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Yep! If you go to settings in the app you can pick your personal plan.


what was the website? happy to help figure out your issue, you can also start a chat with us in the app (top left)


We work with fortune 500 companies and have HIPAA compliant offerings, so we are very sensitive to privacy and security concerns. Fundamentally the models need to operate on whatever browser tasks users ask Autotab to perform, and we need to use frontier vision models like 4o and Claude to reliably perform them (model providers are the affiliates in question). If you have specific concerns happy to answer them.


Your response doesn't seem to address the Privacy concerns raised. Why is the policy so broad and invasive? There's no mention of how you handle PII data collected as telemetry.


Thanks for the note, we will try to make the install instructions clearer. The desktop app is available via a download button on the homepage: https://autotab.com


sorry you encountered that issue! what website was the form on? we'll see if we can catch the error!

curious what you mean by generating the workflow that you run on your own hardware? Is this different than running Autotab locally?


Hah, looks like you guys found my account error via my profile email, nice! Thanks for fixing that bug. I'll try again tomorrow when the fix is pushed.

My other request is probably not in line with your business model. I get the sense that Autotab is always communicating with some server on your end, probably for the various bits of AI functionality. What I was asking for is the ability to export the actions/workflow as, say, a python script (like a Selenium script, or even better, a script which drives your browser) which performs the actions in the Autotab workflow.

I need AI understanding when creating the workflow, or healing in case of an error, but I don't always need it when just executing a prepared script. In those (non AI needed) cases, I don't really want to use up my runtime minutes just because I'm executing a previously generated workflow.


Yep exactly. Authentication is primarily handled with session data, so passwords never leave your device, but we also support setting secrets.

Here is more info on auth and security: https://docs.autotab.com/manual/security

For 2FA, different users take different approaches. Everything from teaching Autotab to pull auth codes from their email, to setting intervention requests at the top of their skills, to enterprise integrations that we support with SSO and dedicated machine accounts.


Curious, what would you be interested in using Autotab for?


Automating the creation of test orders in our Ecom and ERP tools is one possible use case I can think of, though I’m sure I’d find others in my day to day (possibly around some of the rote tasks I have in Confluence or DevOps)


That sounds like a really good use case! we're constrained by model costs but are interested in offering a lower cost plan – if you email me I'll see what we can do [email protected]


We have unlimited free editing, so you can fully try everything out and know your skill will work before we ask you to subscribe. You also get 5m of free runtime. Subscriptions start at $39/month with 300 minutes of runtime included.

Right now we do not let you BYO llm, but it's something we would love to provide an option for where possible!


5 minutes seems like barely enough time to complete any given task, let alone actually try it out. $40/mo for a capped plan seems steep, but maybe I'm not your target customer. Best of luck!


The free edit mode has all of the features of run mode, and lets you fully test the skill. The only difference is that inside of a loop it will ask you to click to continue.

A lot of AI tools promise the world and don't deliver. We explicitly don't want anyone to pay us until they're sure Autotab can do their task, even though the model costs during editing are actually much higher than during runtime.


Autotab (YC S23) | https://autotab.com | Founding Engineer | NYC

If AGI is going to 100x GDP, it will need to be able to use a computer.

Autotab is the first digital robot that controls a computer like a human. It excels at the highly repetitive tasks that make up the worst parts of modern knowledge work. If we succeed, we will provide the platform that unlocks the next 100x productivity increase, and frees humans from trillions of hours of soul-crushing work.

We are second time founders backed by OpenAI and YCombinator. We are live in production and are working with some of the biggest companies you use every day to handle critical tasks that humans used to do. We’re rapidly scaling up to meet demand, and building a 5-person founding team where everyone builds product and talks to users.

If you are technical and have founded or want to start a company we should talk!

More info: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autotab/jobs/V5V8saO-f...

apply: email [email protected]


Note that this is a duplicate of a listing a different founder of this company posted here, except it omits the “6 days a week in the office” language. Applicants beware!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40225546


Working on this layer at https://autotab.com. This sounds like an amazing problem for browser automation to solve, would love to talk with you if you’re interested!


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