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FetchFox
Company blog · fetchfox.ai/astartupscareer
FetchFox is the company blog at fetchfox.ai, writing about startups and career. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link FetchFox in hiring threads and one remark about its homepage layout. The site presents FetchFox, an AI web scraper that turns a plain-English prompt and a URL into structured data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-05
What Hacker News says?
FetchFox.ai | Founding Engineer | Remote, US & Canada | Full-time | Competitive comp FetchFox is looking for an exceptional engineer to join our team. We’re making an AI powered web scraper. You can type what you want in English and it automagically handles all different site layouts and data schemas. It’s 10x easier than using CSS selectors and code, and it lets non-coders scrape also. Try it out at https://fetchfo…
Comment linking /a/founding-engineer-compensation
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS as a story · 177 points
HN discussionFetchFox.ai | https://fetchfox.ai | REMOTE (US) | competitive compensation FetchFox is an AI web scraper. It convert takes a prompt and a URL, and crawls that site to give structured data. [edited to remove listing, as we are working through existing applicants at this time]
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted Rethinking Founding Engineer Equity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionOff topic but on your home page https://fetchfox.ai/ the wider your screen the fewer 'Our Happy Users' anecdotes you get. Somewhere around 2400px the number goes to zero.
Comment linking /
on “1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS”