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ayanb9440

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About ayanb9440

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    Show HN: Open-source Docker image to run Chrome browsers in your cloud

    If you’ve ever worked with web scraping or automation using Puppeteer or Playwright, you know that running Chrome can be tricky. While headless mode (Chrome with no display) often …

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    Comment #41596207

    Looks like somebody forgot to update the gitignore lol

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    Comment #41596197

    Yup that's right its Robotic Process Automation. Based on the feedback in this thread we're going to be releasing an updated version that focuses more around tooling for the browse…

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    Comment #41574008

    This should be fixed now

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    Comment #41569995

    We're in the middle of putting this together right now but it's going to be a wrapper around Google Secret Manager for those that don't want to set up a secrets manager themselves.…

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    Comment #41569593

    Depends on the use case. Lots of hospitals and banks use RPA to automate routine processes on their EHRs and systems of record, because these kinds of software typically don't have…

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    Comment #41569531

    We do support sentry. Finic projects are poetry scripts so you can `poetry add` any observability library you need.

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    Comment #41569504

    That's a great suggestion! Essentially a cron job to check for website changes before your automation runs and possibly breaks. What does this check look like for you? Do you just …

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    Comment #41569077

    There are quite a few open source YC startups at this point. Our understanding is that: 1. Developer tooling should be open source by default 2. Open source doesn't meaningfully af…

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    Comment #41569037

    If you want to use an agent for scraping/automation, you would need to supply it with auth credentials. So permission is required by default.

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    Comment #41568949

    Looking at their docs, it seems that with Browserbase you would still have to deploy your Playwright script to a long-running job and manage the infra around that yourself. Our app…

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    Comment #41568857

    We currently don't save the browser state after the run has completed but that's something we can definitely add as a feature. Could you elaborate on your use case? In which scenar…

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    Comment #41393223

    I spent some time building legacy software integrations while contracting for startups, so I wrote this guide for developers in the same boat. It covers user-permissioned authentic…

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    Comment #38689741

    I see so you'd prefer the flow to be enter your ARR -> log in to confirm as opposed to the other way around? I'm guessing to reduce friction?

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    Show HN: Startup Leaderboard

    Hello Hackernews! I've been building startups for 3 years and finding my initial customers has always been a big struggle. I recently got into the "build in public" trend and love …

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    Show HN: ChatMyFiles, Open Source ChatPDF

    ChatMyFiles is an open-source alternative to ChatPDF: you upload any PDF or Microsoft Office document and ask questions about it. Unlike other "chat with your documents" solutions,…

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    Show HN: RAGstack – private ChatGPT for enterprise VPCs, built with Llama 2

    Hey hacker news, We’re the cofounders at Psychic.dev ( http://psychic.dev ) where we help companies connect LLMs to private data. With the launch of Llama 2, we think it’s finally …

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    Comment #36036566

    Thanks for the heads up! We'll have that fixed ASAP but in the meantime signing up with Google or email/password should work

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    Comment #35630020

    Here is a fully self-hostable solution that connects to PDFs in your google drive folder: https://github.com/ai-sidekick/sidekick Uses weaviate so that even the vectorstore can be …

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    Comment #35561022

    Pre-populating with test credentials is a good idea! Some examples use cases for Sidekick include: - Customer support bots that answer questions based on your knowledgebase - Inter…

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    Comment #35560993

    Yeah for sure! I'm guessing you want a Plaid-like flow where end users OAuth and enter in which folder/etc?

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    Show HN: Sync data from SaaS tools to a vector database automatically

    Hey Hacker News! Last week we made the codebase for product 100% open source. This week we shipped a dashboard to manage connectors, as well as integrations with Google Drive, Zend…

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    Show HN: Connect Google Drive to ChatGPT

    Hey hackernews! We just shipped a google drive integration that lets you connect your google drive folder to LLMs like ChatGPT, in three steps: 1. Click a button to authorize Googl…

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    Comment #35380539

    Nice, quite a feature set. Add a PR and ping us on slack, we'll merge it in