BrowserOS
Productivity
ai browser
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How HN took it
9 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 20 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Idea: 6 for, 12 againstExecution: 0 for, 7 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Watching the agent act locally is appealing
From 2 comments
Love the direction here. Local-first, open-source agentic browsers feel inevitable as AI gets more deeply embedded in our workflows. Watching the agent actually click around (vs.…
anupj on HNThis is very exciting given the rumor that OpenAI will be launching a (presumably not open source) browser of their own this summer. I've joined your Discord, so will try it soon…
zebomon on HN
Open-source local-first agentic browser is needed
From 2 comments
Love the direction here. Local-first, open-source agentic browsers feel inevitable as AI gets more deeply embedded in our workflows. Watching the agent actually click around (vs.…
anupj on HNI use OpenAI deep research feature a ton, what's cool about this is being able to see it do the research live vs. being told just hte steps in text format (I always have to go…
ertok on HN
Objections
Agent is slow and needs hand-holding
From 1 comment
I didn't realize you all had changed your name and I'd already installed Nxtscape and thought something was wrong when I opened up BrowserOS and saw the same UI and fox emoji…
dockercompost on HN
Chromium fork maintenance and CVE patching burden
From 2 comments
> --- How we built? We patch Chromium's C++ source code with our changes, so we have the same security as Google Chrome. We also have an auto-updater for security patches and…
mdaniel on HNI love the vision of a privacy‑first, open‑source browser that runs AI agents locally, but shipping a custom Chromium fork is a huge maintenance lift so how will you handle…
andy_ng on HN
Demo tasks are not compelling
From 2 comments
The demo looks like a mediocre solution looking for a problem. I can order toothpaste without an LLM faster and more reliably.
askl on HNThe demo buying toothpaste shows the difficulty of these tasks. Toothpaste itself was very underspecified, and it essentially randomly chose from a huge list. Some tasks may have…
azinman2 on HN
Requests
Linux support
From 2 comments
Whats the roadmap looking like for Linux? I don't have Mac or Windows.
eGQjxkKF6fif on HNWhere is my linux version? A lot of researchers who could really use this project would be sitting with a dual gpu setup on a linux machine. Would be an instant hit with the…
avallark on HN
Homebrew availability
From 1 comment
Would love to see this show up on homebrew!
o_____________o on HN
Benchmarks
From 1 comment
Do you have any benchmarks to share like Halluminate's Web Bench?
arjunchint on HN
Questions
How the business makes money
From 2 comments
> But we strongly believe that a privacy-first browser with local LLM support is more important than ever – since agents will have access to so much sensitive data. How does this…
rvz on HNWhat is your future revenue model?
jerrygenser on HN
Why Chromium instead of Firefox
From 1 comment
If this is a privacy first browser, why wasn´t Firefox used when it is much better out of the box for this approach? All security and privacy focused webbrowser use Firefox. Like…
MasterYoda on HN
Alternatives named
Perplexity Comet
From 2 comments
My main gripe - and I cannot sufficiently emphasise how fundamental this is - is that it seems, just as with Comet, this is not actually the integration of LLM agency into the…
xebulon on HNThis is not Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet This is the real thing, the original if you will. As for Perplexity, to me this company and line of product are seemed as…
tzury on HN
Brave
From 1 comment
This was definitely a hard choice. We spoke to folks who had built browser on top of webkit and they spent nearly 2years just fixing random bugs and getting sites to work. I'm…
felarof on HN
Nanobrowser
From 1 comment
This is similar to the chrome extension nanobrowser. https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser
darkmuck on HN