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  1. nanobrowser

    Open-Source Chrome extension for AI-powered web automation. Run multi-agent workflows using your own LLM API key. Alternative to OpenAI Operator.

    Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community:

    Hi HN,

    I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open.

    In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...)

    We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript.

    We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts.

    Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks.

    (Alex was not able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. browser-use

    🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease.

    Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community:

    Hi HN,

    I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open.

    In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...)

    We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript.

    We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts.

    Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks.

    (Alex was not able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )

  4. chrome-extension-boilerplate-react-vite

    Chrome Extension Boilerplate with React + Vite + Typescript

    Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community:

    Hi HN,

    I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open.

    In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...)

    We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript.

    We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts.

    Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks.

    (Alex was not able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )

  5. chrome-extension-boilerplate-r

    Discontinued [GET https://api.github.com/repos/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]

    Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community:

    Hi HN,

    I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open.

    In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...)

    We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript.

    We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts.

    Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks.

    (Alex was not able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )

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