JigsawStack Updates! Hackathon Highlights & What We're Building Toward 🧩
Hey Devs,
Things are moving fast. We launched JigsawStack v3, hosted another Smol Models Hackathon, shipped major improvements, and made our debut on Product Hunt. Here’s a quick recap, plus everything new and what’s coming next.
Hackathon Recap
We wrapped our second Smol Models Hackathon in San Francisco and it delivered.
Devs spent the day experimenting, connecting, and shipping creative prototypes using JigsawStack. From first-time builders to experienced founders, the energy was strong all the way through demo time.
Thank you to all who came through- we’ll see you at the next one soon!
What’s New?
v3 brings faster APIs, unified endpoints, and major pricing improvements. Here we highlight a few of our favorite changes in a fun way:
- AI Web Scraper that handles dynamic, static, and infinite scroll pages
- AI Web Search that finds anything, anywhere
- Token-based billing — up to 36x cheaper
Gemini vs JigsawStack vOCR
We benchmarked Google’s Gemini OCR against JigsawStack vOCR on real-world tasks:
- Multilingual signs
- Structured PDFs
- Receipts
- Handwritten text
JigsawStack vOCR delivered stronger accuracy, richer structure, and faster responses.
Try it out in our interactive Google Colab Notebook.
Read the full comparison →
Translate Text in Any Image
Our new Image Translation API lets you extract, translate, and overlay foreign text right back into images. While also keeping the images original style. Great for:
- Travel and tourism apps
- Product localization
- Educational tools and research
Other Improvements Since v3 Launch
- Speech-to-Text: Faster speaker detection and cleaner transcript splits
- vOCR: Improved accuracy on high-res and complex documents
- Bug Fixes: Performance boosts across OCR, Translate, and Embedding
- SDK Updates: NSFW file support and more on the way
Big Thank you to the Community!
Our Product Hunt launch brought in great feedback and support from devs around the world.
If you missed it, you can still check it out here:
View the launch →Want to Get Involved?
Here are a few ways you can join in and maybe get featured in our next update:
- Submit your build → Reply to this email or share it on X. We’d love to feature you!
- Join our next hackathon → Coming soon (Bay Area)
- Contribute to docs or SDKs → Found a bug or missing example? PRs welcome 🙌
Thanks for building with us. Whether you're experimenting on the weekends or shipping to production, we're here to make backend AI infrastructure simple, powerful, and accessible.
Cheers,
The JigsawStack Team