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How did you find your differentiation in a highly commoditized space? It's probably one of the most crowded spaces. Even within YC, there are many competitors that do pretty much t…

I'm always genuinely curious on how startups navigate the founder maze as it helps to break the myth of an overnight success story. Based on your YC page, you went through a couple…

Why is this not a Launch YC (or at least mention it?) since you seem to be part of the current batch? The record/replay is definitely and interesting direction. The browser automat…

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?

AI crawlers have lead to a big surge in scraping activity, and most of these bots don't respect any scraping best practices that the industry has developed over the past two decade…

The first two quotes are from founders of: - BrowserUse - Founded 2024 - Greptile - Founded 2023 The third quote is from a VC who has never founded a startup himself and has a clea…

I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats! YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same b…

AI crawlers have lead to a big surge in scraping/crawling activity on the web, and many don't use proper user agents and don't stick to any scraping best practices that the industr…

AI agents have lead to a big surge in scraping/crawling activity on the web, and many don't use proper user agents and don't stick to any scraping best practices that the industry …

Would you mind sharing the story behind your pivot from on-demand photorealistic vision datasets[0] to browser automation? [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lbx-simplex-on-d…

I'm noticing a big increase in crawling activity on the sites I manage, likely from bots collecting data for LLMs. Most of them don't use proper user agents and of course don't sti…

You have LinkedIn and Twitter examples, where you're very likely violating their TOS as they prohibit any scraping. I also assume you don't check the robots.txt of websites? I'm al…

This was the top comment for quite a while but suddenly dropped to the bottom. Was it automatically downranked for mentioning an OS alternative? How many upvotes does your comment …

Affected companies are becoming increasingly frustrated with the army of AI crawlers out there as they won't stick to any scraping best practices (respect robot.txt, use public API…

I'm a tech founder looking to improve my sales skills, specifically in reaching out to potential clients. This isn't about mass-spamming people, but rather about reaching out to re…

Random anecdote: I've created a Suno song as an anniversary gift for my girlfriend. She was absolutely mindblown by it as it's an earworm song with many of our memories. Always goo…

Everybody trashed Google yesterday, but I actually think they are catching up in the AI race. They will now start fully leveraging their distribution advantage across products and …

Looking at OpenAdapt, I'm wondering why they didn't integrate Tarsier into AgentGPT, which is their flagship github repo but doesn't seem to be under active development anymore.

Did you delete it or the mods?

Why was the Show HN text removed? Too much self promotion? You're a YC company, so I'm surprised the mods would do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tr…