Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by gregpr07 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:43PM (#43175673)

imo if the website doesn't want us there the long term value is anyway not great (maybe exception is SERP apis or sth which live exlusively because google search api is brutally expensive).

> extract data behind login walls

We mean this more from a perspective of companies wanting it, but there is a login wall. For example (actual customer) - "I am a compliance company that has system from 2001 and interacting with it really painful. Let's use Browser Use to use the search bar, download data and report back to me".

I believe in the long run agents will have to pay for the data from website providers, and then the incentives are once again aligned.

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Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by erellsworth on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:56PM (#43175830)

> imo if the website doesn't want us there the long term value is anyway not great

Wat? You're saying if a website doesn't want your scraping their data then that data has low long-term value? Or are you saying something else because that makes no fucking sense.

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Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by gregpr07 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:26AM (#43181242)

Haha no, I am saying that if websites don’t want you there they will find a way to block you in the long run, so betting the product on extracting data from those websites is a bad business model (probably)

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Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by xena on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:07AM (#43183289)

It would be really nice if you made some easy way for administrators to tell that a client is using browser use so they can administratively block that tool. I mean, unless you want to pay for the infrastructure improvements to the websites your product is assaulting.

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