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This is not Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet This is the real thing, the original if you will. As for Perplexity, to me this company and line of product are seemed as the alternative to anything great in AI.
As a small startup we cannot outspend Perplexity Comet in marketing, so we just said open-source alternative so that people get what we are building.
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> I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day browser. Given that you're working on a direct competitor, this comment reads as fearmongering, designed to drive people over to your product.
I personally talked to another agentic browser player, fellou.ai, in the space asking them how they are keeping up with all the Chromium pushes as you need a dedicated team to handle the merges, they flat out told me they are targeting tech enthusiasts that are not interested in the security of their browser as much. As an ex-Google engineer I know the immense engineering efforts and infrastructure setup to develop C…
Definitely understand that keeping up with security patches is important. And this is an engineering challenge and not implausible to do -- Perplexity is 1/1000th the size of Google and they could be build a better product. So, "you can just do things".
We are still on day 1 of launch. We will only get better from here. And we won't be 2 people forever. We plan to hire, expand team and take on the engineering challenges.
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> I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day browser. Given that you're working on a direct competitor, this comment reads as fearmongering, designed to drive people over to your product.
Conflict of interests at its heart. I mean, I have no skin in the game but I mean, there are people who are using Dia (browser company) and Dia is closed source so it would be nice to see those people jumping to browser OS atleast. I personally would prefer it as an extension but there are some limitations as the author of browserOS noted within extensions but I just wish that google/chromium can push those changes u…
C++ APIs for dom tree, a11y. We eventually want to ship a small fine-tuned LLM and package with browser binary too.
Just getting started!
> But we strongly believe that a privacy-first browser with local LLM support is more important than ever – since agents will have access to so much sensitive data. How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering? But if it doesn't make money, I can only assume that the team will be acqui-hired to answer that question.
> How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering? Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version. This is similar to how many open-source projects sustain development. And enterprise browsers are picking up -- Island browser, Talon browser.
Makes sense and the software license chosen (AGPL-3.0) also makes sense as well.
Sounds like a clear path to monetization and much better than some of the VC backed browser-first companies out there.
Good luck.
What is your future revenue model?
Love the direction here. Local-first, open-source agentic browsers feel inevitable as AI gets more deeply embedded in our workflows. Watching the agent actually click around (vs. black-box cloud APIs) is both reassuring and fun. Curious how you’re handling Chromium’s relentless update pace with such a small team -- Does patching ever break in unexpected ways? Rooting for you; privacy-centric infra like this is long o…
So far our patches have not conflicted with chromium updates. But there are viable ways to do patching and keep up with the pace (Brave Browser has pretty example infra setup to do this).
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> How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering? Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version. This is similar to how many open-source projects sustain development. And enterprise browsers are picking up -- Island browser, Talon browser.
> Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version. Makes sense and the software license chosen (AGPL-3.0) also makes sense as well. Sounds like a clear path to monetization and much better than some of the VC backed browser-first companies out there. Good luck.
I tested it out asking it to summarize the comments of an Arstechnica article and at first it said:
> I am unable to summarize the comments as the provided page content only contains the article itself, not the comments section. The extract tool does not appear to be able to access the comments on this page.
I had to tell it to click on the "comments" link for it to actually start going through the comments. For reference, there's 3 pages of comments and it's taken more than 20 minutes and performed around 100 actions, with lots of those actions being scrolling down a very specific 1074 pixels. I am currently sitting here still waiting for the actual summary while it says "Validating task completion..."
Seems like it could be powerful, but the hand holding required and extremely slow speed make it unusable for me at this point.
Since I had Nxtscape installed, I tried the same experiment and it successfully did it in less time with fewer actions. Not sure if that's just random chance or if there's different logic running under the hood.
One final note: There's a Chrome extension that lets you use your iCloud passwords in Chrome and it doesn't work in either Nxtscape or BrowserOS. I'm not likely to use a browser that requires regularly having to go into my password manager to manually retrieve usernames and passwords, and I'm not changing my password manager for this.