Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers

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Learn how to use Simplex, a browser automation platform, to streamline web automation tasks and improve development efficiency

intermediate Published 2 Oct 2025
Action Steps
  1. Sign up for a Simplex account and explore the platform's features
  2. Watch the demo video to understand how Simplex works
  3. Use Simplex to automate a simple browser task, such as filling out a form
  4. Integrate Simplex with existing development tools, such as Playwright or Stagehand
  5. Deploy Simplex to a production environment and monitor its performance
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and DevOps teams can benefit from using Simplex to automate browser interactions and improve testing and deployment workflows

Key Insight

💡 Simplex provides a scalable and reliable browser automation platform for developers, reducing the complexity of web automation tasks

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Key Takeaways

Learn how to use Simplex, a browser automation platform, to streamline web automation tasks and improve development efficiency

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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 get overwhelmed with technical challenges as they productionized automations across all the websites
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