by doomerhunter
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- Interesting. Quick question in regards to the code generation : Do you dump the DOM to provide relevant context to build the automation or does the agent automatically tries to discover relevant segments (like a claude code) ?
Edit : Answered in the video, dump of a simplified version of the DOM. How is the discovery of the rest is performed ?
Super nice, can really see the use cases, even for security testing.
- Wow, really cool project. As someone who's not primarily a frontend developer but has had to write a lot of browser-based feature tests, I love the concept and execution.
Why the subscription model though? That's the one thing that concerns me.
Is data being sent back to your servers to enable some of the functionality? I don't speak for my employer here, but as someone who works in the healthcare technology industry, if I wanted to get my bosses to buy into this, I would be looking for something that we license to run on our environments.
by Imustaskforhelp
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- Is there a way to move code outside of browserbook, I tried it and built something and wanted to deploy it on my vps or similar so I wished to move the code out but I am sorry but I tried pupeeteer, playwright etc. to work with it but it simply doesnt work in the context of pupeteer,playwright similar and I would prefer if there was a way to just run the code itself/move the code perhaps to something which can run on vps or similar?
by jackconsidine
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- Congrats on the launch
Please port to linux soon (sure it's relatively trivial on Electron :)).
Like the idea of the IDE. Seems like it'd make it easy to prototype and launch quickly.
RE: embrace the suck, yeah I'm with you. I prefer the brittleness of scripts to non-deterministic (potentially unhinged) workflows
by nickstaggs
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- Awesome product! I really liked how the auth profiles work as well. While the primary use case is workflow automation are there any roadmap items on integrating this with the developer experience? A previous company I was at was fairly fond of e2e tests in playwright and this seems like it would have been a huge boon for writing them quickly.
by orliesaurus
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- I've been hacking together my own browser automations... the idea of deterministic scripting resonates with me... but I'm wondering how BrowserBook plans to handle authentication flows that require 2FA or CAPTCHAs.
ALSO is there any plan for integrating with CI pipelines... being able to run these scripts headless on servers would be huge.
BUT overall it's refreshing to see someone lean into brittle scripts rather than hide behind agent magic...
by jackienotchan
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- Congrats! Could this also be used to generate e2e test automations?
For scraping, how do you handle Cloudflare and Captchas? Do you respect robots.txt instructions of websites?
- This is a novel idea. Somewhere between the extremes of being useful vs being an overkill. More towards overkill because of its dependency on a new app/browser that needs to be installed. But I'm looking forward to more development on this idea, making it a production-ready automation.
- This is a super interesting product, guys. I get that agents aren't great for everything right now, but I'd expect that they'll continue to improve over time (like everything in the LLM space).
How do you see the product evolving as agents become better and better?
- I feel like I've seen a product similar to this quite recently on HN, but it was a standalone agentic workflow which was open source on GitHub. I can't seem to find it right now. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?
by innagadadavida
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- I'm curious why use a hosted browser instead of just spinning one up locally and since you already have he electron app. Why not just use a different Chrome profile for isolation and interact with that?
- Are you still doing healthcare back office automation? Would love to learn why you pivoted out if not, happy to DM as well
by danecjensen
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- How long until cursor copies this
- > only available for Mac so far, sorry!
Is there a plan to change this? Building on Electron should make it manageable to go cross-platform. 2026 will be the year of the Linux desktop, as the prophecies have long foretold.
Off-topic, but Kernel refers to https://www.onkernel.com. A bit of an awkward name
- I like this and find it profoundly weird in equal parts. I get the use case and why it’s being done in “the browser”, but like RPA and similar tech, I have to wonder at the path that the industry took to get here and make this a viable and clever solution.
Somewhere there is a timeline where front-ends evolved differently.
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