I started with a simple website scraper, but it quickly became clear that it only worked well for tech startups. So I pivoted hard: I added parallel sub-page fetching for contact and about pages, built Wikipedia integration to pull founding data, and spent a lot of time fighting ugly wikitext template parsing bugs. I also expanded industry detection from 5 categories to 20+, which made the scans much more accurate across different kinds of businesses.The UI got a full redesign too, from something vibecoded into something much more editorial, with a dark hero section, Cormorant Garamond serif text, and electric blue accents. The most important addition was the “Ask AI” button: Groq’s llama-3.3-70b now fills in missing founders, revenue, and key products on demand, but only when clicked, so there’s no latency penalty during normal scans. After setting GROQ_API_KEY on Vercel and deploying to production, the project became a full intelligence tool that can generate detailed reports for both Stripe and local businesses. Ship the thing.
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