[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":828},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-44329457":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":50,"post_text":52,"what":53,"said":97,"maker_in_thread":231,"shape":242,"grid":246,"attempts":789,"same_week":790,"maker_shows":385,"maker_hidden":820,"reader_version":821,"card":822},"44329457","Nxtscape","an open-source agentic browser","title","Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnxtscape\u002Fnxtscape","github.com","felarof",1750437355,2025,314,206,167,3837,5,"legend","productivity","agentic browser","desktop_app",[21,24,25,26,27],"open source browser","local llm","chromium fork","ai browser automation","mixed",-0.284,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},12,41,3,40,96,{"idea":37,"privacy":40,"design":43,"execution":45,"pricing":48,"performance":49},{"positive":38,"critical":39},8,17,{"positive":41,"critical":42},0,7,{"positive":41,"critical":44},10,{"positive":46,"critical":47},2,1,{"positive":41,"critical":46},{"positive":41,"critical":47},[18,18,33,33,47,41,47,47,46,41,46,46,33,47,46,47,41,41,41,41,33,51,33,47,51,46,47,46,33,51,47,33,33,47,33,47,33,46,47,47],4,"Hi HN - we're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers and founders of nxtscape.ai (YC S24). We're building Nxtscape (\"next-scape\") - an open-source, agentic browser for the AI era.\n\n-- Why bother building a new browser? For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels like we can reimagine browsers from scratch for the age of AI agents. The web browser of tomorrow might not look like what we have today.\n\nWe saw how tools like Cursor gave developers a 10x productivity boost, yet the browser—where everyone else spends their entire workday—hasn't fundamentally changed.\n\nAnd honestly, we ",{"problem":54,"audience":60,"pricing":61,"motivation":67,"time_to_build":60,"stack":71,"openness":94,"stage":95,"team_size":96},{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Browsers are frustrating for heavy tab use and repetitive web tasks","maker",[58],{"id":59},"post",null,{"value":62,"source":56,"evidence":63},"Enterprise version planned; core open source",[64],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"44343680","for local LLM, you can download ollama and you can download 4B or 8B variants. Reg. first part, our thinking right now is similar to other OSS projects, we will have enterprise…",{"value":68,"source":56,"evidence":69},"Browsers have not changed despite AI; the maker wants an AI-first browser",[70],{"id":59},[72,76,82,88],{"value":73,"source":56,"evidence":74},"Chromium (fork)",[75],{"id":59},{"value":77,"source":56,"evidence":78},"Puppeteer via Chrome DevTools Protocol",[79],{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"44329801","Today, we connect to chrome using CDP and use Puppeteer to send clicks and other operations. Also, using browser use DOM tree highlighting, which works great. To get the page…",{"value":83,"source":56,"evidence":84},"Ollama for local models",[85],{"id":86,"by":11,"text":87},"44330060","> 100% runs locally Thank you! We have ollama integration already, you can run models locally and use that for AI chat.",{"value":89,"source":56,"evidence":90},"PostgreSQL for local storage",[91],{"id":92,"by":11,"text":93},"44332584","Thank you so much for your honest feedback. I 100% agree - this is spot on! This is exactly the vision we had. We spend 90%+ of our time in browsers, yet they're still basically…","open_source","beta","team",{"praise":98,"objections":111,"requests":152,"questions":173,"alternatives":197},[99],{"value":100,"source":101,"evidence":102},"Local-first agentic browser concept is compelling","commenter",[103,107],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"44332197","kevinsync","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…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"44332537","ajb","I 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. 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Great product though.",{"value":131,"source":101,"evidence":132},"Chat interface is poor for productivity tasks",[133,137],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"44331896","dvt","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…",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"44333635","varenc","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…",{"value":142,"source":101,"evidence":143},"Only macOS build so far",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"44329949","OsrsNeedsf2P","Is this only for MacOS? If it's a Chromium fork, what's the reason for no Linux\u002FWindows? Also what's the business model?",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"44329661","jklinger410","What is with Mac users forking Chromium and then only making releases for Mac?",[153,161,169],{"value":154,"source":101,"evidence":155},"Windows and Linux builds",[156,160],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"44331154","shortrounddev2","Windows",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"value":162,"source":101,"evidence":163},"Undo for browser actions",[164,165],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"44329734","b0a04gl","so 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?",{"value":170,"source":101,"evidence":171},"Ability to ungroup tabs",[172],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},[174,181,189],{"value":175,"source":101,"evidence":176},"What is an agentic browser?",[177],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"44330118","hannob","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…",{"value":182,"source":101,"evidence":183},"Business model",[184,185],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"44339808","admiralrohan","1. How will you earn money? Sustainig the project? 2. Which LLM is used? Only \"local LLM\" is mentioned. Hardware requirements?",{"value":190,"source":101,"evidence":191},"Which LLMs are supported and hardware requirements",[192,193],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"44330241","mahoro","This is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?",[198,209,213,217,224],{"value":199,"source":101,"evidence":200},"Dia",[201,205],{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"44329810","_fw","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…",{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"44331571","deepdarkforest","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\u002F3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the…",{"value":210,"source":56,"evidence":211},"Perplexity",[212],{"id":59},{"value":214,"source":101,"evidence":215},"Brave",[216],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},{"value":218,"source":101,"evidence":219},"Nanobrowser",[220],{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"44337429","Tsarp","Why not something like https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnanobrowser\u002Fnanobrowser. Its kinda built really well without exposing webdriver etc and can comfortably run js and communicate with…",{"value":225,"source":101,"evidence":226},"Browser Use",[227,228],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},{"id":229,"by":11,"text":230},"44331795","Oh that's from browser use buildDOMTree.js. check it out on their github.",{"comments":232,"answered":233,"key":234},37,22,[235,236,239],{"id":92,"text":93},{"id":237,"text":238},"44330229","Thanks for asking - not a stupid question at all! I should have probably explained it at the top of my post. By \"agentic browser\" we basically mean a browser with AI agents that…",{"id":240,"text":241},"44330661","Yes, eventually we think there is more value of owning the entire stack than just be a MCP connector. 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