Browserbase

“If you want to move extremely fast as a company, one of the hard parts about having co-founders is that there's like, you have to do the co-founder alignment and then the company alignment. And then there's people on the team that probably tell things to one c…”

“When you make people make a polarizing decision of like, I will come to an office five days a week, people then end up making more decisions that are aligned with the culture. So it's almost like if you can make your culture binary or you're in or out, It beco…”

“If you're building applications that rely on a browser and it's more part of a greater like AI app experience, you probably need something that's more like infrastructure, not a consumer app.”

“Culturally, like we're fully in-person. Maybe that's one crazy take that we do, but we're also like not too in-person. Like our first meeting's at 10 a.m. People leave around five or six. We work Monday to Friday in-person, and those like, that's the expectati…”

“I actually think that off is the biggest thing that will prevent agents from accessing stuff, not captures.”

“And, you know, three from Stitch is an investor, Colin from Clark. Okta Ventures, all investors in BrowserBase because like, I hope they solve this because it'll make BrowserBase's mission more possible.”

“If you're building a scraping company, StageChan's not your thing. You probably want something that's gonna, like, get HTML content, you know, convert that to Markdown, query it. That's not what StageChan does. StageChan's more, more about reliability.”

“For tools and primitives with sufficient levels of complexity, you need to have a solution that's really bespoke to that primitive, you know, and I am sufficiently convinced that the browser is complex enough to deserve a primitive.”

“Browsers are a core primitive of infrastructure for the LLMOS that's going to exist in the future”

“If you're building web scraping workflows, what you should do is have a waterfall. You should have the first request is a curl to the website. See if you can get it without even using a browser. And then the second request may be like a scraping specific API. …”

“BrowserBase can run browsers for way cheaper than you can if you're running a full-fledged OS with a GUI, you know, operating system. And I think that's just an advantage of the browser. It is like, browsers are like little OSs, and you can run them very effic…”

“I can predict that Browserbase will be a billion dollar company one day. So let's check back in five years.”

“Our biggest competitor actually is partly owned by private equity, and they just jacked up their prices quite a bit, and the dashboard hasn't changed in five years”

“The future of software is software using software.”

“We used to be a giant Fargate customer. Actually, the first version of BrowserBase was ECS and Fargate. And I unfortunately it's a great product. I think we were actually the largest Fargate customer in our region for a little while.”

“I think there'll be agent off in the future. I don't know if it's going to happen from an individual company, but actually authentication providers that have a You know, hidden login as agent feature, which will then you put in your email. You'll get a push no…”

“Culturally, we're a lot of like former YCCTOs and like ex-founders or future founders. And I've just found that those people tend to be just really great early hires for a company. They get it.”

“I think that using mouse click or mouse coordinates, I've seen that proved to be less reliable than I would like. And I just wonder if that's the right form factor. What we've done with our framework is Anchor it to the DOM itself. Anchor it to the actual item…”

“And hopefully find the right answer and then say, okay, this was actually the right one and memorize that and go there in the future on the roadmap for sure.”

“I'm in AI grant, you know, browsers was an AI grant, but we were the only company in that AI grant batch that used zero dollars on AI spend.”

“Like, BrowserBase is actually pretty close to our first birthday, so we are one years old, and going from, you know, Starting a company as a solo founder to, you know, having a team of 20 people, you know, a series A, but also being able to support hundreds of…”