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Show HN: BrowserBox – Remote Browser
Hello Folks,
We've been building Browser Box as a platform to embed and stream remote browser's content. It is an early preview and we are sharing it with the HN community to get feedbacks.
Remote Browser[1] is a demo built on top of it. Here we've tried to emulate a browser's view inside a browser tab.
Do check it out and we'd love to read your thoughts here.
1. https://remote.bbx.dev/
- mrtie 4y agoAre there any concerns around trust? Is my plain text password sent to your servers for example?
- pallavJha 4y agoHi, even though we are using the secure connection and the browsers' state is discarded after we close them, we will recommend not to use private info, like, passwords, in this demo.
- johnmurch 4y agoSuper neat, I could see a lot of uses for gathering data (e.g. "Scraping") as well as automating testing. Love the idea of cobrowsing.
- ajitk 4y agoThanks for the feedback! A cobrowsing demo app should be live in a few weeks. :)
- perelin 4y agoWhat will be the differentiation to https://www.mightyapp.com/ https://www.mightyapp.com/ ?
- ajitk 4y agoAjit from BrowserBox team here. The core premise of BrowserBox and Mighty is similar - virtualize and run browsers on the server. Mighty is desktop app meant for end users. BrowserBox's API is for developers who can integrate it into apps or build custom apps using the platform. In the long run, one can potentially build a Mighty like app using BBX APIs. It is still early days and looking for active feedback from the community to see where it can go.
- graderjs 4y agoSame name and function as my source available product on GitHub: https://GitHub.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox https://GitHub.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox Interesting, seems you're doing DOM mirroring rather than viewport streaming. This makes it similar to Surfly. https://www.surfly.com/co-browsing/ https://www.surfly.com/co-browsing/