ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Looks like somebody forgot to update the gitignore lol
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ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Yup that's right its Robotic Process Automation.
Based on the feedback in this thread we're going to be releasing an updated version that focuses more around tooling for the browser agents themselves as opposed to scaling/scheduling, so stay tuned for that!
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
This should be fixed now
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
We're in the middle of putting this together right now but it's going to be a wrapper around Google Secret Manager for those that don't want to set up a secrets manager themselves.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Depends on the use case. Lots of hospitals and banks use RPA to automate routine processes on their EHRs and systems of record, because these kinds of software typically don't have APIs available. Or if they do, they're very limited.
Playwright and other browser automation scripts are a much more powerful version of RPA but they do require some knowledge of code. But there are more and more developers every year and code just gets more powerful every year. So I think it's a good bet to make that browser automation in code will replace RPA altogether some day.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
We do support sentry. Finic projects are poetry scripts so you can `poetry add` any observability library you need.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
That's a great suggestion! Essentially a cron job to check for website changes before your automation runs and possibly breaks.
What does this check look like for you? Do you just diff the html to see if there are any changes?
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
There are quite a few open source YC startups at this point. Our understanding is that:
1. Developer tooling should be open source by default 2. Open source doesn't meaningfully affect revenue/scaling because developers that would use your self-hosted version would build in-house anyway.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
If you want to use an agent for scraping/automation, you would need to supply it with auth credentials. So permission is required by default.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Looking at their docs, it seems that with Browserbase you would still have to deploy your Playwright script to a long-running job and manage the infra around that yourself.
Our approach is a bit different. With finic you just write the script. We handle the entire job deployment and scaling on our end.
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
We currently don't save the browser state after the run has completed but that's something we can definitely add as a feature. Could you elaborate on your use case? In which scenarios would it be better to split a run into multiple steps?
ayanb9440 | 1 year ago | on: Integrating with Legacy Software: A Guide
I spent some time building legacy software integrations while contracting for startups, so I wrote this guide for developers in the same boat. It covers user-permissioned authentication, the trade-offs between RPA and reverse-engineering APIs, and how to deploy your integration to production.
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Startup Leaderboard
I see so you'd prefer the flow to be enter your ARR -> log in to confirm as opposed to the other way around? I'm guessing to reduce friction?
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Psychic - An open-source integration platform for unstructured data
Thanks for the heads up! We'll have that fixed ASAP but in the meantime signing up with Google or email/password should work
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF
Here is a fully self-hostable solution that connects to PDFs in your google drive folder: https://github.com/ai-sidekick/sidekick
Uses weaviate so that even the vectorstore can be self-hosted
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Sync data from SaaS tools to a vector database automatically
Pre-populating with test credentials is a good idea!
Some examples use cases for Sidekick include:
- Customer support bots that answer questions based on your knowledgebase
- Internal tools for searching through documentation scattered across different SaaS tools
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Sync data from SaaS tools to a vector database automatically
Yeah for sure! I'm guessing you want a Plaid-like flow where end users OAuth and enter in which folder/etc?
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source ETL framework to sync data from SaaS tools to vector stores
Nice, quite a feature set. Add a PR and ping us on slack, we'll merge it in
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source ETL framework to sync data from SaaS tools to vector stores
+1, here's the line in the codebase: https://github.com/ai-sidekick/sidekick/blob/main/sidekick-s...
We'll also add support for huggingface embeddings like MPNET and SBERT in the future!
ayanb9440 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source ETL framework to sync data from SaaS tools to vector stores
Is Marqo a vector database? If so that sounds great, feel free to put up a PR!
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