Hey guys, this is Jan, co-founder of Apify.<p>Two years ago we showed HN Apifier - a hosted web crawler for developers - during our time in the Y Combinator Fellowship.<p>Today we're launching the largest upgrade of Apifier to date - a new product called Actor and a complete redesign of our website. Also, we changed our name to Apify.<p>Actor is a new serverless computing platform that enables execution of arbitrary pieces of code in the Apify cloud (we call them "acts"). For example, you can have an act to run a web automation job in headless Chrome with Puppeteer, to post-process data from the crawler in order to remove duplicates or to upload new contacts into your CRM. The possibilities are unlimited.<p>We also launched a library (<a href="https://www.apify.com/library" rel="nofollow">https://www.apify.com/library</a>), where you can find acts and crawlers built by other people and share yours to support the web scraping community. There are already several acts and people are adding new ones almost every day.<p>We're really looking forward to hearing what you think about Actor and to seeing what you can built with it. If you have any ideas, questions or feedback, just let us know on support@apify.com or here.