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Skyvern
Company blog · skyvern.com/blogaiprogramming
Skyvern is the company blog at skyvern.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Product page for Skyvern, an LLM-driven browser agent that carries out web tasks. Commenters link it as an example of browser agents and compare it with similar tools such as Browser Use.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Skyvern automates browser workflows with AI. No brittle selectors, no maintenance. Automate logins, form fills, data extraction, and more across any website.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
What Hacker News says?
I mean at its core operating a bank account, an email and a calendar is just running operations on a browser. LLM's can do that (ex: https://www.skyvern.com or https://www.gumloop.com ). edit: Though more generally, I can see a future where all these operations are essentially different functions in a function calling system.
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on “Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions”Submitted Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right? as a story · 150 points
HN discussionDoes anyone have experience comparing this to Skyvern[0]? I originally thought the $30/month would be the killer feature, but it's only $30 worth of credits. Otherwise they both seem to have the same offering [0] https://www.skyvern.com/
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on “Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents”Submitted Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster as a story · 22 points
HN discussionYes, I played around with Skyvern and it works really well! https://www.skyvern.com/ https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern
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on “GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Generally Available”Submitted Getting Claude to QA its own work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been working on browser agent the last week[1]. So this is very exciting. There are also browser agent implementations like Skyvern[2] (Also YC backed) ,or Tarsier[3] Seems like, finic is providing a way to scale/schedule these agents? If that's the case what's the advantage over something like airflow or windmill ? If I remember correctly, Skyvern also has an implementation of scaling these browser tasks built…
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on “Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations”Submitted Deleting RAG from our web agent made it 2.3x faster as a story · 2 points
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