Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:42AM (#17496318)

Thanks for your advice, it's really helpful. I agree, I think it has a large gimmick factor, for which I don't think there's a huge amount of $ (though it does help spread the word). You have a good point about finding a niche in a large company. As others have mentioned this looks like it would be to do with endeavours out in the field so to speak, where the Internet is slow and/or expensive. So eg; military or shipping operations.

So at the moment I guess it's just best to hope as many different people and organisations see Browsh as possible and seeing what sticks and where.

I've got Patreon, Paypal and Bitcoin setup already: https://www.brow.sh/donate/

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by EB66 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:07PM (#17500048)

I think your niche might be companies or professionals that need to communicate via satellite while 'out in the field'. For my job I need to take an Inmarsat BGAN terminal with me on trips into the backcountry so I can pull up a data connection wherever I happen to be. Obviously the data is very expensive. To limit costs, I check my email via SSH using Pine and basic web browsing with Lynx. Regular web browsing in Chrome is slow and very expensive. Your browser represents a huge step up from Lynx.

The maritime industry could find a large benefit from using your software. A friend of mine is a marine electrician who often works on large commercial boats up in Alaska. Some of these boats will pay in the neighborhood of $7000 per month for satellite service and unless you're the captain you get very limited access time. I'm sure they'd be interested in cutting their web browsing costs.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by yazr on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:07PM (#17502168)

Wouldnt it make more sense to build this as a cloud service?

So you connect (using ssh or chrome) to a dedicated host which sends you a digest of the page...

You can also "zoom in" on elements if you want higher resolution.

As a potential user, what are your opinions ?

(Sort of like the Amazon Silk browser..?!)

Edit: phrasing, and also looked at other comments

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by EB66 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @08:24PM (#17503422)

> Wouldnt it make more sense to build this as a cloud service?

Definitely. Maritime companies and backcountry users probably won't be interested in messing around with a nifty open source tool nor the hosting infrastructure it'd require. They'll want this built out as a secure easy to use service.

@tombh Feel free to get in touch if you're interested in building or optimizing for satellite users. I'd be happy to provide some beta test feedback using my equipment.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:12PM (#17509479)

Definitely interested in this. It's exactly the thing that I imagined Browsh excelling at. I'm tom at tombh.co.uk

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by ramses0 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:28PM (#17500263)

That's an excellent point. Reduce cost of "$xxx" to $x" by filtering / proxying through legible text. And yes. A return to the web's roots. I applaud the author b/c I have constantly wanted to do this same hack, but would never have done it to this level.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by aeorgnoieang on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @10:14AM (#17498248)

Add links to Patreon, PayPal, and Bitcoin right on the home page.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:07PM (#17509442)

Woah, yeah, bold, why not.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by deepnet on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:15PM (#17500725)

I stepped up, now a Patron.

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:06PM (#17509431)

Thank you very much.

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