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Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

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707 points namukang | 1 comments | 17 Nov 21 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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ghostbrainalpha ◴[17 Nov 21 20:54 UTC] No.29258692[source]▶
It's impressive. What's been the biggest challenge building it so far?
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1. dkthehuman ◴[18 Nov 21 03:54 UTC] No.29261818[source]▶
The biggest challenge has been getting over the "just one more feature..." trap and actually launching the thing. I still see so many areas for improvement, but it's nice to see that people appreciate how far it's come.

In terms of technical challenges, the biggest one by far has been creating flows that are reliable over time. Sites change all the time so having automation that's reliant on HTML structure, CSS classes, or pieces of text is inevitably going to be brittle, but I want to minimize how often flows break. Browserflow aims to generate flows that will remain stable for as long as possible, but there's certainly a lot of room for improvement.