Nesan Selvan replaced Firecrawl

Now: open-web-search (own search and scraper), running 7 weeks

$960net saved per year, after running costs

Nesan Selvan's team used Firecrawl around the clock to check nutrition facts against the live web. He built his own search and scraping service that queries search results, fetches pages in Chrome and converts them to Markdown, runs it on a single Contabo VPS, and released it as open source.

Receipt #02412026-09-12

Nesan Selvan

Old billFirecrawl subscription: ~~$115~~
NowContabo VPS: $35

Net saved per month$80/mo

Thank you for not renewing

Source

x.com

Numbers as reported. How this ledger works

Timeline

Replaced2026-09-12

Stack

vps chrome contabo

Embed

<a href="https://replacemrr.com/s/nesan-selvan-replaced-firecrawl"><img src="https://replacemrr.com/badge/nesan-selvan-replaced-firecrawl.svg" alt="Replaced MRR on replacemrr"></a>

Report this story