Comet Browser by Perplexity

"Only available to the people paying $200/month"...nothing to see here

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.

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.

we have an open-source alternative that is ready to download -- https://browseros.com/

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Perplexity Comet 31 points by birriel | 41 comments

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

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Anyone know how they are building this? Is it a fork of chromium?

Bring back comet cursor!

"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.