Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
by felarof on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:28PM
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Great points! For sure, the whole agentic browsers space is still super early.
We are also just getting started and trying to narrow down on a high-value niche use-case.
There are few repetitive, boring use-cases where time saving could be meaningful -- one example: Walmart 3rd-party sellers routinely (multiple times a day) keep checking prices of the competitor products to price their products appropriately. This could be easily automated with current agentic browsers.
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
by byteknight on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:31PM
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But in reality, would much more consistently be automated by a single playwright script.
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
by felarof on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:37PM
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True, there are plenty of libs already available to do such an automation if you are (or can hire a) dev.
But for non-technical folks, agentic browsers seems like a good UX to build such and many more automations.
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
by moneywaters on Sunday July 13, 2025 @01:50AM
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Yeah it should have your preferences for things to do stuff based on your aesthetics but I see how it could become security nightmare
I think it'd be better to show more non-trivial examples where the time savings is clear, and the failure cases are minimized... or even better how it's going to recover from those failure cases. Do I get a bespoke UI for the specific problem? Talk to it via chat?
This whole world is non-trivial. Good luck!