Inkgest, Link to Gest

Name: Inkgest, Link to Gest
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Author: shreyvj

by shreyvj·Feb 27, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

Custom scraper + LLM draft generator in 60 seconds, but Firecrawl, Copy.ai, and Claude+browser already solve this.

Strengths

•Custom Hono.js scraper with persistent server avoids cold-start latency; handles JS-rendered pages without external APIs.
•SVG/React component rendering for infographics is more sophisticated than simple image APIs; no external visualization dependency.

Weaknesses

•Core value (URL → draft) is crowded: Firecrawl, Copy.ai, web2newsletter, and native Claude can do most of this already.
•No differentiation beyond execution speed; pricing ($9/mo) and features (10→100 credits) are table-stakes for this category.

Post Description

I built Inkgest over the past few months as a solo developer. The core idea: paste any URL, Inkgest scrapes the content using my own scraping API (not Firecrawl, no third-party, custom scraping API), sends it through an LLM, and generates publish-ready content in whatever format you need — newsletter, blog post, infographic, tables, LinkedIn post, or deep comparison table.

A few things I built that I found interesting technically:

- Wrote my own scraping backend in Hono.js instead of using a third-party service. Runs as a persistent server, so no cold starts. Handles JS-rendered pages.

- The infographic renderer generates real SVG/React components from extracted data — doughnut charts, step flows, stat cards, comparison splits. No image generation APIs, all rendered code.

- Built on top of my own SaaS boilerplate (buildsaas.dev), which handles auth, payments, email, and admin out of the box.

Launched yesterday. 3 free credits to try everything, $9/month after that.

Happy to share the product and discuss in depth about the AI agent, scraping techniques, and building SaaS products.

inkgest.com