[mrskitch]

I started https://www.browserless.io/ when I found out that there wasn't a good hosted solution for headless-browser work. There's a ton of other higher-level services that do things like screenshots and pdfs, but what if I needed something that those services didn't cover (and had to scale out to 100's of concurrent sessions).

I didn't really set out to do this service, but it came after _not_ finding it anywhere else. I'm about ~4 months in and make $1k/month on it so far, which tells me that others need this service as well. Happy to answer other questions about the business if folks are curious.

[palidanx]

What was version 1.0 of the product?

[mrskitch]

Version 1.0 was a very very simple hosted headless image running on a few VM's. At that point there wasn't any debugger or notifications about your sessions. Pretty much just a submission form that provisioned machines to support the account.

This actually took place after a few months in a beta where I was doing everything manually (to see if it could even work). That was actually a good lesson: do things manually until it doesn't scale as it's possible that you'll be writing code that doesn't ever run!