Vibium
Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
Details
- External ID
- 46377597
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vibium
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 24, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 443
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.982824427480916
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- browser automation for ai and humans
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 41 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 42 (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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- Intuned - Code-first browser automation, built and maintained by AI · yc · 2026-04-15 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library · hn · 2026-05-09 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Nabsun · ph · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- BrowserAct Cloud · ph · 2026-08-14 · 287 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Webctl · hn · 2026-01-14 · 134 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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- No other launches for this product.
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