jonasnelle

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by jonasnelle 3y ago
autotab is not an always on browser extension like you are probably used to. autotab is only added to the Selenium-controlled browser window you use to write the automation while you're recording. Also my experience differs more broadl
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
Glad to hear it, let me know how it goes! And yes, other browsers are definitely in our future at some point
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
I'm more interested in making it useful than extracting value. Longer term I think you'd monetize the infrastructure to run the automations at scale in the cloud.
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
Hey, nice detective work :) This is definitely more of a pivot, though the ZTool product also went through a few bigger iterations itself. I think my learnings from building and talking to users the last few months boil down to two main thi
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
Interesting, what features are most impactful in making it more pleasant to work with? We picked Selenium because it seems much more widely used at least in the Python world (selenium has about 10x more downloads on PyPI than playwright). M
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
I'm not familiar with UI.Vision but from looking at their website briefly it looks like the resulting automations they are part of their system/UI. We think that output as code is the way to go, so that you don't have to lear
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by jonasnelle 3y ago
That's awesome! We couldn't have built any of this without Selenium, definitely standing on the shoulders of giants :) Right now we have the basic sanity check that the Selenium xpath selects exactly one element in the DOM. Going
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