Hi all, We built a way for non-technical people to automate work in their browser. It’s in beta, and we’ve just made it public: https://axiom.ai/ https://axiom

Hi all, We built a way for non-technical people to automate work in their browser. It’s in beta, and we’ve just made it public: https://axiom.ai/ https://axiom.ai/. After running a consultancy, we noticed lots of small tasks that never got automated. The cost was too high with existing consultancy-focused solutions. So lots of small repetitive tasks built up. Recently though, RPA has become a popular technology for automating big, repetitive processes. RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a way to automate using the user interface of applications, rather than APIs. If you’ve ever used an Excel or Emacs macro, it’s the same principle. Companies like UiPath and Automation anywhere have had great success deploying RPA for enterprise use-cases (e.g. processing 1000s of invoices for a multinational) But we believe RPA also has potential as a no-code paradigm for smaller use-cases (e.g a customer support person doing data-entry). That's because most people intuitively understand UIs, but not APIs. So we thought, what would happen if you took RPA technology and packaged it up in a no-code Zapier-like SaaS? This way, all the small tasks too small for developer time can get automated. Our current users are mostly non-technical and in roles like sales or e-commerce administration. They have repetitive extract, transform, load (ETL) tasks, like: -Gathering data for sales enrichment, then inputting into their CRM -Connecting and exporting data from e-commerce systems like Amazon and Shopify, where APIs are limited. UI-based automation is not just a way to fill gaps in APIs. We've found it is a more intuitive and faster way for many non-technical people to automate. Along the way, we’ve also discovered many new niches (like sports betting funds) that we didn’t know existed. Axiom is not built for large-scale data-scraping or automated testing, though. These require specific features we do not yet support (e.g. IP switching, or assertion logic). We don’t touch your data. All data-processing and execution occurs client-side, on your machine. We only store the code for execution. For data storage, we use your Google drive account. Our beta only supports Google Chrome (this is just an MVP. We want to expand support to FireFox and other browsers with time and resources). I’m sure the HN audience has seen how challenging browser automation can be, particularly with the complexity of modern JS-heavy web-apps. We’d love your feedback, experience and thoughts! For example: Some users have said the permissions being requested by our app are off-putting. We’re listening and adapting. We’re removing permissions + improving communication. To reiterate, we do not store any data processed by bots on your machine: https://axiom.ai/privacy-policy https://axiom.ai/privacy-policy