I replaced Firecrawl with 2,700 lines of Elixir
I was paying about $190/month for Firecrawl. It worked, but it was expensive and felt half baked. The CLI was awkward to use. Maybe I wasn't using it right, but the whole thing felt like it was in flux. I figured if they vibe coded it I might as well do it myself.So I vibed my own. 3k lines of Elixir, custom readability engine, no external services. It even manages, for some sites at least, to...