I built a YC data scraper in under 5 minutes

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Hi HN,I'm an indie hacker who built Autonoly solo over the past 3.5 months. I essentially vibe coded the entire platform based on automation needs I encountered in my own work. I wanted to share a practical example of what it can do - creating a Y Combinator data scraper in just a few minutes without writing any traditional code.The technical approach is straightforward but effective:1. Browser automation navigates to YC's company directory 2. For YC's infinite scroll pagination, I implemented a progressive scroll function that iterates about 150 times with calibrated delays (ensuring all ~1000+ companies load) 3. Data extraction uses XPath selectors to identify and capture the structural pa

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Website: www.autonoly.com/blog/682212a2b65a68f26d0c10a4/how-to-scrape-complete-y-combinator-startup-data-in-3-minutes-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code