We have had a few interesting issues recently 1. We were helping one of our customers fill out some tax forms, and Skyvern failed to interact with the "yes" and "no" radio buttons because clicking the labels didn't work -- very unusual for websites

Faster workflow startup times Faster workflow startup times Usually performance fixes are a big meme. You get an app update and the release notes just say "performance improvements"... but WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? We make our performance improvements as obvious as they can get Any time I did

Why does YC keep talking about "launch early, launch often"? By default.. people don't know that you exist. It's your job to be the squeaky wheel, and let people know "HEY I EXIST", "HEY I CAN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM" You

Back in February.. I did my first podcast appearance ever with Mike Bifulco We had just decided we were going to open source.. but hadn't pulled the trigger yet It's crazy to watch it back and realize how big of a bet we were making. We

Landing page re-design We just released our new landing page at https://www.skyvern.com Our old one desperately needed a makeover. It was something I cooked up two nights before a launch. Even though it looked scrappy, it served its purpose well. Our potential customers were able to go

For anyone who's been following along our journey for the past 2 years.. you'll know it's been a long one We wouldn't be here today without the help of all of our friends (ie YOU) who rallied behind us in our super

HIPAA Compliance Skyvern is now HIPAA Compliant!! This has been a long time coming We've known that we would have to become HIPAA compliant for a long time. We kept talking to healthcare company after healthcare company.. all with the same painpoint "I need help integrating with

We just hit a milestone I never dreamed of – 6,000 Github stars ⭐️ I remember back in february we had heated discussions about whether we should Open Source Skyvern or not There were a ton of reasons not to do it: 1. What if someone stole our code? Rebranded it

Most startups send Investor updates to their investors. It's a great way to stay connected with the people who believed in you.. especially the ones that believed in you when nothing was working! It also holds you as a founder accountable. You're forced to write down

I remember I read a post from my friend Abhay a few months ago about juggling balls in your career. He mentioned that early on in your career, you admire the people that seem to always have their sh*t together. They have a ton of projects going on in

This is one of the hardest things I've had to learn as a founder. You set out to build products to help people and solve their problems. You cobble together a MVP, emphasis on the minimum, and launch it to a bunch of users If you're

New Prompting Guide We just released a new prompting guide: https://docs.skyvern.com/getting-started/prompting-guide It goes into detail talking about a few gotchas. For example, did you know: 1. Skyvern works the most reliably pairing prompts with (goal, completion criteria) pairs? 1. It turns out that LLMs are

Context Skyvern is an AI agent that helps companies automate workflows in the browser. We run leverage proxy networks and run headful browser instances in the cloud to facilitate most of our automations. 😱 200GB of proxy bandwidth was approximately $500 burned over the course of 6 hours One fatal morning

How to find ICPs to go after? This is a question I ask myself all the time. The answer is obvious, right? Who would find the most value out of Skyvern? When we first launched our product, we had no clue what kinds of things companies would want to automate

TL;DR We started using HTML instead of JSON to represent possible actions that Skyvern could take and reduced our cost by 11.8% and increased our success rate by 3.9% What’s Skyvern? Skyvern is an open source AI agent that helps companies automate browser-based workflows with AI.

GPT-4O-Mini We just launched GPT-4O-Mini support in Open Source Skyvern 🎉 OpenAI's hottest new model at a low low price-point of $0.15 / 1M input tokens.. compared to $5 / 1M input tokens for GPT-4O. https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/commit/ec5a0a03c094bfefb5fb810cefff94935532c9e2 Retry Tasks 📃Hot off the press – you can

TL;DR: We had a spike of traffic Monday (May 6th) morning, and we looked at our metrics to find out we got featured in a french newsletter and a viral tweet Monday Morning: Random burst of traffic Last Monday morning (May 6th), we woke up to a large burst

As some of you may know, Skyvern is actually our third attempt at building a startup, and we’ve made every mistake under the sun in our path to get to where we are. I’m happy to say that applying to YC was not one of them, as YC