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Berlin, Germany
Joined March 2014
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I'm launching LearnChess on Product Hunt today 🥳
It evolved from "an app I built for myself" to a passion project with an organically growing user base.
After several months, I'm happy to share it with a wider audience!
🙏 An upvote would mean a lot: producthunt.com/products/lea…
Nikolas Burk retweeted
Very excited about this as I've faced this exact problem many times over the past few years.
Crawling the web is still super painful - even with agents.
Getting reliable and consistent answers from the web is one of the last remaining unsolved problems when it comes to AI infra.
Introducing Expand Fetch, a new way to scrape and crawl the web.
Your agent has never seen the web. No wonder it gets basic questions wrong.
Traditional Markdown APIs lose critical details. So we trained two System one models to change that:
Iris, a vision model that sees pages like you do, preserving tables, icons, and layouts.
X-Ray, a JSON model that uncovers the hidden data behind every page.
Every fetch also comes with a Wayback Machine. Every line links back to its source, so you can verify exactly what your agent saw.
Three products. One API.
On our benchmark of 1,094 questions across 326 challenging web pages, agents using Expand got 74% right. The next best API got 55%.
Available today at $1 per 1,000 fetches.
Try it at expand.ai
Nikolas Burk retweeted
Introducing Expand Fetch, a new way to scrape and crawl the web.
Your agent has never seen the web. No wonder it gets basic questions wrong.
Traditional Markdown APIs lose critical details. So we trained two System one models to change that:
Iris, a vision model that sees pages like you do, preserving tables, icons, and layouts.
X-Ray, a JSON model that uncovers the hidden data behind every page.
Every fetch also comes with a Wayback Machine. Every line links back to its source, so you can verify exactly what your agent saw.
Three products. One API.
On our benchmark of 1,094 questions across 326 challenging web pages, agents using Expand got 74% right. The next best API got 55%.
Available today at $1 per 1,000 fetches.
Try it at expand.ai
🌀 The closed cycle of my Practice Group for Inner Work starts next week—and you can still join!
I had amazing experiences at several retreats over the past years. So, I created the group to share these with my own bubble.
Wrote more about it here: nikolasburk.com/blog/startin…
If you're curious but unsure whether this group is right for you, you can always reach out to me.
I'd be happy to have a chat with you!
Or you can join the open session this Wednesday: innerwork.nikolasburk.com/ev…
software engineering in 2024: *types code*
software engineering in 2026: *optimizes the progress of these bars*
🌀 The spaces I want to create with my Practice Group for Inner work are ...
• An invitation to slow down •
Our lives are accelerating more and more, and we rarely get the opportunity to pause and reflect. In our sessions, we embrace slowness and can hold silence.
• A safe container •
We hold space for whatever comes up, without judgement, advice or commentary. What's said here, stays here. There's no pressure though, you go as deep as feels right for you at any moment.
I just added an open session for this Wednesday, 7pm. We meet via Zoom and it's free to join—I'd love to see you there 🙌
innerwork.nikolasburk.com
I was quite nervous before yesterday's first session of my Practice Group for Inner Work.
As a host, my worst nightmare is that people feel disoriented, quietly question whether this is worth their time, and disconnect.
None of that happened—quite the opposite!
We are not used to slowing down.
We are not used to spaces where we pause and hold the silence because nothing needs to be said.
We are not used to moving our attention inward.
During the two hours of yesterday's session, we practiced all three.
Nikolas Burk retweeted
The next million products will be built on a stack that works as one.
We’re building Prisma so builders and agents can move from prompt to product in one continuous loop.
This is the next chapter of Prisma.
pris.ly/new-prisma-x
"I don't think I need that. Things are going fine."
I've heard this a few times when I mention that I practice inner work regularly, and I understand it completely — I'd have said the same thing five years ago.
But it's a bit like saying you don't need to be fit because ...
... you're not currently carrying anything heavy.
The capacity to stay present in a hard conversation, to notice what you're feeling before it leaks out sideways, to hear something difficult without immediately defending — none of that arrives when you need it.
It's built beforehand, or it isn't there.
Things going fine is the good time to start.
If you're curious, join my free & online Practice Group for Inner Work this (or any other) Wednesday:
innerwork.nikolasburk.com
I'm starting something new—and it's neither tech-related, nor commercial.
🌀 It's a Practice Group for Inner Work 🌀
After having been to several retreats with @ThomasHuebl and taking part in his Practice Group Leader Training recently, ...
innerwork.nikolasburk.com/?v…
Whether you're a friend, an old acquaintance, a former colleague or our paths have never even crossed, I want you to feel invited!
The group is for total beginners, but I also welcome more experienced folks.