Aside
The browser built to do real work for you
Details
- External ID
- 1246113
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Aside
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Web App, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence, YouTube
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Description
Aside is a Chromium browser with an agent built in - it signs into the sites you already use and finishes multi-step work there: email, dashboards, docs, messages. Ultrabrowse mode keeps working until the task is done. Memory lives on your device as editable markdown, and a built-in password manager autofills logins without exposing secrets to the model (Secure Enclave + audit log). Local-first with a free tier. Mac now, Windows in beta.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- browser with ai productivity features for work
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Forking or embedding Chromium with deep browser instrumentation, automated agentic navigation across arbitrary auth walls, and resilient DOM manipulation requires advanced systems programming and browser internals engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires customizing the Chromium codebase (C++) or building a custom Electron/CEF architecture with deep DevTools Protocol (CDP) hooks to manage persistent sessions and bypass bot detection. The agent execution engine requires robust DOM state-tree parsing, vision-grounded action planning, and reliable credential injection into sandboxed browser profiles. Engineers need extensive familiarity with C++, Chromium rendering pipelines, and security sandboxing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- aside-codemode · github · 2026-09-13 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- fresh-session-remote-browser · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- hexium-browser · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Do Not Distracted — Focus OS · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ZenPilot-multi account browser workspace · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Virgin Browser · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Fuwa · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Google Chrome Vertical Tabs · ph · 2026-04-08 · 377 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.