$OPEN buys hundreds of homes every week. And every one of those homes needs something surprisingly boring: Water. Gas. Electricity. The problem? There are ~50,000 utility providers in the US, with different portals, processes, logins and even CAPTCHAs. Opendoor tried vendors, internal tools and browser agents from the major AI labs. They ended up using Gumloop. Its Agent Browser is now automating this work across hundreds of homes every week. This is the kind of AI deployment I find more interesting than another chatbot demo. $OPEN isn’t using AI to write emails. It’s using AI to operate the messy infrastructure behind its core business. And that’s where the real leverage might be. 🐇 link
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Gumloop's talk is largely praise for its Agent Browser — agents that log in and click where there is no API — with a thin, split set of complaints about broad upfront permissions, fragile browser recordings and the $37/mo price.
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Tone· 20 posts from 18 people· written 27 Oct
How do people feel about Gumloop?
Posting about Gumloop is almost all positive: 8 people praise it in general and 7 single out the Agent Browser, with Auto Mode and the credential vault named by smaller numbers.
Plain praise is the largest theme, at 8 people. The most-travelled post is an Opendoor example: the company buys hundreds of homes a week and used Gumloop's Agent Browser to work utility portals across roughly 50,000 US providers with different logins and CAPTCHAs. Others show smaller builds — pulling Supabase data into an image-generation step — or simply recommend it to someone asking what tool to use, and one says it "killed it".
The Agent Browser is next at 7 people, and it is what the praise is usually about: where a site has no API or MCP, the agent opens a browser, logs in, clicks, fills forms and saves the sequence as a repeatable workflow. The case people give is downloading the same reports from five tools every week, or exporting a CSV from an old back office.
3 people credit Auto Mode with ending choice paralysis across a long model lineup; 2 say a cloud browser with a vault, 1Password and session replays is what makes them willing to hand over logins.
- Loves it8
- Agent Browser is a big unlock7
- Auto Mode ends model overload3
- Vault and replay make logins trustworthy2
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3/ Gumloop now lets an AI agent open a browser, log in to tools with no easy connection and do the clicking for you. Our verdict: try it, if your week starts with downloading reports from five tools.
Auto Mode picking from that insane model lineup is genius no more choice paralysis
A cloud browser with 1Password built in is the part that finally makes me trust an agent with logins.
why not @gumloop
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Pain points· 5 posts· written 27 Oct
What do people complain about with Gumloop?
Criticism is thin and split: 2 people call the agent's upfront powers too broad and 2 fault the browser agent's fragility, with one person balking at the $37/mo price.
The permission complaint is put most bluntly by one person: Gumloop asking to send emails and permanently delete calendars "feels like a lot upfront", and they wanted to try an agent, "not give it power of attorney". The related worry is that browser access means the agent can click anything a human can, so which sites it is allowed on matters.
On fragility, one person says a browser recording breaks the second a site updates any button styling. Another calls session replay and the vault the easy half, because a session that leaks in a shared profile is only found by replay after it already happened.
Price comes up once, angrily, about the $37/mo entry: "You want $37/mo". No one in this section compares that price to a named rival.
- Too much access, too little scoping2
- The browser agent is fragile2
- Too expensive at $37/mo1
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Gumloop - permission to send emails and permanently delete calendars feels like a lot upfront. I wanted to try an AI agent, not give it power of attorney 😂 Can we start with read-only access and request more when a workflow needs it?
Browser access is huge for coverage. It also means the agent can click anything a human can, so scoping which sites it's allowed on matters even more.
Browser recording breaks the second a website updates any button styling.
Session replay and a vault solve the easy half. The hard half is a session that leaks in a shared profile, and replay only helps you find it after it already happened.
@gumloop You want $37/mo fk. 🤣🤣🤣
Alternatives· 3 posts from 2 people· written 27 Oct
What are the alternatives to Gumloop?
The only comparison talk filed here is a public argument in French between two founders in which one calls the other's product "un copycat de Gumloop" — 2 people, and no one describing a switch.
The three posts are one exchange between two people on the same day. One accuses the other's product of being a Gumloop copycat, and of copying Gumloop's ICP, and argues that the "Claude plus thousands of tools" angle is not new. The other answers in kind, denies having a narrow ICP, and blocks the first. It reads as a scrap about how founders talk about competitors — naming them rather than denying they exist — not as a comparison of what the two tools do.
Nothing in the posts says how either product differs from Gumloop, what it charges next to Gumloop, or that anyone moved to or from Gumloop over it. Gumloop appears as the thing a rival is measured against, not as a product anyone here chose or left.
- Rivals called Gumloop copycats3
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Les gars, arrêtez de prendre la mouche aussi facilement quand on cite vos concurrents mdr Une bonne boîte a des concurrents. Un bon fondateur sait les nommer sans transpirer. Il demande de citer au moins 1 autre outil qui fait la même chose que son SaaS. Je réponds tranquillement et il m'attaque gratos sur mes calls 😮💨 Vous êtes un copycat de Gumloop mais est-ce que c'est si grave ?? Non ! Je suis le premier à le faire 😂 Blague à part, je nommais juste tes concurrents direct, pas de quoi me prendre de haut mon petit @theo_louro Et si je peux me permettre, un bon founder ne prétend pas que la concurrence n’existe pas ou fait moins bien les choses. Il sait expliquer pourquoi il gagne contre elle. Toi t'es très loin de savoir l'expliquer convenablement mais ça va venir, j'en suis sûr. 🫡 Pour faire la paix, je t'offre un call gratuit pour t'aider à identifier tes concurrents sans faire semblant qu’ils n’existent pas. À condition de ne pas confondre une liste de concurrents avec une attaque personnelle 😹😹
Tu mélanges 2 sujets : Treg répondait à la promesse “accès à +3 000 outils sans abonnement à chaque SaaS”. Pour les concurrents de Rerun, je t’ai aussi cité Squad, Twin et que vous êtiez un copycat de Gumloop mais tu rebondis pas là dessus, hein ? 👀 Je n’ai pas dit que Treg était un clone de Rerun non plus juste que votre angle “Claude + milliers d’outils” n’est pas inédit. Donc d'où je suis hors sujet ? Et tu peux contester la proximité des produits, mais dire que je suis hors sujet en ne disant que Treg c'est pas ton concurrent, on a pas la même définition de "concurrence" alors. Vous avez une tonne de concurrence et c'est très bien, il en faut sinon ça voudrait dire qu'il n'y a pas de marché. Par contre vous n'avez aucun moat, aucun ICP de clair et aucun use case qui vous différencie de vos concurrents (vous avez tout copié de Gumloop que ce soit les uses cases ou l'ICP visé) alors que y'a tellement d'autres choses à faire au lieu de copier bêtement la value proposition de vos concurrents... Avec cette mentalité vous n'irez jamais loin les mecs, bon courage vraiment 😹😹 Et sans rancune... enfin pour moi parce que vous êtes trop susceptible visiblement chez Rerun mdr
bro va m’apprendre le marketing 😂 il avance ton clone de bento avec 99.9% de MRR en moins ou toujours pas ? Bro pense qu’un ICP se limite qu’à des métiers 😂, oui dsl on a pas d’ICP en fait j’ai découvert la vente hier pour tout te dire Et pour couronner le tour tu sors qu’on a pas d’ICP clair pour dire 2 lignes plus bas « vous avez copié l’ICP de Gumloop » Frérot pour être aussi hostile c’est que t’es juste un incompétent qui ne peut se limiter qu’à des SaaS de link in bio et qui rage car des gens ont visiblement plus d’ambition Je te bloque aussi my bad, en espérant que ton chômage, tes calls à 20€ pour débloquer des situations (visiblement ça débloque pas la tienne) et tes 300€ de MRR te permettent de bien vivre au fin fond de la thaïlande
Questions· 6 posts from 5 people· written 27 Oct
What do people ask about Gumloop?
Questions split between wanting proof of what the agent did (2 people) and asking how another product differs from Gumloop (one person, asking twice); login walls and a promo code come up once each.
The audit question is the practical one. Someone says session replays are what would make them trust the agent with logins, but "I wouldn't give an agent my logins without seeing what it did", and asks whether it shows which step failed. Another asks how you verify a change actually persisted, since an optimistic UI can show success before the server saves it, and suggests reading the page again after a reload as a check alongside the replay.
The other recurring ask is comparative: one person, twice, in Spanish, asks what a competing agent has that is different "frente a Gumloop".
Single asks: how the agent "survives login walls", and how to apply a promo code and activate an account — the last posted on the cutoff day and still unanswered in the filed posts.
- Can you see what the agent did?2
- How is it different from Gumloop?2
- How does it get past login walls?1
- How do I apply a promo code?1
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Session replays are what would make me trust this. I wouldn't give an agent my logins without seeing what it did. Does it show which step failed?
how do you verify a change actually persisted? optimistic UI can show success before the server saves it, so a read after reload would add an independent check alongside the replay
Que tiene de diferente frente a Gumloop?
how does it survive login walls?
hello how can i apply promo code i cant not activate my lenny account
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Wishes· 3 posts· written 27 Oct
What do people want from Gumloop?
The main wish is to start with read-only access and add powers only as a workflow needs them (2 people); one person wants accounts payable automated through the final payment step.
Read-only first is the clearer ask. The complaint behind it is that Gumloop asks to send email and permanently delete calendars up front, and the writer would rather start read-only and request more later. A second person replies that read-only first "would make me way more likely to actually try it", so the request is about trying the product at all, not a detail of settings.
The other wish is narrower: automating accounts payable completely, including the final payment step rather than stopping short of it. That is one person's question to another user, added late in the window.
These are requests about what the product should do; no one in this section says it already works either way.
- Start with read-only access2
- Automate the final payment step1
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Gumloop - permission to send emails and permanently delete calendars feels like a lot upfront. I wanted to try an AI agent, not give it power of attorney 😂 Can we start with read-only access and request more when a workflow needs it?
haha "not power of attorney" 💀 read-only first would make me way more likely to actually try it
have you thought of automating accounts payable completely i.e. the final payment step as well
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