marcon680

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Show HN: Montage – Quickly build product launch videos with coding agents(github.com)
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by marcon680 1y ago
Generally our use cases are completely different -- if a user is doing scraping, it's been structured scraping on a small (<50) set of sites where they need to be able to pull data from a website as if it was an API call, not as a w
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by marcon680 1y ago
We have paying customers in production at the Growth and Enterprise plans :)
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by marcon680 1y ago
We've generally seen the "easy" flows not actually be easy. Workflows that have complex branching logic (shown when filling out the Aetna form in the first example in the video), structured scraping (the second example we sho
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by marcon680 1y ago
Yep we actually cache flows after first run! This makes flows that are closer to traditional RPA pretty much the same as using Playwright/Puppeteer.
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by marcon680 1y ago
From my understanding, Browserbase mostly provides remote browsers for their users. We also provide remote browsers, but with a lot more infrastructure on top (single/multi web agents, caching/reliability support, an agentic IDE&#
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by marcon680 1y ago
Will fix, thanks for flagging!
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by marcon680 1y ago
Good questions! Will add these and put a data processors page tonight. We use Anthropic/OpenAI models.
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by marcon680 1y ago
Could I ask why the flow starts with a human logging in? Is it because you're using their credentials and/or have some sensitivity around storing their credentials? Or is it something to do with 2FA (we handle 2FA)? Or are you jus
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by marcon680 1y ago
Yes, it's a huge pain from what we've seen. That portal is actually running in production for some of our AR/AP AI customers, and getting browser agents to properly parse that page was difficult -- Coupa injects all the DOM e
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by marcon680 1y ago
Currently no, it's just the three options (free vs. $2500/month vs. larger enterprise plans). We do usually offer 2-3 month ramp up periods for the $2500/month plans that are usage based. To be transparent, we're an earl
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Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers(simplex.sh)
54 points by marcon680 1y ago|28 comments
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Context engineering for production-grade web agents(simplex.sh)
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by marcon680 2y ago
Some of the things we're trying to differently are 1) making flows deterministic by using vision models that have a consistent output given an image and an input query and 2) breaking up flows into these smaller atomic actions in order
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by marcon680 2y ago
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 si
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by marcon680 2y ago
Thanks! We're happy to add more REST API functionality -- could you email us at founders@simplex.sh if you're up to talk further about what you'd like to see? RE: pricing, we're still figuring this out!
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by marcon680 2y ago
Yeah sure! We mentioned a little bit in the post that we stumbled upon this problem when working on a synthetic data contract. Internally, we were building software at the time to fully automate the process of creating synthetic data, all t
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by marcon680 2y ago
So sorry about this, it looks like our servers went down overnight. Just fixed, should be good now!
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by marcon680 2y ago
We finetune our own VLMs for this -- unfortunately prefer not to share which ones we use specifically! ClickClickClick looks awesome, have you heard of FerretUI ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05719 )? Pretty similar idea.
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by marcon680 2y ago
Yep, any websocket URL works. I see that Browserless offers a websocket URL, so you can use them! You just need to pass in a Playwright browser object into the Simplex constructor.
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by marcon680 2y ago
Yep, we also run all our python code in sandboxes and a few other security measures! Site loading is pretty now slow due to a combination of 1. traffic we're currently getting, 2. running a remote session, 3. running a few large vision
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by marcon680 2y ago
RE: feedback mechanism -- yep, a feedback mechanism is definitely something we're thinking of adding. Since we use VLMs that are trained to always output coordinates (i.e., they don't have a way to say "not on the page")
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by marcon680 2y ago
Thanks, we hope so! That's an interesting conversation -- I'd argue that the graph-based no-code solutions you're referring to are for a different set of people than those commonly found on HN. As a developer I didn't pa
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by marcon680 2y ago
Ah, we've whitelisted some websites to prevent abuse -- amazon.in wasn't one of them. I just whitelisted amazon.in for you and tried the search query -- looks like it works!
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by marcon680 2y ago
Hey thanks! We think we're pretty different from Skyvern as Skyvern provides a full agent loop for users + is no code. We wanted to build something at a lower level (i.e., no high-level planner that chooses what tasks to do for you) an
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Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language(simplex.sh)
147 points by marcon680 2y ago|37 comments