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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by jaytaylor »

Really cool to see how far this has come since it was Texttop.

It reminds me of the txt-web app I created based on my html2text golang pkg. It takes a different (simpler and less sophisticated) approach- bottom up, no fancy rendering:

https://txt.gigawatt.io/jaytaylor.com

(Site source code: https://jaytaylor.com/txt-web)

Powered by the go html2text pkg: https://jaytaylor.com/html2text

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by EB66 »

tombh wrote: post #163
masukomi wrote: post #104

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> Also, I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. I think before you can answer that question you have to figure out if there are enough geeks like you who think this is a useful enough tool to run / use regularly. They'll likely pay you $. Alternately, find use case where even just a few users / companies would p…

Thanks for your advice, it's really helpful. I agree, I think it has a large gimmick factor, for which I don't think there's a huge amount of $ (though it does help spread the word). You have a good point about finding a niche in a large company. As others have mentioned this looks like it would be to do with endeavours out in the field so to speak, where the Internet is slow and/or expensive. So eg; military or ship…

I think your niche might be companies or professionals that need to communicate via satellite while 'out in the field'. For my job I need to take an Inmarsat BGAN terminal with me on trips into the backcountry so I can pull up a data connection wherever I happen to be. Obviously the data is very expensive. To limit costs, I check my email via SSH using Pine and basic web browsing with Lynx. Regular web browsing in Chrome is slow and very expensive. Your browser represents a huge step up from Lynx.

The maritime industry could find a large benefit from using your software. A friend of mine is a marine electrician who often works on large commercial boats up in Alaska. Some of these boats will pay in the neighborhood of $7000 per month for satellite service and unless you're the captain you get very limited access time. I'm sure they'd be interested in cutting their web browsing costs.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by ramses0 »

EB66 wrote: post #264
tombh wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your advice, it's really helpful. I agree, I think it has a large gimmick factor, for which I don't think there's a huge amount of $ (though it does help spread the word). You have a good point about finding a niche in a large company. As others have mentioned this looks like it would be to do with endeavours out in the field so to speak, where the Internet is slow and/or expensive. So eg; military or ship…

I think your niche might be companies or professionals that need to communicate via satellite while 'out in the field'. For my job I need to take an Inmarsat BGAN terminal with me on trips into the backcountry so I can pull up a data connection wherever I happen to be. Obviously the data is very expensive. To limit costs, I check my email via SSH using Pine and basic web browsing with Lynx. Regular web browsing in Ch…

That's an excellent point. Reduce cost of "$xxx" to $x" by filtering / proxying through legible text. And yes. A return to the web's roots. I applaud the author b/c I have constantly wanted to do this same hack, but would never have done it to this level.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by quadrangle »

tombh wrote: post #173
nemild wrote: post #115

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Re: financial support, have you seen Nadia Eghbal's Lemonade Stand for a whole set of ideas: A handy guide to financial support for open source. https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

Fantastic resource, thanks

As another resource for existing options:

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...

Has further notes that don't just overlap with the lemonade-stand thing. Unfortunately, Snowdrift.coop is still not available to use itself at this point.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by noobermin »

easytiger wrote: post #176
noobermin wrote: post #93

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But it doesn't work without X, a common use case for lynx/links/w3m

It does work without X. I thought this too, but just untarred a firefox tar.bz from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ And it worked on a VPS with nothing X related installed

Are you sure? [0] shows libxul contained in the firefox tar links to various X libs among other things, as the bug report I linked below mentions...

[0] https://pastebin.com/eNvM4YSK

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