It seems cool, will it work in headless mode without X11/Wayland/.. ?
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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#32Really cool product. How do you plan to monetize it? You guys need some marketing help. There’s a lot of potential here, but you don’t do a good job of selling it. Tell me what problems I’m going to be able to solve or what headaches it will eliminate. Can it going into that shitty Canvas app my kids’ school uses, identify outstanding assignments or low grades and send me a daily text summary? Can it automate buying…
> 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 marketing.
> How do you plan to monetize it? Our goal is to eventually to sell license for enterprise browsers.
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#33Thanks a lot, i wanted to ask about the headless agent use case: How does it compare to using https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser
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-claude-code
Would love to understand your use case! You can hit me up at nithin[at]browseros.com
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 shipped today's feature -- Agent with access to your filesystem and being able to run shell commands like Claude Cowork. > your interface is still literally a chrome extension side panel Yep, our interface is a chrome extension to make iterating…
> But without owning the binary, we couldn't shipped today's feature -- Agent with access to your filesystem and being able to run shell commands like Claude Cowork Chrome Extension can also access local files and can also execute LLM generated code in sandboxes
You can't run shell commands though. Bash is the most powerful tool in claude code!
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#35Genuine question. What's the use case for agentic browsing?
Re: Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser
#36Really cool product. How do you plan to monetize it? You guys need some marketing help. There’s a lot of potential here, but you don’t do a good job of selling it. Tell me what problems I’m going to be able to solve or what headaches it will eliminate. Can it going into that shitty Canvas app my kids’ school uses, identify outstanding assignments or low grades and send me a daily text summary? Can it automate buying…
> 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 marketing. > How do you plan to monetize it? Our goal is to eventually to sell license for enterprise browsers.
Have you ever thought about a marketplace for premade workflows? Or a library of integrations that are already tested that a user can mix and match to create complex automations? Or access to more MCP servers?
For example, it would be really neat to trigger jobs that perform some task and then make a call to Twilio or something to send an alert. Or some building blocks that tie into my Square account or Amazon account. I want to be able to describe the results I want, but I don’t want to explain how to interact with a particular service and then test that.
I would love to be able to give a prompt like this: “review my item library in Square, identify items that are missing descriptions or are miscategorized, propose the fixes, and confirm with me before making any changes.” That’s an extremely tedious task that requires a lot of clicking and page loads. I hate it and I would pay for your product if you could save me that time.
Or this: “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 available in my email.” That would be incredibly powerful. Doing this manually can take days.
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#37Genuine question. What's the use case for agentic browsing?
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 of us (including me) don't pause to think if I should be doing this or can I give to an agent.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 marketing. > How do you plan to monetize it? Our goal is to eventually to sell license for enterprise browsers.
Have you ever thought about a marketplace for premade workflows? Or a library of integrations that are already tested that a user can mix and match to create complex automations? Or access to more MCP servers? For example, it would be really neat to trigger jobs that perform some task and then make a call to Twilio or something to send an alert. Or some building blocks that tie into my Square account or Amazon accoun…
> “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 available in my email.” That would be incredibly powerful.
You could try this use case on on agent builder even today. We also have a scheduled tasks for you to schedule it to run monthly
> Have you ever thought about a marketplace for premade workflows?
We want to do this and are moving towards that! But we first need to make the premade (or user published) workflows very reliable.
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#39Genuine question. What's the use case for agentic browsing?
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 of us (including me) don't pause to think if I should be doing this or can I give to an agent.
I had browseros do a bunch of data validation for me in my Dolibarr ERP system. It cross checked my new master data against our old ERP, flagging bad links and filling in missing data. I could have done it much quicker overall with the api and some scripting, but it was easy to just write a two line prompt telling it where the data is and how to manage disagreements. Then I just watched it run on a second monitor for a few hours while I worked other projects.
I used a local Ollama model and though it was kind of amazing that it worked. I couldn't turn a typical user lose with something like this yet, but I think I see the vision. I image a lot of automation could happen this way in the future. I put less effort into the prompt than I would have needed to spend teaching someone from the office pool to accomplish the same goal, and got a good enough result.
In practice I have found that I can accomplish the same results in a stricter, more accurate, and faster way just using codex on the command line with some scripting and API access, but that's not going to work for a lot of people and putting it in the browser is pretty convenient... The MCP server that's built in can also become a bit of an API for the entire web if you're careful in how you use it, which opens up possibilities for things that don't have real APIs.
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#40Genuine question. What's the use case for agentic browsing?
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 of us (including me) don't pause to think if I should be doing this or can I give to an agent.
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