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1. For a low competition market I am looking at browser automation of user interaction. I recently created an original solution for a niche set of problems that incidentally solves many other more common problems.

2. The cool thing about this space is that it isn’t new technology that delivers 10x improvements. The opposite actually. 10x improvements are found by doing the least possible effort in a tiny library, scaling to support a wider problem space, and doing it substantial better than large products present in the marketplace.

The few competitors are easy to search but most of the commercial products are so expensive that it’s hard to really gauge the precise performance capabilities are the smaller players without a large financial investment.

3. I am just now learning about second order effects from this thing as I extend it to support execution across networks/VMs. There are all manner of second order surprises that emerge from better software automation.



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