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Kadoa
Company blog · kadoa.com/blog · on HN as hubraumhugoaidata
Kadoa is the company blog at kadoa.com, writing about ai and data. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 126 times, most often “Show HN: Filter and Monitor Hacker News Based on Your Interests”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kadoa's product and use-case pages as a web data extraction tool for scraping, feeds and AI-based data structuring. Most mentions are pointers to the product rather than discussion of its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kadoa is the web data layer for finance. Our AI agents build, monitor, and maintain mission-critical web data pipelines that produce verified datasets for investors.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Filter and Monitor Hacker News Based on Your Interests3 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2023-10-27
- Web Scraping on Autopilot with GPT-43 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-04-20
- AI Agents: too early, too expensive, too unreliable (for now)2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-05-21
- /playground2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
- 1 in 10 members of Congress traded stocks in companies their committees oversee2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-22
- The most trending topics on Hacker News2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-18
- Extract Web Data Easily with AI2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
What Hacker News says?
The big winners of this: devs and AI startups - No more vendor lock-in - Instead of just wrapping proprietary API endpoints, developers can now integrate AI deeply into their products in a very cost-effective and performant way - Price race to the bottom with near-instant LLM responses at very low prices are on the horizon As a founder, it feels like a very exciting time to build a startup as your product automatica…
Comment linking /blog/ai-flywheel
on “Open source AI is the path forward”Submitted Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers as a story · 560 points
HN discussionI believe this is where smarter tools like Kadoa [0] can be of help. It detects data structure changes for existing workflows, and adapts to them. [0] https://www.kadoa.com/
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on “After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days”Submitted Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue as a story · 432 points
HN discussionI've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants. Isn't game development already discussed here? I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...
Comment linking /hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d530804fe2
on “Hacker News for Gamedev”Submitted Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models? as a story · 103 points
HN discussion> Data extraction/structuring data is the only serious application of LLMs I fully agree. I realized this early on when experimenting with GPT-3 for web data extraction. After posting the first prototype on Reddit and HN, we started seeing a lot of demand for automating rule-based web scraping stacks (lots of maintenance, hard to scale). This eventually led to the creation of our startup ( https://kadoa.com ) focuse…
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on “My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4”Submitted Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day as a story · 29 points
HN discussionKadoa | Web Scraping/Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com We’re automating web scraping at scale with AI. Web scraping used to be the same for decades (writing and maintaining rule-based scripts for each source), and we're fully automating that process with LLMs. We're also heavily focused on making ethical scraping the default (robots.txt checks, rate limiting, any custom compliance rules). Bu…
Comment linking /careers/web-scraping-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Extract Web Data Easily with AI as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI got so annoyed by this kind of tedious web scraping work (maintenance, proxies, etc.) that I'm now trying to fully automate it with LLMs. AI should automate repetitive and un-creative work, and web scraping definitely fits this description. It's a boring but challenging problem. I've started using LLMs to generate web scrapers and data processing steps on the fly that adapt to website changes. Using an LLM for eve…
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on “Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide”Submitted AI Agents: too early, too expensive, too unreliable (for now) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWe've been working on AI-automated web scraping at Kadoa[0] and our early experiments were similar to the those in the article. We started when only the expensive and slow GPT-3 was available, which pushed us to develop a cost-effective solution at scale. Here is what we ended up with: - Extraction: We use codegen to generate CSS selectors or XPath extraction code. This is more efficient than using LLMs for every da…
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on “Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive”Submitted Show HN: Filter and Monitor Hacker News Based on Your Interests as a story · 10 points
HN discussionKadoa | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (Europe) | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com We are building the foundational infrastructure for unstructured data ETL. Our platform enables any organization to instantly extract, transform, and integrate unstructured data (websites, documents, emails, etc.) - without code or maintenance overhead. You’ll work at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and software development,…
Comment linking /careers/devops-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted Show HN: What's hot on HN? A visualization of trending topics on HN as a story · 9 points
HN discussionComprehensive and practical write-up that aligns with most of my experiences. One controversial point that has led to discussions in my team is this: > A common anti-pattern/code smell in software is the “God Object,” where we have a single class or function that does everything. The same applies to prompts too. In theory, a monolithic agent/prompt with infinite context size, a large toolset, and perfect attention w…
Comment linking /blog/ai-agents-hype-vs-reality
on “What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs”Submitted An internet where bots outnumber humans as a story · 7 points
HN discussionKadoa | Frontend/UX | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com Kadoa is an AI platform that automates unstructured data ETL. 80% of data is unstructured and traditional methods such as web scraping, PDF parsing, and manual data preparation require expensive engineering resources and constant maintenance. We’re solving this at scale, but we can't do it alone. We are looking for talented people who share our passion for…
Comment linking /careers/frontend-dev-ux-designer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)”Submitted Show HN: Filter and Monitor Hacker News Based on Your Interests as a story · 6 points
HN discussionKadoa | Multiple Roles (Senior Software Eng, Frontend/UX) | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com We're building AI agents for unstructured data. 80% of data is unstructured and traditional methods such as web scraping, PDF parsing, and manual data preparation require expensive engineering resources and constant maintenance. We’re solving this at scale, but we can't do it alone. We are looking for talented people w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted I built a Hacker News monitoring service to keep up with all the AI news as a story · 5 points
HN discussionKadoa | Multiple roles | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com We’re automating web scraping at scale with AI. But we can't do it alone. We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI. We are growing fast, have a “no-bullshit” policy, and try to minimize the distance between the code you ship and the customers who use it. We have openings for: - Web Scraping Engineer: https…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)”Submitted 1 in 10 members of Congress traded stocks in companies their committees oversee as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHas anyone seen AI agents working in production at scale? It doesn't matter if you're using Swarm, langchain, or any other orchestration framework if the underlying issue is that AI agents too slow, too expensive, and too unreliable. I wrote about AI agent hype vs. reality[0] a while ago, and I don't think it has changed yet. [0] https://www.kadoa.com/blog/ai-agents-hype-vs-reality
Comment linking /blog/ai-agents-hype-vs-reality
on “Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI”Submitted US home electricity prices by state since 2019 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionKadoa | UX Designer/Frontend Developer | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com We’re automating web scraping at scale with AI. But we can't do it alone. We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI. We are growing fast, have a “no-bullshit” policy, and are very execution focused. We have openings for: - Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-softwa…
Comment linking /careers/frontend-dev-ux-designer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)”Submitted Why is candy so expensive this Halloween? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGreat to see cool stuff being built on top of HN data! Many of us rely on this platform as one of the primary sources of information. > recommending stories to you based on your interests I built this as a service that monitors and classifies HN stories based on your interests (solved my FOMO): https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack
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on “Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News”Submitted US company lobbying spend vs. market cap 2025 as a story · 3 points
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