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  • Where have you found early traction with users? Why has your solution been useful for these users relevant to the other options?
    by ianm218
  • That looks great - I need to give it a try in my free time. Bot protections are obviously the biggest pain point and make these kind of autmations less reliable. We’re facing the same issues at monity.ai, and it requires constant work on improvements. Currently, we use headful Camoufox + residential proxies (cheap or more robust depending on the plan), and the results are pretty good.
    by kamilms21
  • In terms of ICP, there is a wonderful underbelly of scraper/drop/deliberate automation evasion resellers for basically every consumer product niche -- think shoes, watches, anything limited-edition, etc. These people mostly are building bots and constantly in a coy cat and mouse game with the sites they buy from to avoid blocks.

    Not only could this help them keep up with the new security features and redesigns, but they are more than willing to pay for a product that meaningfully improves overall success rate. You should look on twitter/discord for these kinds of groups, they are "reseller"-type communities.

    by Hasz
  • I'm always genuinely curious on how startups navigate the founder maze as it helps to break the myth of an overnight success story.

    Based on your YC page, you went through a couple of pivots over the last years:

    - 4 years ago: Intuned - The data assistant for engineering leaders [0]

    - 2 years ago: Intuned - The browser automation platform for developers and product teams [1]

    - 1 year ago: Intuned Auth Sessions - Build authenticated scrapers and RPA [2]

    What was kind of the evolution from YC S22 4 years ago till you arrived at today's launch? How did you find your differentiation in a highly commoditized space? Even within YC, there are many competitors like Firecrawl, Reworkd, BrowserUse, NotteLabs, Browserbase, etc.

    Another thing that might interest HN: AI crawlers come with negative side effects for website owners (costs, downtime, etc.), as repeatedly reported here on HN (and experienced myself).

    Does Intuned respect robots.txt directives and do you disclose the identity of your crawlers via user-agent header?

    [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gqr-intuned-the-data-as...

    [1]https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGE-intuned-the-browser...

    [2] https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lpq-intuned-auth-sessio...

    by jackienotchan
  • Congrats on launch. I have experienced these issues first hand with `Open Finance` a few years ago.

    I feel that you'll end up being an automation agency (you mentioned UiPath), companies who have the skills and capacity to build, will not need your service. But those who want the full service, you might fill a gap.

    I wish you all the best.

    by Oras
  • Biggest question I have is how this will overcome sites that implement aggressive anti-automation security. I can easily automate websites with existing tools until I slam into that wall.
    by trollbridge
  • Curious how you handle trust boundaries for tool outputs here. Do you keep a signed or replayable trace so a developer can audit what the agent saw before it acted?
    by xms17189
  • Really cool!

    I was reading the blog post about bot detection with browsers. The first layer being the IP address of the browser.

    One rather unique scenario I've been trying to work out for a scraper is eliminating network latency. My use of the site is enhanced by the request from the browser having the lowest RTT latency to the webserver as possible. This means being in the same cloud provider.

    To do this right now I manually navigate to the site and have a browser extension that clicks at just the right time.

    I'd really like to eliminate that manual navigation but every time I've tried adding browser automation outside of the single click from the extension, I'm immediately met with bot detection.

    Obviously adding a residential proxy step completely defeats the purpose of the RTT latency optimization.

    Do modified browsers drive the overall bot detection heuristic low enough that the cloud IP address itself isn't a red flag? I've seen Camoufox and will try it at some point. What other options are available to drive down the overall "score" so I can still automate the browser but keep the latency low?

    by bronco21016

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