[HN Gopher] Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser - a streaming web bro...
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Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser - a streaming web browser on every
website
Author : keepamovin
Score : 27 points
Date : 2024-04-04 09:16 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (browse.cloudtabs.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (browse.cloudtabs.net)
| Takennickname wrote:
| Very cool. But what for?
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| To make sure users have no agency over your site. The screen is
| just a bunch of pixels being streamed at you, no extensions, no
| view source, no agency. The purpose is to use web tech, without
| having to actually expose your site to the internet for real.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Could be useful for security isolation - browse any site you
| want, and if it manages to escape the browser sandbox it still
| doesn't get your real machine. Also could reduce the resources
| used locally; browsers with a lot of tabs are a RAM hog.
| keepamovin wrote:
| Adding to what the other comments say you can also:
|
| - whack it on a "Web Desktop"! See an example of it embedded
| here: https://puter.com/app/cloudtabs-browserbox
|
| - share the browser with other people (right click the
| "Browser" link from your signed in portal to copy that link
| then share it!) for real time collaboration in technical
| support, education, training, UI development, etc
|
| - use it to connect to an automation script / puppeteer robot
| to have a "human in the loop" intervention for solving a
| Captcha, or helping diagnose an issue, getting it unstuck
|
| - use it to capture replayable action sequences and screencasts
| for bug replay
|
| - use it to access devtools from a mobile device
|
| - use it to remotely view PDFs, DOCX, and explore archive
| formats
|
| - and many other creative uses from embedding a <BrowserView>
| in a webpage.
|
| We will provide a real API later, like: <script
| async src="...."></script> <cloudtabs-browser
| publishable-key="pk_live_..."></cloudtabs-browser>
| mrbluecoat wrote:
| *cough* accessing blocked sites at work *cough*
| keepamovin wrote:
| That too. Hahaha! :)
| saurik wrote:
| After "Browser Loaded", how long must I wait for something else
| to happen? (iOS 17.4, btw)
| keepamovin wrote:
| Sorry, the service are now at like 100% load. This is getting
| quite a hit.
|
| If you get a delay there, you can try reloading.
|
| I'll try adding some more servers if we're going to be on the
| front page.
|
| I'm bringing up a new server in the US region now. Should be 10
| minutes, hopefully will soak up the load
| xiekomb wrote:
| Remote Browser Isolation is interesting for several use cases.
| Your demo unfortunately does not work on iOS
| keepamovin wrote:
| Oh! It should work. What doesn't work? I'm testing it on iOS
| all the time.
|
| Which version are you?
| keepamovin wrote:
| Ok a new server in US region is up.
|
| Unfortunately the disk filled up on the Europe server and
| Canadian server. I had to nuke all the Ephemeral sessions.
| Capability should be back now. OS told me disk was 100.0% used
| when I logged in.
|
| It was all tempfs mounted for each user. I never realized its
| importance. Will need bigger disks.
|
| I'll add some timed updates to keep things organized below this
| point:
|
| 17:57:00 Z
|
| Will add 2 new 32 core servers in Europe, and Asia, as both those
| regions are seeing lots of demand. Asia is at 100% right now.
|
| 18:03:00 Z
|
| Just started creation of the Japan server. Once I get the install
| script started, I'll move to create the Europe one.
|
| 18:18:00 Z
|
| Okay, Japan server should be online. Sorry about everybody in SEA
| that I just nuked your sessions, that must have sucked. The
| server was hard to manage at 100% utilization. Moving to create a
| new Europe server now.
|
| 18:26:00 Z
|
| Okay Europe server is provisioned and setup is starting now. It
| should be live in about 10 minutes.
|
| 18:32:00 Z
|
| London server is live. Stats update: since posting to HN 2 hours
| ago we had about 2000 sessions across (initially) 4 16core 32GB
| 128disk servers. So far have had to add 3 more 32/64/1TB servers,
| with disk being the unexpected cost to this type of load. BTW if
| anyone is reading this how was your experience? Was it slow/fast?
| Responsive? What region were you in?
|
| 18:42:00 Z
|
| I'm monitoring the 7 servers now.
|
| 18:48:00 Z
|
| Right now server selection is based on RTT/ping from client. I'm
| thinking it might be good to have ping endpoint include the
| current load. But I don't want to bork it.
|
| 19:31:00 Z
|
| Okay, load average has been added to the ping check for fastest
| server. We now pick between the fastest two pings based on which
| has the lowest load. Should work well.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Is there an about page I'm missing? Or somewhere to see pricing
| info, or... anything that's not the actual app?
|
| (Regardless, it's cool, and does in fact seem to work pretty
| well)
| riedel wrote:
| The ToS links this: https://dosyago.com/
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| I saw, but that seems to be a different thing? I was assuming
| that was the actual underlying software, not this service
| keepamovin wrote:
| Click on "CloudTabs Home" from the browser to get taken to the
| Signup area. Inside there it's a normal basic "SaaS" looking
| app profile with:
|
| - My Plan (pricing info and subscribe / manage)
|
| - About (including roadmap / impressum)
|
| - Settings (for now just the home page!)
|
| etc
|
| :)
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| I'm not fond of having to create an account in order to see
| information about the product, especially pricing. (Yes, I
| understand that creating an account doesn't take money, but
| that doesn't make it a zero-cost action)
| keepamovin wrote:
| That's a fair point. It's just as simple single page
| (literally) SPA so one 'solution' is to just look at the
| HTML file.
|
| But I'll post a link to the Stripe pricing table on a
| separate page for convenience (maybe just remove all the
| display: none) styles of the other SPA sections on a long
| scroll 'about everything' page. Good point! Wait a minute
| for a link...
|
| _edit: Here you go!_
|
| CloudTabs - About Everything:
| https://browse.cloudtabs.net/about-everything
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| That looks good:)
| theogravity wrote:
| Our product, Switchboard, also has this feature but it's part of
| a larger collaborative experience where you can share the
| browsers (yes multiple on the canvas) with other users in the
| same workspace:
|
| https://www.switchboard.app/
|
| Note: We only support Chrome-based browsers at the moment. This
| will hopefully change this year.
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