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by felarof 1y ago
Even if apple buys, would they kill Safari? I don't think so -- comet will have to die in that case.
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by felarof 1y ago
+1, I bought perplexity pro annual subscription last year, and hardly use it now. chatGPT+o3 search is much better. My typical workflow is fire the question to Google AI mode and chatGPT+o3 at the same -- AI mode is fast but meh answer, cha
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by felarof 1y ago
this is on our radar, we should have a linux build in 2-3 days! we have macOS and windows build as of now.
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by felarof 1y ago
if you want an open-source, privacy-first option -- check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523409 :)
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by felarof 1y ago
This is cool! We are working on agentic browser (also launched today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523409 :)) Right now we have a desktop version with ollama support, but we want to build a mobile chromium fork wit
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by felarof 1y ago
We would've preferred to build this as browser extension too. But we strongly believe that for building a good agent co-pilot we need bunch of changes at Chromium C++ code level. For example, chromium has a accessibility tree for ever
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by felarof 1y ago
this is on our radar, we plan to have it ready by early next week! still a team of 2 people, so bunch things on our plate.
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by felarof 1y ago
We are a chromium "wrapper" But we are much more performant than other libs (like playwright) which are written in JS, as we implement bunch of changes at chromium source code level -- for example, we are currently implementing a
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by felarof 1y ago
Thank you! plan is to sell licenses for Enterprise-version of browser, same as other open-source projects.
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by felarof 1y ago
We just launched an open-source alternative -- you can download today; use local LLMs with ollama and not pay $200/month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523409
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Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet(browseros.com)
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by felarof 1y ago
we have an open-source alternative that is ready to download -- https://browseros.com/
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by felarof 1y ago
for local LLM, you can download ollama and you can download 4B or 8B variants. Reg. first part, our thinking right now is similar to other OSS projects, we will have enterprise offering and charge for that.
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by felarof 1y ago
Thank you for your support! Yes, in the long run, owning the underlying codebase would allow us to have more control and provide better user experience. (Very similar to cursor forking vscode)
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by felarof 1y ago
Yeah good point. if there was a "popup" or some "notification" at OS level which asked for approval for certain actions, would that be helpful? Also, maybe we can allow users the flexibility with regards to how much auto
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by felarof 1y ago
Haha thanks. Based on today's feedback, I guess we need to spend little more time on our naming and branding. will think about it :)
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by felarof 1y ago
Thank you so much for this feedback! And sorry for the annoying experience. I'll debug and fix it. this still early beta version :( We have this agent mode and chat mode both with separate tools. I think the "prompt" today is
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by felarof 1y ago
spot on! These are great examples.
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by felarof 1y ago
Hmm, there are similar use-cases which I would much prefer to offload to AI rather than me spending time on it -- "compare prices of 2tb sandisk ssd hard drive across amazon, walmart and b&h"
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by felarof 1y ago
Good point. Our thinking so far has been to build good open-source product and then offer enterprise version as paid. Island browser, chrome enterprise have kinda of validated the need for enterprise version of browser with VPN and DLP engi
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by felarof 1y ago
I see, definitely agree that more work is needed in figuring out the right UX here. Probably open a shadow browser with OAuth sessions of only a small subset of sites required for the task?
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by felarof 1y ago
Thanks for raising this - it's a critical concern and you're absolutely right to be cautious. This is exactly why we're going local-first and open source. With cloud agents (like Manus.im), you're trusting a black box wi
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by felarof 1y ago
Thank you so much for your honest feedback. I 100% agree - this is spot on! This is exactly the vision we had. We spend 90%+ of our time in browsers, yet they're still basically dumb windows. Having an AI assistant that remembers what
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by felarof 1y ago
great idea & usecase! Will look into this.Thanks! Was huge fan of Tampermonkey back in the days.
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by felarof 1y ago
+1. Browser definitely seems like it's on the verge of getting reinvented, either by us or someone else.
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by felarof 1y ago
Thanks for the honest feedback! Definitely agree there is good amount of competition here. But we do think there is a gap in the market for open-source, community driven and privacy-first AI browser. (Something like Brave?)
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by felarof 1y ago
Oh that's from browser use buildDOMTree.js. check it out on their github.
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by felarof 1y ago
Not on purpose, just got compressed during production build through webpack. will get that fixed.
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by felarof 1y ago
+1, I use AI tab grouping feature in our browser quite a lot.
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by felarof 1y ago
Some ideas here - https://nxtscape.feedbear.com/roadmap feel free to add new or upvote. Want to build what people want :)

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