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Congrats on the launch! Look forward to playing around with it.

I remember a similar startup making quite a splash on HN a few years ago — http://www.kimonolabs.com/. Do you know why they shut it down and what you guys are doing differently?

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Thank you! Kimono Labs built an amazing product and has been finally acquired by Palantir. The main difference between us comes from our machine learning model that gives stability to extraction over time and parse webpages in a generic way. We are also working on automating navigation, which is something they didn't do =)

Very nice :)

How would you compare to something like UiPath? Congrats on the launch.

UiPath and others RPA actors allow their users to mainly automate local processes on Windows. We are cross-platform and focusing on the web, which makes us useful for other use-cases like gathering data or automating navigation sessions!

They were acquired by Palantir.

Seems like the team decided to stop working on it, and that it was an acquihire:

> we’ve realized that continuing to work in isolation on a general data collection tool simply won’t allow us to make the impact we want

Curious to hear the Dashblock vision in comparison :)

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