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I'd type in some incantations, click \"Run\", and voila! My lightning-powered…",{"value":64,"source":57,"evidence":65},"Non-technical marketers and professional developers who need browser automation",[66],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},{"value":68,"source":57,"evidence":69},"Free tier plus paid plans; commenters say annual pricing shows about $299\u002Fmonth",[70,74],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"29257105","deedubaya","Neat! I think your business plans are underpriced. You're saving human hours with increased accuracy, which probably is worth more than $25\u002Fmonth. edit: nevermind. 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Angular?",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"29260880","hk1337","This looks really, really nice. I had my doubts going into it but the demo really blew that away. I saw you can save to CSV, can it save to other file formats?",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"29256421","hnrodey","This is so slick. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks!",{"value":112,"source":57,"evidence":113},"Useful for scraping and repetitive tasks without code",[114,118,122],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"29256434","jokethrowaway","Really neat, that's the kind of stuff I always wanted someone to build. I think a marketplace of workflows would be a great next step, so that you can have someone else…",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"29263111","mrwww","YES! I have been wanting a solution to automate some of my simpler web-scraping needs, that also need an element of human control. Thank you for making it so i didnt have to :)…",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"29261965","VeninVidiaVicii","I definitely would have loved this in February when I had to upload 40 genomes to the NCBI, using the same format. Cheers and this looks awesome.",[127,138,149],{"value":128,"source":57,"evidence":129},"Pricing seems high",[130,134],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"29258282","kyawzazaw","Do you think you would buy this if it does? Seems pricing is high",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"29267823","phpisatrash","Why should I pay for this if Automa is free open source and better? https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FKholid060\u002Fautoma",{"value":139,"source":57,"evidence":140},"Cloud runs and Google Drive storage raise privacy concerns",[141,145],{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"29257671","KennyBlanken","> and save them to Google Drive No, thank you. Please offer a local save option.",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"29259162","mountainboy","hmm, I installed extension, clicked on \"Get Started\", allowed permissions, and am then presented with a signup\u002Fsignin page and no way to skip it. I just want to run some macros…",{"value":150,"source":57,"evidence":151},"Does not support Firefox",[152,156,160],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"29256969","fender256","I would love it if this extension was made for Firefox!",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"29258518","toss1","Excellent work; I started the demo with usual jaded attitude, but then - WOW - nice - I'll have good uses for that! Can you drive actions from a spreadsheet or table? The…",{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"29256900","nzach","This looks really interesting! Do you have any plans to port it to also run on Firefox?",[165,171,179],{"value":166,"source":57,"evidence":167},"Firefox support",[168,169,170],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},{"value":172,"source":57,"evidence":173},"Local save option instead of Google Drive",[174,175],{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"29282017","morbm","FYI you can run this tool locally, but it cannot save the results locally. It requires Google Drive to upload the data to a spreadsheet. File download\u002Fscreenshot does support…",{"value":180,"source":57,"evidence":181},"S3-compatible storage target",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"29260725","toomuchtodo","Something to consider is to support an s3 compatible target [1], so a user could target AWS, Backblaze, their own minio instance, etc. Of course don’t spend the cycles building…",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"29262892","dotancohen","I'm not (yet) a Browserflow user, but it's something that I'm going to either pitch or just skunk into my workflow. 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The ui.vision extension is roughly the same, but it runs locally (no cloud): https:\u002F\u002Fui.vision\u002Frpa\u002Fdocs\u002Fselenium-ide\u002Fcapturescreenshot",{"value":222,"source":57,"evidence":223},"Automa (free, open source)",[224],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},{"value":226,"source":57,"evidence":227},"UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate",[228,232],{"id":229,"by":230,"text":231},"29262281","visarga","Can you compare with UiPath?",{"id":233,"by":234,"text":235},"29258727","skrowl","Sounds similar to Microsoft Power Automate, though Power Automate works with browsers other than 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