Mindcase is the infrastructure layer for extracting web data in a structured, usable format. Built for developers and AI teams that need reliable web data without managing scraping infrastructure. Access APIs across popular sources, or get anything across the web built as a custom API for your specific use case.
Six hours in, Mindcase is at #3 Product of the Day with 139 points and 26 comments. Plenty of day left but we're grateful to everyone who upvoted or asked something sharp.
Congrats on the launch! Does it have a router based on the scrapping that has to be done or do we have to assign each scrapper different path ? Also is there cli available ?
Jumping in as one of the makers here - If you are looking at this next to something you already pay for, we would much rather you tell us where we fall short than quietly close the tab.
We are a small team and the most useful thing we have ever gotten from a launch is somebody explaining precisely why they did not switch. So push on it today. Ask about the sources you actually need rather than the ones in our screenshots, ask what happens when a site changes, ask what a failed run costs you.
The 100% bonus credits run for 24 hours and your first call is free, which is mostly so you can test the reliability claims yourself rather than take our word for them in a launch post.
We are in the comments all day, and will give you a straight answer even when it is that we are not the right fit for what you are doing.
The custom API angle is interesting. A lot of scraping tools work well for known sources, but the anything across the web problem is where teams usually get stuck.
@sansa_grey Thank you, and worth saying plainly: anything across the web is the ambition, not a guarantee.
Some sources are genuinely a bad idea and we would rather tell you that than take the work and disappoint you two months in. What we can commit to is a straight answer either way, quickly.
If you have a source that has stalled a project before, name it and we will tell you honestly where it sits.
That was the main thing we wanted to get right. Good to hear that comes across from outside.
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@kanupriya_chhabra1 I can see so many potential use cases for @Mindcase and I love the pay-as-yo-go model rather than an ongoing subscription. Best of luck with the launch.
@codeandsea Thank you Brent. Subscriptions felt wrong for something this bursty. Most teams pull hard for a week, then go quiet, and paying for idle months makes no sense. Prepaid wallet, no seats, no minimums, you pay for rows you actually collect.
A practical question for anyone evaluating a web data vendor, us included: what would you ask to figure out whether it actually works in production, not just in a demo?
For me, there are three:
What happens when a page only partially loads? Do I get a row with quietly empty fields, or a failure I can actually see?
Am I charged for attempts, or only for rows that were successfully collected?
Who notices when a site changes - you or me?
Our answers are: honest errors, rows collected, and us.
In my experience, when a vendor gets vague on any of those three, that’s usually where the pain starts showing up in month two.
Ask us the same three questions. Hold us to the answers.
Atlaso
Congrats on the launch! Does it have a router based on the scrapping that has to be done or do we have to assign each scrapper different path ? Also is there cli available ?
Mindcase
@ashish_khandelwal11 There is a separate endpoint for each API. There isn't a CLI but you can access Mindcase through the API or an MCP
Mindcase
Jumping in as one of the makers here - If you are looking at this next to something you already pay for, we would much rather you tell us where we fall short than quietly close the tab.
We are a small team and the most useful thing we have ever gotten from a launch is somebody explaining precisely why they did not switch. So push on it today. Ask about the sources you actually need rather than the ones in our screenshots, ask what happens when a site changes, ask what a failed run costs you.
The 100% bonus credits run for 24 hours and your first call is free, which is mostly so you can test the reliability claims yourself rather than take our word for them in a launch post.
We are in the comments all day, and will give you a straight answer even when it is that we are not the right fit for what you are doing.
Buffup.AI
The custom API angle is interesting. A lot of scraping tools work well for known sources, but the anything across the web problem is where teams usually get stuck.
Mindcase
@sansa_grey Thank you, and worth saying plainly: anything across the web is the ambition, not a guarantee.
Some sources are genuinely a bad idea and we would rather tell you that than take the work and disappoint you two months in. What we can commit to is a straight answer either way, quickly.
If you have a source that has stalled a project before, name it and we will tell you honestly where it sits.
Netlify
Normalizing web extraction behind a single API call shape is a total game-changer for AI teams. Super cool build, congrats!
Mindcase
@thisiskp_ Thank you KP, so glad you like it.
That was the main thing we wanted to get right. Good to hear that comes across from outside.
@kanupriya_chhabra1 I can see so many potential use cases for @Mindcase and I love the pay-as-yo-go model rather than an ongoing subscription. Best of luck with the launch.
Mindcase
@codeandsea Thank you Brent. Subscriptions felt wrong for something this bursty. Most teams pull hard for a week, then go quiet, and paying for idle months makes no sense. Prepaid wallet, no seats, no minimums, you pay for rows you actually collect.
Mindcase
Sanjay here from the Mindcase team.
A practical question for anyone evaluating a web data vendor, us included: what would you ask to figure out whether it actually works in production, not just in a demo?
For me, there are three:
What happens when a page only partially loads? Do I get a row with quietly empty fields, or a failure I can actually see?
Am I charged for attempts, or only for rows that were successfully collected?
Who notices when a site changes - you or me?
Our answers are: honest errors, rows collected, and us.
In my experience, when a vendor gets vague on any of those three, that’s usually where the pain starts showing up in month two.
Ask us the same three questions. Hold us to the answers.
SpeedLegal
This is actually pretty useful. Keeping scrapers working is such a pain, so having it all behind one API makes a lot of sense. Nice launch 👏
Mindcase
@rajat_kapoor05 Putting it behind an API is partly a technical decision and mostly a way of making sure that knowledge is not sitting with one person.