Brw
better than Claude chrome
Details
- External ID
- 49604261
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Brw
- Website domain
- donworks.co.uk
- Launched
- Sept. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Description
Cross harness browser automation. Beats Claude chrome. Allows remote over ssh (view it working on your laptop whilst your big rig does the AI bit).
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai chrome extension alternative to claude
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While standard browser automation wrappers are easy to assemble, building a robust, low-latency control harness with stable semantic ref tracking, delta state reporting, and cross-platform native profiles requires solid systems and protocol-level expertise.
What it would actually take: Building brw requires a daemon speaking directly to the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) or WebDriver BiDi, instrumenting the DOM tree to generate persistent accessibility/role-based IDs, and streaming mutation observers over local HTTP/MCP sockets. The hard parts are handling multi-process browser lifecycle, anti-detection/stealth, and reliable deterministic recipe replay across browser updates.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 87 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 88 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Otto · hn · 2026-06-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- Pluno · ph · 2026-06-30 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Chrome ext to let zot, your terminal coding agent, operate the browser · hn · 2026-05-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Letting Claude automate fleets of browser sandboxes · hn · 2026-03-03 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.