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

Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by alex1115alex on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:33PM (#43180630)

Awesome job launching guys! We used Browser Use last week to order burgers from our smart glasses:

https://x.com/caydengineer/status/1889835639316807980

One thing I'm hoping for is an increase in speed. Right now, the agent is slow for complex tasks, so we're still in an era where it might be better to codify popular tasks (eg: sending a WhatsApp message) instead of handling them with browser automation. Have yall looked into Groq / Cerberus?

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Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by gregpr07 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:24AM (#43181231)

That was such a cool demo man! We are working on speed, we are already 3-4x faster than operator with gpt4o

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Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents by MagMueller on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:19PM (#43186408)

One option could be for the main apps like WhatsApp to have defined custom actions, which are almost like an API to the service. I think the interplay between LLM and automation scripts will succeed here:

Agent call 1: Send WhatsApp message (to=Magnus, text=hi) Inside, you open WhatsApp and search for Magnus (without LLM)

Agent call 2: Select contact from all possible Magnus contacts Script 3: Type the message and click send

So in total, 2 calls - with Gemini, you could already achieve this in 10-15 seconds.

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