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Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by j0hnyl »

atum47 wrote: post #66
jonasnelle wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

autotab is not an always on browser extension like you are probably used to. autotab is only added to the Selenium-controlled browser window you use to write the automation while you're recording. Also my experience differs more broadly, I use browser extensions quite a bit, e.g. for ad blocking and password management. Afaik Honey was basically a browser extension and was bought by Paypal for $4B.

I think this is the email i got that led me to believe extensions were dead: Now: You can no longer create new paid extensions or in-app items. This began as a temporary restriction in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 situation. This change is now made permanent. December 1, 2020: Free trials are disabled. The "Try Now" button in CWS will no longer be visible, and in-app free trial requests will result in an error. Feb…

This all just means that you need to roll your own monetization functionality. I think there are still people building businesses on top of browser extensions.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by mthoms »

Hopefully you're still monitoring this page:

Do the HTML contents of the page get sent to your server for processing? What guarantees are there over privacy?

One of the uses I see for this is in helping users scrape their own transactions from banking and other financial websites.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by jonasnelle »

mthoms wrote: post #112

Hopefully you're still monitoring this page: Do the HTML contents of the page get sent to your server for processing? What guarantees are there over privacy? One of the uses I see for this is in helping users scrape their own transactions from banking and other financial websites.

Yes, we process the contents of the page when users are recording on our servers but don’t store the page HTML. I don’t see any world in which we would sell data, but in case you’re worried about the security of our servers I’m not sure there’s much I can say other than that we use standard security best practices including SSL, 2FA on cloud accounts etc. Does that answer your question?

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by jdthedisciple »

jondwillis wrote: post #37

This is amazing. I will try to have it automate my system of agents web app in a meaningful way (turtles all the way down.) Shameless plug: https://github.com/agi-merge/waggle-dance BTW I don’t normally use Chrome- I know why you would start with that, but it would be great to see a Firefox or even Safari version of this.

I checked out waggledance.ai - looks awesome what it can do and really interesting to me!

My question would be what does waggledance do that a GPT4 reply would not provide besides the (really well done) UI?

In my experience the way the tasks are generated and broken down is pretty much what I get when I ask ChatGPT.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by eshack94 »

btbuildem wrote: post #110
jonasnelle wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We currently only allow log in with Google for logging in to autotab itself, but will add login with username/password and other options soon! Depending on feedback we might also build a bring your own Open AI API key option

Ah that makes sense. I missed the API auth part, assumed BYO(OAAK) was the default

Sorry if this is self-explanatory to most, but what does `BYO(OAAK)` mean? Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by eshack94 »

kamray23 wrote: post #93
kazinator wrote: post #90

Sorry, name taken: https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/c-snippets/tree/autotab.c :)

All names are taken, you just have to become more popular to win it.

Unless it's copyrighted/trademarked, in which case you have legal ground to stand on (assuming both are proprietary services, which may not apply here).

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Post by vincengomes »

eshack94 wrote: post #115
btbuildem wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah that makes sense. I missed the API auth part, assumed BYO(OAAK) was the default

Sorry if this is self-explanatory to most, but what does `BYO(OAAK)` mean? Thanks!

Im also seeing it for first time.

But i assume it means Bring Your Own (Open AI Authentication Key).

Re: Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

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Post by eshack94 »

vincengomes wrote: post #118
eshack94 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry if this is self-explanatory to most, but what does `BYO(OAAK)` mean? Thanks!

Im also seeing it for first time. But i assume it means Bring Your Own (Open AI Authentication Key).

That makes sense, thanks! I assumed BYO was for "Bring your own" but wasn't sure about the 2nd part.
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