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

Post by deepnet » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

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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…

Post by comesee » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

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There really just needs to be a terminal API for true pixel graphics. Something like sixel but modernized and cleaned up. There's no need to hack in graphics on top of Unicode block characters, which negates backwards compatibility anyway.

iTerm2 has a escape codes for viewing images, but I haven’t seen any other terminals picking it up: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

Post by vorpalhex » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 8:42 PM UTC

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> 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. One of the cases where developers still use text based browsers is in attempting to check accessibility of websites. For many large enterprises, there's a legal or contractual requirement to ensure a certain level of accessibility for users with disabilities.

Nice thought, but it doesn't seem to be that kind of textual browser. Unless it really relies on accessibility to work at all.

Post by yazr » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 9:07 PM UTC

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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…

Post by EB66 » Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 12:24 AM UTC

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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…

Wouldnt it make more sense to build this as a cloud service? So you connect (using ssh or chrome) to a dedicated host which sends you a digest of the page... You can also "zoom in" on elements if you want higher resolution. As a potential user, what are your opinions ? (Sort of like the Amazon Silk browser..?!) Edit: phrasing, and also looked at other comments