Turtle
Web Browser written from scratch for 2 years
Details
- External ID
- 49340294
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
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- Website domain
- —
- Launched
- Aug. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
A few weeks ago I posted my solo browser projects and since I have received lots of messages asking the download link.I was a bit reluctant to release it since it's not at a stable level yet. However I finally decided to just put it out there as a pre-alpha since so many emails I have received.So now you can grab this pre-alpha from https://code.intellios.ai/cwbrowser/Note: Expect bugs, missing features, and crashes. Plenty of the web will render imperfectly or not at all. This is an early look, not a daily driver.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web browser built from scratch
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a functional web browser engine from scratch requires implementing massive HTML/CSS rendering engines, layout algorithms, JavaScript execution environments, and networking standards. This represents decades of complex systems programming that vibe coding cannot accomplish.
What it would actually take: Developing an independent browser engine requires a systems language (C++, Rust, or Zig) to build custom HTML/DOM parsers, CSS box model and layout tree calculators, a 2D rasterization pipeline (e.g., using Skia or WebGPU), and a JS engine binding (or custom JS interpreter). The hard part is the immense spec surface of web standards (W3C/WHATWG) and managing memory safety, concurrent rendering, and platform font/text shaping pipelines (HarfBuzz).
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Chrome, AI-based browsers and search engines
Concerns raised: Frequent rendering errors and crashes, Stability issues despite two years of development, Conventional browsers won't disappear soon, Unclear advantages over existing browser options
Feature requests: Linux/Ubuntu support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #65 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.
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- XHTML · hn · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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