<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.&lt;p&gt;No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.&lt;p&gt;Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.&lt;p&gt;So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastendguy</author><text>&amp;quot; you want to run it ... in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever&amp;quot; =&amp;gt; I agree. If security and&amp;#x2F;or privacy is an issue, better use a non SaaS solution. There are many options available, such as UIPath or UI.Vision, or simply Selenium if it is only about web automation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.&lt;p&gt;No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&amp;#x2F;cloud&amp;#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.&lt;p&gt;Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.&lt;p&gt;So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeSmithson</author><text>Are you able to say what part of the public sector you have worked with? I am interested in this area, I am sure it is a potential gold mine for productivity (and land mine!).</text></comment>