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Pixeljets. Stories about building and growing SaaS products.

# Build,

Grow🌱,

Repeat.

Pixeljets is a team of Anthony Sidashin and Oleg Sidashin, two brothers and passionate developers who build and grow SaaS products for the modern web. Check out our blog or view the curated directory of web scraping APIs.

## Launched products

ScrapeNinja

High performance web scraping & data extraction API with decoupled rendering engines and smart proxy rotation, serving 1K+ customers. Bootstrapped. ### Related links:

- Bypassing Cloudflare 1020 error in web scraping
- Puppeteer API for web scraping
- Getting Started and API reference

Node.js, C, Puppeteer

Launched in 2021

## The curated list ofWeb Scraping APIs

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ProspectLens

Company Intelligence API: extract company funding, website traffic volume & founders in pure JSON format, by domain name. Backed by ScrapeNinja web scraping technology.### Related links:

- Building company data enrichment API

Node.js

Launched in 2023

Qwintry

One of the world leading mail forwarders and cross-border shopping platforms. As part of the Qwintry team, we have developed

- a fluid customer-facing UX serving 1M+ customers
- a custom WMS serving 4 fulfillment hubs around the world,
- a customs clearance and shipment tracking ERP system,
- advanced omni-channel help desk CRM to support market-leading customer service.

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PHP, MySQL, Vue.js

Launched in 2011

APIRoad

SaaS platform & marketplace for APIs, with best-in-class analytics for HTTP requests.

PHP, Node.js, Laravel, Vue.js, Clickhouse

Launched in 2021

OakPdf

Cloud PDF Editor which allows to sign a PDF file and apply realistic paper scanner effect.### Related links:

- Making PDF look like scanned. Top 4 tools to apply scanner effect, reviewed.

Svelte, Node.js

Launched in 2022

Telegram bot for Google Forms

Telegram bot which allows anyone to build their own Telegram bot based on any Google Form, to collect customer submissions which are then submitted to the parent Google Form. Runs 500+ bots accepting thousands of form submissions every day.

Node.js

Launched in 2020

GasFeesNow

Stablecoins transfer fees tracker across ETH, BSC, Polygon, and Tron blockchains.### Related links:

- What are USDT transfer fees now across all popular blockchains?

11ty, Node.js

Launched in 2022

GPT Summary API

API product to extract article texts and summarize them using GPT — built on top of ScrapeNinja engine.### Related links:

- GPT 'Summarize this URL' prompt is broken, and I fixed it

Node.js

Launched in 2023

## ScrapeNinja web scraping API

I am bootstrapping ScrapeNinja.net SaaS, which helps to retrieve and extract websites data on scale, and this is my most exciting project yet. Quick overview of ScrapeNinja low code web scraper builder:

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## Anthony Sidashin

As a web developer and CTO with over 15 years of experience, I am passionate about building profitable small SaaS products and pursuing Go-to-Market strategy for them. My areas of expertise include high performance, networking technology and APIs, SRE, automation using Puppeteer.js, web scraping, and SQL databases.

I am doing a micro-dose of amateur sports every day to stay happy and productive, so I love walking, cross-country skiing, hiking, running, snowboarding, playing tennis, and swimming on open water.

I am spending most of my time in Slovenia, Italy, United States, and magnificent Mediterranean coast of Turkey.

## Some notable blog posts

- Web scraping in n8n 2025
- Self-hosted is awesome 2024
- My experience using n8n, from a developer perspective 2024
- ScrapeNinja: The challenge of running untrusted Javascript in Node.js 2022
- ScrapeNinja: building Puppeteer API for web scraping 2022
- Clickhouse as an alternative to ElasticSearch and MySQL, for log storage and analysis 2021, top#1 HackerNews, 130+ comments
- Good thing in PHP nobody talks about 2018, top#1 HackerNews, with Rasmus Lerdorf, author of PHP, participating in discussion, 60+ comments
- Why we chose Vue.js over React 2016, top#1 HackerNews, 200+ comments, Reddit /r/webdev 70+ comments

Read more in **our blog** and **twitter**.

## I will be happy to chat with you

If you are building a software project, I will be happy to chat with you and give you my honest feedback, free of charge. My areas of expertise are:

- Building long-term SaaS business with small team, or solo
- Web scrapers & the process of integrating web scrapers into startup data lakes
- Telegram bots

My tech stack is: Linux, JavaScript (Node.js, Vue.js), PHP (Laravel), MySQL & Clickhouse.

Contact me **via Linkedin** or email pixeljetsdev at gmail

## The graveyard of my indie projects 🪦

These projects are either suspended or are not actively maintained anymore:

- Gmail delivery tester Check if your email lands in primary, in promotions, or in spam.
- Social Network Scraping API Social network scraping API, powered by Node.js & Puppeteer
- Puppeteer Automation Visa Bot Telegram bot with Node.js & Puppeteer under the hood, monitors slots on visa website, and submits applications on behalf of customers when slots appear

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