Comet Browser by Perplexity

23 RobinL 14 7/9/2025, 3:48:57 PM comet.perplexity.ai ↗

Comments (14)

sleepytimetea · 19h ago
"Only available to the people paying $200/month"...nothing to see here
felarof · 14h ago
we have an open-source alternative that is ready to download -- https://browseros.com/
Brajeshwar · 10h ago
Cool. Where is the line skipper link for Hacker News users to see your comments?

Edit: My bad. One can exchange the download via email.

pona-a · 18h ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, still with no hint of the product.

goriv · 47m ago
It seems like they just took a template and forgot to remove that part. It doesn't make any sense
dalmo3 · 10h ago
I'm perplexed too
steve-atx-7600 · 13h ago
Seems like they should focus on creating a reason that I would need their search instead of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok etc. Already dropped the 20$/month subscription; not sure why I’d need it.
bionhoward · 12h ago
Citations! Perplexity does the best job with references.

Also labs seems superior to artifacts / canvas because it incorporates research in advance of building apps, enabling it to gather data for the app and check docs

pona-a · 18h ago
See more discussion here:

Perplexity Comet 31 points by birriel | 41 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513769

k-i-r-t-h-i · 18h ago
Anyone know how they are building this? Is it a fork of chromium?
eamag · 23h ago
403 Forbidden
bitbasher · 17h ago
Bring back comet cursor!
jasonvorhe · 18h ago
"We wanna get data, even outside the app to better understand you," [...] "What are the things you’re buying, which hotels are you going [to], which restaurants are you going to, what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you."

Good luck with that. Chrome on steroids.

steve-atx-7600 · 13h ago
Quote is from perplexity's CEO in case it isn’t obvious.