Re:Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code a...
by marcon680 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:25PM
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Thanks John! We should make that more clear in the docs. You can set browser=None on initialization and Simplex will create a local browser instance that can run on your local websites. We're not planning to be open source right now since a large portion of our product is custom vision models + inference speedups through hosting.
Browser Use is another YC company. Probably the biggest difference is that they're more agent focused while we're more lower level -- in the Claude Computer Use camp like you mentioned.
Also, did you evaluate https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use by any chance and have any comments about it? I'm assuming it was too AI-heavy based on what you said about claude/etc?