Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers
Hi HN! We’re Marco and Shreya, founders of Simplex ( https://www.simplex.sh/ ). We’re building all the infrastructure you need for modern browser automation – including remote browsers, steerable web agents, and more. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/7KpWJbOcm1Y We’re excited to be posting on HN again! Back in January, we Show HN’d the earliest version of Simplex ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704160 ). We’ve now spent close to a year working with real customers, forward-deploying into their codebases, and building web agent systems for them from the ground up to understand what it takes to get agents working in production. We built Simplex because we started seeing a pattern: companies would initially roll their own Playwright/Stagehand web automation solutions. This worked fine in the early prototype stages, but they’d quickly
Why it failed
Hi HN! We’re Marco and Shreya, founders of Simplex ( https://www.simplex.sh/ ). We’re building all the infrastructure you need for modern browser automation – including remote browsers, steerable web agents, and more. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- marcon680
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews