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by fchishtie 4mo ago
cool!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
cool! thank you for sharing - will check it out
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
thank you!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
we’ve found that existing RPA platforms were built more for business users/citizen developers at really massive enterprises - we’re more focused on the developer experience for building RPAs at scale
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
thank you!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
thank you! it’s a cool problem space (:
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
the underlying automations that are running on the Windows computers are just python scripts actually!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
great question - Minicor doesn’t offer any agents for performing the automation - we focus exclusively on connecting coding agents to the legacy system and using our MCP to build code based automations for doing so at scale - trying to solv
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
thank you!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
yeah those core systems of record are so locked in place - I can't even imagine the change management
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
ah for the fake EMR demo I was a bit less strict with claude, it was vision detected likely - our MCP has tools for taking screenshots of the screen and inspecting the windows accessibility tree etc
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
happy to share more over email! you can reach me at faiz@minicor.com
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
logs get written in our customers' premises on a bucket of their choosing (: so PHI doesn't leave their VPC
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
No patient/customer data included in the screenshots - in production we’d basically find some “region” of the screen to screenshot that would help an LLM say yes/no to - ex: “is the nav bar green and does it say Insert Note”
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
We think CyberDesk is great - our main difference is I believe the primary driver for their automations is computer use / agent based - whereas our automations use agents to create/maintain/support python code
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
yes effectively, but we use LLM vision in multiple places - for context, there are multiple ways an RPA can fail: 1. RPA code breaks (ex: throws an exception if a window does not exist) 2. RPA reports success but was clicking / typing
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
it’s a good q - we experimented a lot with computer use / agentic automation and found that at scale a hybrid solution where the automations run as deterministic code with agents for recovery is the best - running automations as code i
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
thank you - good catch (:
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
Yeah that’s true - in those cases we’ve either worked with their outsourced IT provider to spin up VMs for us or have had to spin up our own VM and connect through a VPN - IT can be very fun…
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
yes good call out - that customer wheel is so overdue for an update
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
Yes, more likely on a virtual machine running the legacy software
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
yeah it’s been interesting to watch, we were surprised initially at how much legacy users actually wanted to adopt AI - I think it’s because of how awful the old software can be to interact with
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
Thanks for flagging this!
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
100% right - we support the AI companies who are selling to the legacy end users - for ex: we don’t sell directly to hospitals, but an AI scribe for doctors that already has a hospital as a customer, we help them integrate to the hospital’s
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
Thank you!! Yeah that's a good point - it's been so engrained in our brains, appreciate the feedback
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
Yes! we have customers doing that
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by fchishtie 4mo ago
It's a script that simulates clicks/keystrokes on Desktop/Web
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Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale(minicor.com)
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