Resurf
realistic, reproducible test framework for AI browser agents
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Systematic testing of browser agents today is not easy: testing on real websites is flaky, rate-limited and potentially expensive (e.g. using proxies or bypassing Captcha), while static-HTML benchmarks lack state and dynamic behavior.Resurf gives your browser agent a realistic, stateful, instrumented framework — built on synthetic websites with failure-mode injection:- Realistic, dynamic, interactive environment - Deterministic & reproducible - Failure-mode injection (latency, payment errors, 5xx) - Auditable success eval (DB state, not LLM judge) - No dependency on live websites - Browser Use and Stagehand supported out of the box
HN · launched May 7, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent evaluation platforms · 182 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial The browser orchestration wrappers and test runner are straightforward, but building a reproducible, stateful, deterministic simulation environment of complex dynamic websites is fundamentally non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves Playwright/Puppeteer running against containerized mock web applications with seeded databases and record-replay HTTP proxies (e.g., Polly.js or custom Har-based interceptors). The hardest part is deterministic state management across asynchronous client-side events, animations, and non-deterministic third-party scripts. This requires experienced systems testing engineers with expertise in browser automation and sandboxing.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 370 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #338 of 371 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 185 days after the earliest competitor.
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