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Comet Browser by Perplexity

comet.perplexity.ai

36 pointsRobinL19 comments

"Only available to the people paying $200/month"...nothing to see here

we have an open-source alternative that is ready to download -- https://browseros.com/

Cool. Where is the line skipper link for Hacker News users to see your comments?

Edit: My bad. One can exchange the download via email.

This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, still with no hint of the product.

I'm perplexed too

It seems like they just took a template and forgot to remove that part. It doesn't make any sense

Seems like they should focus on creating a reason that I would need their search instead of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok etc. Already dropped the 20$/month subscription; not sure why I’d need it.

Citations! Perplexity does the best job with references.

Also labs seems superior to artifacts / canvas because it incorporates research in advance of building apps, enabling it to gather data for the app and check docs

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Perplexity Comet 31 points by birriel | 41 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513769

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510913

Anyone know how they are building this? Is it a fork of chromium?

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Bring back comet cursor!

We just need a software that renders the f**ing html/css, that's all. Everyone please stop creating new browsers.

LOL. This is the worst page for a product I've ever seen. No information, no screenshots. Just facts about the planets in our Solar system. Not even all the planets, where's Mercury and Venus? Not even talking about how it fails to sell me on this browser. It can't even give me planet facts properly. Companies should stop pushing their landing page work to some unpaid intern who -probably- in turn put this together from a template. I'll stick with vanilla Firefox, thank you very much.

"We wanna get data, even outside the app to better understand you," [...] "What are the things you’re buying, which hotels are you going [to], which restaurants are you going to, what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you."

Good luck with that. Chrome on steroids.

Quote is from perplexity's CEO in case it isn’t obvious.

Fun thing is I'm actually onboard with that if all said data stays local and in my control. I can understand why it's beneficial to providing a more useful experience, but also very concerned about the potential negative externalities.

Sadly that doesn't seem to be the direction we're headed in, but I could happily get behind proprietary models that run on my machine/infrastructure - I'd always prefer OSS but the key issue with generative AI as it stands today (for me) is data privacy/sovereignty.

I want to use these tools to accelerate my progress, I don't want to hand over my business ideas, or personal life to the void to be seen by quality checkers and so forth.

The balance I'm striking at the moment is experimenting heavily with them for my OSS work, since it's in the public domain regardless, and being very cautious around anything more commercial.

Yep. He isn't even trying to hide it. Don't touch this thing with a 10ft pole

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