Joel Griffith
Founder of Browserless, a bootstrapped browsers-as-a-service company that reached multi-million ARR by serving developer needs and building a long-term content engine.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 52min
Joel Griffith - Browserless
Joel Griffith, founder and CEO of Browserless and former jazz musician turned engineer, built a cloud service to run headless browsers at scale. He talks about the origin story, deep operational headaches like memory and browser flags, practical uses such as scraping and testing, the BrowserQL tool for turning sites into queryable APIs, and plans for multi-browser support and sustainability.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 50min
Bootstrapped SaaS: $200 Customer to $4M ARR Solo
Joel Griffith, founder of Browserless — a bootstrapped browsers-as-a-service company — grew to nearly $4M ARR by solving his own engineering pains. He explains finding first customers on GitHub and Stack Overflow. He describes eight years of content and OSS that now drive inbound. He also covers competing with funded players and how AI created new demand for his product.
