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Some prior art: "CoScripter" (2007) <https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/ https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/> "IBM Automates Firef
by cxr 5y ago
Some prior art:
"CoScripter" (2007) <https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/ https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/>
"IBM Automates Firefox With CoScripter" (2007) <https://www.informationweek.com/software/ibm-automates-firefox-with-coscripter https://www.informationweek.com/software/ibm-automates-firef...>
"Your personal assistant on the Web" (2010) <https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2010/10/your-personal-assistant-on-the-web/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2010/10/your-personal-ass...>
"Koala: Capture, Share, Automate, Personalize Business Processes on the Web" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/koala-chi07.pdf https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/koala-chi07.pdf>
"CoScripter: Sharing ‘How-to’ Knowledge in the Enterprise" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/leshed-group07.pdf https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/leshed-group07.pdf>
"Here’s What I Did: Sharing and Reusing Web Activity with ActionShot" (2010) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/p723-li.pdf https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/p723-li.pdf>
Demo: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIex_XAxWw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIex_XAxWw>
Source code (bitrotted, of course): <https://github.com/jeffnichols-ibm/coscripter-extension https://github.com/jeffnichols-ibm/coscripter-extension>
- adamrezich 5y agoaside from Browserflow are there really no similar contemporary projects/products? seems insane to me
- yaseer 5y agoThere are many. A sample in alphabetical order - and by no means exhaustive: https://apify.com/ https://apify.com/ (YC F1) https://automatio.co/ https://automatio.co/ https://axiom.ai/ https://axiom.ai/ (YC W21) https://extension.dev/ https://extension.dev/ https://www.progress.com/imacros https://www.progress.com/imacros https://trysmartcuts.com https://trysmartcuts.com (YC W21) https://ui.vision/ https://ui.vision/ https://wildfire.ai/ https://wildfire.ai/ 3 of these are YC companies. Reminds me of mixpanel vs segment vs amplitude, where YC are backing all the horses. Each company is different in its particular approach and niche, though. This is inevitable with any large, or potentially large market. Disclaimer: Co-founder of axiom.ai
- p0larboy 5y agoYour website (axiom) needs to be better mobile-optimized. Elements be cut off by other elements. Irregular spacing, etc. Doesn't look like a VC-backed app right now. Compared to DK website, his looks way way more polished. Just my two cents.
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoYeah I'd ditch the cheesy animation and just work on getting the basics down.
- unobatbayar 5y agoI'm working on a site right now. Can you tell me what would be the basics?
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoFind an existing theme or template that is popular and covers the main type of content you need. Then just change the content as needed. Don't build something from scratch just to be special
- yaseer 5y agoAgreed - we're running an experiment on Zapier integration and the callout mucked up the header. It's since been amended. The homepage bears the scars of a lot of experiments. In pitches, I have had VCs complain about the website. I explain that we optimised for fast, messy iteration and learning. Then I explain what we've learned over X iterations. They've gone onto write cheques. Still - it's messy and could do with a blank-slate refresh soon. We have new messaging to test.
- visarga 5y agoUiPath does both browser and desktop automation. Browserflow looks very similar. https://www.uipath.com/ https://www.uipath.com/
- bdcravens 5y agoNot really. It reminds me a lot of iMacros, even the UI https://www.progress.com/imacros https://www.progress.com/imacros
- glenneroo 5y agoWhat does bitrotted mean in this context?
- e12e 5y agoAbandoned - last commit in 2013. That's typically so long ago that at least one Api, dependency or similar will be broken.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- eastendguy 5y agoThe historically first browser automation tool was iMacros (2001!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMacros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMacros