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felarof
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Comment #47403051
I do this via BrowserOS -- https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS It has an in-built MCP server and I use it with claude code, codex and like it quite a lot.
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Comment #46738913
> “Every month, alert me to any fluctuations in product cost and which items in my Square catalog are affected. Highlight any items where my COGS exceeds 35%. All the invoices are …
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Comment #46738102
There are bunch of tedious / routine tasks that AI can automate. I think the big hurdle is mostly education / shift in mindset. We are so used to doing the task manually that most …
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Comment #46735789
You can't run shell commands though. Bash is the most powerful tool in claude code!
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Comment #46735773
BrowserOS should work with agent browser as well in headless mode! On top of that, if you want headful mode, you can use our MCP server https://docs.browseros.com/features/use-with…
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Comment #46735757
> You guys need some marketing help. There’s a lot of potential here, but you don’t do a good job of selling it. Thank you for the feedback. Ack, we need to do a better job of mark…
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Comment #46734684
At the moment, our product is designed for headful mode. But if you want to use our browser in headless and use playwright that would work too! (we are chromium fork)
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Comment #46726968
gpt-oss 20B works well. You'll want at least 12k context length for agent mode.
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Comment #46725937
Thanks! > whole Browser and not a Chrome Extension argument Both of us are definitely biased to think our own approach is better :) But without owning the binary, we couldn't shipp…
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Comment #46724817
We are still in early versions of the feature! Haven't released on our repo yet. What use case did you have? Happy to show a demo of current version we have (you can hit me up on d…
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Comment #46724720
Thanks! > how is it reliably enforced? At the chromium level, you have access to every single DOM element and coordinate space around it. So, when a click happens either user or ag…
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Comment #46724454
Ohh, interesting, technically this should already be possible. Because we already package gemini-cli into the sidecar (bun) binary. We just have to create a good UX. What angle are…
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Comment #46724398
Thanks for initial feature request! We do read every single request :) Yes, we expose BrowserOS as an MCP server -- that you can use from claude code, cursor, opencode, etc -- http…
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Comment #46724050
> if you're interacting with like salesforce or a customer support tracker or an issue tracker or something you're likely using a webapp Precisely. I think most knowledge work (esp…
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Comment #46723782
Good question. We think the browser is becoming the new OS. It doesn’t really matter anymore if you’re on Windows, macOS, or Linux—the browser is where most work already happens. W…
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Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser
Hey HN! We're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers building BrowserOS (YC S24). We're an open-source, privacy-first alternative to the AI browsers from big labs. The big differentiator…
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Comment #45660266
You have a great business sense! There is an open source alternative -- browserOS.com
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Comment #45660252
This is exactly our vision as well! But we want to enable you to run these automations using local models, which would be secure and privacy-first https://git.new/BrowserOS
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Comment #45659929
You should try us :) open-source and privacy-first alternative to Atlas -- https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS
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Comment #45629402
Thank you! > curious about your anti-bot detection implementation at the C++ level. Are you modifying specific Chromium fingerprinting. TLDR basically most browser automation platf…
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Comment #45623955
I see. Let me know if I got it correctly: if the UI of our browser looked different than Chrome, you would use that? We kept the UI same because we felt people tend to have affinit…
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Comment #45622891
Ohh man, this definitely hurts. We were a team of 2 until recently and we've been working hard to get through the backlog of feature requests as fast as possible. I think we've def…
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Comment #45621551
Hmm I've tried. Google chrome doesn't allow starting `--remote-debugging-port` on main profiles. Logs below from my MacOS. not sure if it allows on other OSes. ``` [I] ~ /Applicati…
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Comment #45621486
haha fair point. but here you can clone any website's design as inspiration to build on top of it