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suchintan
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About suchintan
We help companies automate workflows in the web using our open source browser automation tool
Check us out here: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern
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Shoot - good call. For anyone reading this: Playwright is a very popular browser automation library. Developers use it to automate websites, spanning use-cases like QA Testing, Web…
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Comment #48939309
We did the same thing. It took me a few iterations to get the library right, but overall I used approx 10 billion tokens here across a codex and Claude max plan The first iteration…
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Rustwright: Playwright rewritten in Rust that uses 70% less memory
Hey everyone, Suchintan from Skyvern (YC S23) here. We're open sourcing something we built internally: Rustwright: Playwright on an in-process Rust CDP engine. It’s a full rewrite …
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Comment #46378740
That makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it's easier to leave the baggage behind. It's too bad..selenium is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it with the world
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Comment #46378472
This makes sense. I guess I wanted to understand why starting from scratch was better than "fixing" selenium, but perhaps "fixing" selenium isn't an option?
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Comment #46378096
This is very cool. We were thinking about doing something very similar with Skyvern What was the reason you went down this path instead of extending selenium with AI features?
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Comment #46234042
maybe https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern ?
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Comment #45631438
You're right, but this is where the LLMs are especially useful. Our customers all prompt it to terminate if it doesn't have the right information / the pre submission confirmation …
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Comment #45627788
What are some of the risks? This is a public web form available on the IRS website
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Comment #45627374
Send me an email suchintan@skyvern.com - we can get you started
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Comment #45623809
No, we don't have a lot of usage in that direction. People mainly use us to log into websites and either fill out forms or download files!
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Comment #45623496
Unrelated, but thoughtful gave us some very very helpful feedback early in our journey. We are big fans!
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Comment #45623481
That's the dream
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Comment #45622371
Definitely. What are your thoughts on the CloudFlare agent identity
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Comment #45622360
It's funny, one time we had a customer that wanted to use us to test their website for bugs.. Skyvern kept suggesting improvements unrelated to the issue they were testing for
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Comment #45622359
We do have them! We are HIPAA compliant, have soc-2 type 2 and offer self hosted deployments
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Comment #45622351
This is really cool. We might integrate this into Skyvern actually - we've been looking for a faster HTML extraction engine Thanks for sharing!
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Comment #45622343
I have a 2yo and it's been surreal watching her learn the world. It deeply resembles how LLMs learn and think. Crazy
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Comment #45621722
Yeah, reverse engineering APIs is another fantastic approach. They aren't enough if you are dealing with wizards (eg typeform), but they can work really well
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Comment #45621715
IF you can use crawlers, definitely do. They aren't enough for anything that's login-protected, or requires interacting with wizards (eg JS, downloading files, etc)