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Parse

Fall 2025 · Active

Build an API to interact with any website.

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Parse lets developers build APIs for any website in seconds at fractions of a cent per call. Unlike traditional scraping tools that rely on slow, expensive headless browsers, Parse reverse-engineers websites' underlying network requests and generates optimized API endpoints automatically. This makes Parse 10-100x faster and significantly cheaper than browser automation, enabling use cases like real-time price monitoring, lead generation, and data integration that were previously impractical.

Founders

  • Alex FormanFounder

    I've been obsessed with web automation since I was 12, when I taught myself to code building sneaker bots. That early experience showed me how broken traditional scraping tools were. I launched Parse in August, hit 30K users in 3 weeks, and dropped out of Berkeley Engineering to make it the best way to programmatically interact with the internet.