Asteroid - AI browser agents for your back office, built in seconds
Asteroid lets anyone build highly custom, complex AI browser agents. Both non-technical users and engineers can now reliably automate back office browser tasks 20x faster with Asteroid’s web-based agent builder, API integration, and more.
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Asteroid
👋🏻 Hi Product Hunt makers!
We're David & Joe, co-founders of Asteroid-a platform for building powerful AI browser agents.
We launched with YC in February, received incredible interest, and spent six months battle-testing our browser agents with startups and enterprises to automate their back offices.
We were so impressed by the agents our customers built that we decided to open the platform. Now anyone can reliably automate any browser tasks!
..But wait, everyone—from AI labs and startups to your grandmother—is racing to create the ultimate browser agent for one-off tasks. So how's Asteroid different?
Our users taught us something important: they don't want one "do-everything" agent that breaks half the time. They want hundreds of specialized, rock-solid agents—each built in minutes and running flawlessly day after day.
We believe domain experts—not just engineers—should easily build reliable, customizable agents to truly unlock AI-driven automation. That insurance broker manually pulling quotes from 12 different portals? They should be able to build their own agent in 10 minutes, not spend hours explaining every click to a developer.
We now serve dozens of teams automating critical yet repetitive back-office tasks. This includes startups effortlessly integrating voice agents with legacy systems, corporations automating entire back offices, and developers embedding powerful browser automation within their products.
Real-world Asteroid use cases running in production:
✍️ Insurance Quoting: Auto-filling complex forms across numerous providers.
🏥 Medical Appointments: Automating patient data entry into healthcare systems.
🧾 Invoice Retrieval: Logging into supplier portals to find and download invoices.
📊 Reporting to Google Sheets: Collecting data from dashboards for analytics.
🏛️ Grant Applications: Completing intricate forms reliably at scale.
🎙️ Voice Agent Integration: Connecting voice-based agents seamlessly with back-office tasks across legacy systems.
How it works
Creating browser agents with Asteroid is simple - and even fun. Our intuitive platform combines natural language prompts, scripts, and specialized tools into clear, visual workflows. You can instantly run and interact with your agent, refine it via chat, and iterate quickly. No coding required!
Key Capabilities
Industry-leading browser agent builder
Browser live-view + session recordings
Real-time AI chat for runtime agent control
Specialized fast and smart DOM-based AI models
Persistent authenticated browsers, credential management, proxies, captcha solvers
SDKs, APIs, Webhooks
HIPAA compliant; SOC II certification underway
🚨 Browser Agent AGI Escape Room (Special Launch Event!)
To celebrate our Product Hunt launch, we're introducing an exciting challenge: A rogue AGI built an inescapable website to trap our innocent browser agents!
Your Mission: Build and improve a browser agent to escape the website!
Sign up on Asteroid
Run the AGI Escape Room agent (it’ll fail initially!)
Refine the agent with smarter prompts, nodes, and faster AI models to escape the AGI!
Check the leaderboard!
🎁 Reward: Top 10 fastest agents win an exclusive Asteroid hoodie!
Visla
@pie3 Congrats on this luanch, love what the browser space is doing
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@mogabr thanks, super exciting, but competitive space! We've been there for some time now so used to it!
@pie3 Congratulation, I have tried the product, that is doing Awesome!
Huge congrats, David & Joe!
Asteroid looks like a major step forward in practical AI automation. Love the focus on specialized, reliable agents over the "one-size-fits-all" hype — that’s what real-world users actually need.
The AGI Escape Room is a brilliant touch — fun and functional! Excited to try it out and explore how Asteroid can streamline browser-heavy workflows.
Sounds like an awesome product - would love to test :))
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@frostman787 You can go and try at https://platform.asteroid.ai/ !
I recently got to use Asteroid to automate some admin tasks in healthcare. I was blown away! Its intuitive interface allowed me to go from idea to automation in minutes. Its robust infrastructure allowed me to test hundreds of tasks in one go. And since then, the platform and API have matured even more, and shipped new useful features in just a matter of weeks. This is without a doubt a game changing product - for healthcare and beyond!
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@davide_locatelli Doctors shouldn't do admin! Happy to serve our healthcare customers! Your feedback has been incredible! Many features launched today are due to your testing (no one ever ran 200 agents exactly at the same time before:) and your Notion report! :D 🫡
@davide_locatelli @pie3What specific challenges do optometrists face in their daily practice? Is it patient scheduling, inventory management for eyewear, or enhancing the accuracy of eye exams? I’m considering starting a project tailored for optometrists—any insights or suggestions on where to focus would be greatly appreciated.
I actually tested this yesterday and it was incredible how fast it did the job!!! I even asked for quite a complicated web browser task and BOOM 🤯 it worked, it modified when I wanted to make changes, I felt the AGI 😮💨 well done team!
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@marialuquea Haha, feel the AGI with Asteroid! Thank you for the support!
Congrats on the launch, guys! I always try to find workflows to help me automate some of the tasks my interns normally hate to do. It's so useful that I can actually visualize the graph of the agent and alter it where it needs it.
@daan_ferdinandusse1 Yes, we've found that transparency and clear visualising of both how the agents work and what they actually did is pivotal to give our customers the confidence they need to move workflows to our platform!
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@daan_ferdinandusse1 Thank you! What kind of tasks your interns do that you'd like to automate?
This looks incredible - congrats on the launch guys! Asteroid to the moon ☄️🌖
@hv123 🚀 Thanks for the support Hannes. Let us know if you need any support building an agent!
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@hv123 Asteroid to Asteroid! :D
Looks impressive! What kind of observability will I have over the actions of the agents?
@david_kubanek1 Such a great question and a very important concern our customers share.
Our "Agent Builder" allows you to construct a workflow as a graph:
Then, during and after an execution, we have a full human-readable log of the agents actions and transitions in the workflow:
@david_kubanek1 Thanks for the support. You can watch the agent in real time, see all the actions it is performing in the chat window and pause it at any point to take control. You can also see the recordings as well as the actions agents took for all your completed runs. Observability is quite important for us :)
This space is cooking for sure! I'd love to see some templates to get me started quickly :) Good luck with the launch!
Hey @neelptl2602 , founding engineer @ Asteroid here!
For sure, if you head to https://platform.asteroid.ai, you will see a collection of Demo agents that you can instantly run (or tweak to your liking)!
@neelptl2602 Thank's for the kind words. If you go to the site the templates are on the home page and you can run them with just one click!
@finley_braund I did see them. I'd love it if yall can cover more use cases.
@neelptl2602 we are working on it :) Hopefully some cool ones come out of the launch today that we can add!
Solidroad
I've tried a ton of these kinds of tools - Asteroid is by far the best I've seen. @pie3 and the team are incredibly good at what they do 🔥
Thanks for the incredibly kind words @pfinlay !
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@pie3 @pfinlay appreciate it Patrick, really glad to hear. Thanks for the support.
Hi, can your agents browse the Library of Babel to find the book I want?
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@michael_kuc Done! Try it out here. Just a heads up that we may go bankrupt before it finds your book.
Congrats on the launch, Joe and David - been following since YC. The progress has been incredible.
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@kai_loudon just getting started! 💪
Rustic AI
Looking impressive
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@robbins23 Thanks Robbin, let me know if we can help you build an agent!
For a long time, I've frankly been an AI agent skeptic, concerned about reliability and repeatability. The tools I tried previously all felt gimmicky—they work super well in demos, but break as soon as I try something myself. I've played around with Asteroid for a while now and the immense effort that has been put into creating specialised and trustworthy agents is unparalleled. This type of technology is one where you start to notice more and more opportunities as you use it. Less time on boring tasks, more time on real life.
Kudos, team! 🚀
@callumtilbury Thank you for the support. We've put a lot of work into allowing you to build reliable agents, so glad to see that has come through.
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@val_kodderitzsch this has been #1 feature request from entreprises and healthcare customers - they were afraid of false positives (submitting wrong patient data etc.) - 99% probability from AI just didn't work for them. But now we can detect specific elements deterministically and escalate to humans when needed!
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@drabekj Thank you so much! We had a lot of discussions whether to do just prompt based agents, or give it a structure with graph, but we decided that structure is needed to actually have reliable agents. We even wrote a blog post on it! - https://asteroid.ai/blog/introducing-asteroid-ai-browser-agents/
Congratulations on the launch guys - the progress you have been making in such a short space of time is amazing. Wish you all the best !
@tom_szyszko thank you for the kind words :)
Inkdrop
Yo what the link to the AGI escape room?
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@antoine2001 Thanks! Great catch! agi.asteroid.ai !
GradeWiz
Asteroid is an awesome tool. Game changer for me.
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@max_bohun glad to have you as an early user Max!
I've used agents like Manus, and the "magic" AI can feel like a black box for business. Asteroid’s visual builder is the right trade-off, giving you the control and trust needed for real automation.
This looks incredible! I love the focus on agents at scale, especially the observability. Would your agent be able to take a travel blog post like this one, and map it on Google Maps? If it could label the discussed locations as well, that would be awesome.
@wilco_kruijer1 On it!
I was surprised by how quickly I got an agent up and running. The interface is clean and easy to use, and I love that I can try it out without needing to sign up for an expensive enterprise plan. Makes the whole experience feel accessible and welcoming.
Thanks for the support @abhyuday !
With such an evolving field, its important that we can allow users like you to see for yourself how Asteroid can genuinely automate your tasks! We also value real-user feedback so that we can build the best product possible!
@abhyuday Great to hear, let us know if there are any agents you want us to build!