Vibium
Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
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i started the selenium project 21 years ago. vibium is what i'd build if i started over today with ai agents in mind. go binary under the hood (handles browser, bidi, mcp) but devs never see it. just npm install vibium. python/java coming. for claude code: claude mcp add vibium -- npx -y vibium v1 ships today. ama.
HN · launched Dec 24, 2025 · 443 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: browser automation tools · 71 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 71 launches in browser automation tools →
Could you build this?
No Building a cross-platform browser automation engine that implements WebDriver BiDi protocols and integrates MCP via compiled Go binaries requires deep browser internals and low-level protocol engineering expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires deep systems programming in Go to implement the W3C WebDriver BiDi protocol and manage headless browser processes directly via low-level IPC or WebSocket connections. It demands packaging cross-platform Go binaries inside an npm distribution package and handling MCP (Model Context Protocol) server primitives. Building this necessitates specialized browser automation systems knowledge, low-level process management, and cross-platform native compilation.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Playwright, Selenium, Chrome DevTools MCP, Stagewright, browser-use
Concerns raised: Generates errors, PR in progress to fix, Not production-ready yet (v1), Single maintainer sustainability concerns, Indirect prompt injection attacks from malicious web pages, Accidental click-through to unrelated websites during testing
Feature requests: First-class credential injection API support, Deterministic 2FA handling with local OTP extraction, Easy sandboxing for automation to prevent unintended navigation, Multi-language support beyond TypeScript/JavaScript (Java, Python priority)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Nimbus · hn · 2026-04-24 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Intuned - Code-first browser automation, built and maintained by AI · yc · 2026-04-15 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library · hn · 2026-05-09 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Grafizum · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Nabsun · ph · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Basium · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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