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Nimbus

Browser with Claude Code UX

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Hi HN, I'm Anil. Nimbus is a desktop browser with an AI agent built into it. The UX is shamelessly inspired by Claude Code: a chat bar at the bottom, an agent log above it, and the webpage itself when its needed.This is mainly a UX experiment for me. And also the reason it isn't a Chrome extension: once you have a chat bar that understands intent, the URL field is redundant. You shouldn't have two places to tell the browser what you want. I didn't want to bolt an agent onto an existing browser's chrome and end up with duplicated controls everywhere — I wanted full freedom to redesign the shell from scratch, decide what stays, what goes, and what a browser even looks like when the agent is the primary interface. Download for macOS: https://usenimbus.app Launch video: https://youtu.be/dj23-XIiB1o

HN · launched Apr 24, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views

Niche: ai browser agents · 105 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Building an AI-assisted browser shell combining a Webview (via Electron or Tauri) with a chat sidebar and browser automation scripts (CDP/Playwright) is well within the scope of modern AI-assisted development.

Discussion

5 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Claude Code (ask-user tool approach), Other AI browsers, Chrome extensions/browser forks

Concerns raised: How it differs from existing AI browsers, Whether UX changes lead to different usage patterns

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 376 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #148 of 377 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 163 days after the earliest competitor.

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