you to discuss this in more detail. Thank you!

Hi,

This looks very interesting and I’d love to try it.

We have data extraction and enrichment platform. We process over 12 million automations for our users, half of this is done on lambda and rest we try to process in a container.

We also utilize 10 GB+ in proxies.

I tried to do all the math on how much it would cost on your platform if we do a pilot project but I’m so confused with the pricing.

Can you please explain for 10,000 hours and 10 GB proxy usages what would the cost?

Hey, this looks amazing!

I couldn’t find any information about pricing? This is going to be a free tool?

I want this too please Thank you so much!

Congratulations DK, this looks amazing!

We are building similar tool at TexAu and would love to catch-up with you sometime this or next week!

@iamvikeshtiwari on Twitter

Hey Renat,

Bardeen looks super look, we are also building something very similar but very much focused on Web Automation, you can build cross platform automations on TexAu - https://texau.app

I’m thinking we should integrate with Bardeen and it will be open up so many more possibilities

~ Vikesh

I'm interested but links are broken and there is no email to apply. Please fix it.

Thank you! :)

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: NodeJs (Core Member of NodeJS), React, Meteor, Python, React, AWS, Chatbots (Worked at Slack in SF), Automation, Scripting

Résumé/CV:

https://gist.github.com/vicky002/92e7a1e3d6e058d40b1c54d3abe...

Email: [email protected]

merged most of them. :)

I'm working on the website, repository has become so big, it's hard to get find anything easily.

Websites will have categories and global search so you can find anything you are looking for quickly.

Cool, you can add link then.

I agree some of the core computer science resources are not there but I'm working on it. Will add compilers, hardware, robotics and other pure CS resources.

Should I change the title or something like that?

I will add those resources as well. It's just, it takes time to collect and curate content.

Be sure, I will compliers, robotics and hardware stuff very soon.

Hey, make sure you give us the credit and link back.