Nxtscape
Productivity
agentic browser
SHOW HN2025
314points
206comments
#167of 3,837 in 2025
Top 5%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 41 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 40 critical, out of 96 comments about the project. Thread score -0.28.
Idea: 8 for, 17 againstDesign: 0 for, 10 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 7 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Local-first agentic browser concept is compelling
From 2 comments
IMO comments so far seem to be not seeing the forest for the trees -- I can imagine incredible value for myself in a browser that hooks into a local LLM, writes everything it…
kevinsync on HNI think there is big value in something that is on the side of the user, in particular in processing user-hostile material. Here are some concrete use cases: * Buying a sofa. You…
ajb on HN
Objections
Security risk from prompt injection with agents in a logged-in browser
From 1 comment
On the one hand: an agentic browser sounds like a cool idea. Being able to automate things with an agent on the client side is crazy powerful. On the other hand: this has the…
mullingitover on HN
Name is too similar to Netscape and hard to say
From 2 comments
Sounds like a pretty clear case of trademark infringement. Nxtscape is very confusingly similar to Netscape.
blindriver on HN“nxtscape” gives the good old "SCSI" vibes. People just nailed “GPT”. Please consider something you can say in one breath. Great product though.
lecro on HN
Chat interface is poor for productivity tasks
From 2 comments
Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should…
dvt on HNThis is quite cool! Very excited for this concept. Kudos to launching on HN! some genuine feedback on a frustrating early experience: - I ran the suggested "Group all my tabs by…
varenc on HN
Only macOS build so far
From 2 comments
Is this only for MacOS? If it's a Chromium fork, what's the reason for no Linux/Windows? Also what's the business model?
OsrsNeedsf2P on HNWhat is with Mac users forking Chromium and then only making releases for Mac?
jklinger410 on HN
Requests
Windows and Linux builds
From 2 comments
Windows
shortrounddev2 on HNIs this only for MacOS? If it's a Chromium fork, what's the reason for no Linux/Windows? Also what's the business model?
OsrsNeedsf2P on HN
Undo for browser actions
From 2 comments
This is quite cool! Very excited for this concept. Kudos to launching on HN! some genuine feedback on a frustrating early experience: - I ran the suggested "Group all my tabs by…
varenc on HNso agents can control tabs, forms, clicks—like a real user would.so what about undo. if an agent clicks the wrong thing, how do you roll that back without reloading the world?
b0a04gl on HN
Ability to ungroup tabs
From 1 comment
This is quite cool! Very excited for this concept. Kudos to launching on HN! some genuine feedback on a frustrating early experience: - I ran the suggested "Group all my tabs by…
varenc on HN
Questions
What is an agentic browser?
From 1 comment
Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: what is an agentic browser? You seem to assume that everyone knows what that means. Is this a common and well-defined term that people…
hannob on HN
Business model
From 2 comments
Is this only for MacOS? If it's a Chromium fork, what's the reason for no Linux/Windows? Also what's the business model?
OsrsNeedsf2P on HN1. How will you earn money? Sustainig the project? 2. Which LLM is used? Only "local LLM" is mentioned. Hardware requirements?
admiralrohan on HN
Which LLMs are supported and hardware requirements
From 2 comments
1. How will you earn money? Sustainig the project? 2. Which LLM is used? Only "local LLM" is mentioned. Hardware requirements?
admiralrohan on HNThis is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?
mahoro on HN
Alternatives named
Dia
From 2 comments
I’m using Dia a lot for work at the moment and frankly it’s a gamechanger. granted I’m not a developer but being able to interact with an LLM that has access to the page I’m on…
_fw on HNThis is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the…
deepdarkforest on HN
Perplexity
From 1 comment
Brave
From 1 comment
Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should…
dvt on HN
Nanobrowser
From 1 comment
Why not something like https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser. Its kinda built really well without exposing webdriver etc and can comfortably run js and communicate with…
Tsarp on HN
Browser Use
From 2 comments
This is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the…
deepdarkforest on HNOh that's from browser use buildDOMTree.js. check it out on their github.
felarof on HN