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New Drop: Skyvern x Workato

Product Updates

New Drop: Skyvern x Workato

Let it be known to those far and wide! Our latest integration in Workato is here! Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps businesses integrate apps and automate workflows at scale. It serves mid-to-large enterprises, empowering both IT teams and business users to streamline operations. Why Integrate

Skyvern's operating principles (as they are today)

Skyvern's operating principles (as they are today)

This is a list of operating principles we've observed to work well in our startup. I imagine this will will get longer and longer as the company scales.. but it's cool to capture and share as it is today 1. Treat every project like a research

5 Browser Workflows You Didn’t Know You Could Automate

Business Operations Automation

5 Browser Workflows You Didn’t Know You Could Automate

If we're being completely honest, most of us spend an unhealthy amount of time clicking around websites, doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. We're probably just filling out forms, logging into accounts, or trying to scrape data from a tricky

How to manage by Ben Horowitz

How to manage by Ben Horowitz

I've been rewatching Ben Horowitz's lecture on How to Manage (YC + Stanford how to start a startup -- link in comments) There are so many insights in here that are counterintuitive for me. It all starts from viewing each complex decision from the perspective of the whole

Startups and Type-2 fun

Startups and Type-2 fun

Ever have a bad day and wonder how you're gonna get over it? Happens every day in startup land. Just last week: 😵 Our entire browser infrastructure started crumbling under the weight of new users trying it out. There was a memory leak that went undiagnosed, and 20% of

Changelog - November Part 2 - Quality of Life

Changelog - November Part 2 - Quality of Life

Faster workflow startup times Faster workflow startup times Usually performance fixes are a big meme. You get an app update and the release notes just say "performance improvements"... but WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? We make our performance improvements as obvious as they can get Any time I did

How we got to 10,000 stars (+ why you should be launching as often as you can)

How we got to 10,000 stars (+ why you should be launching as often as you can)

Why does YC keep talking about "launch early, launch often"? By default.. people don't know that you exist. It's your job to be the squeaky wheel, and let people know "HEY I EXIST", "HEY I CAN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM" You

High conviction bet on open sourcing Skyvern

High conviction bet on open sourcing Skyvern

Back in February.. I did my first podcast appearance ever with Mike Bifulco We had just decided we were going to open source.. but hadn't pulled the trigger yet It's crazy to watch it back and realize how big of a bet we were making. We

Changelog - November - Part 1: Site-wide makeover

Changelog - November - Part 1: Site-wide makeover

Landing page re-design We just released our new landing page at https://www.skyvern.com Our old one desperately needed a makeover. It was something I cooked up two nights before a launch. Even though it looked scrappy, it served its purpose well. Our potential customers were able to

9000 Stars and a thank you

9000 Stars and a thank you

For anyone who's been following along our journey for the past 2 years.. you'll know it's been a long one We wouldn't be here today without the help of all of our friends (ie YOU) who rallied behind us in our super

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance Skyvern is now HIPAA Compliant!! This has been a long time coming We've known that we would have to become HIPAA compliant for a long time. We kept talking to healthcare company after healthcare company.. all with the same painpoint "I need help integrating with

6,000 Github stars and why we open sourced

6,000 Github stars and why we open sourced

We just hit a milestone I never dreamed of – 6,000 Github stars ⭐️ I remember back in february we had heated discussions about whether we should Open Source Skyvern or not There were a ton of reasons not to do it: 1. What if someone stole our code? Rebranded it

Investor Update Templates

Investor Update Templates

Most startups send Investor updates to their investors. It's a great way to stay connected with the people who believed in you.. especially the ones that believed in you when nothing was working! It also holds you as a founder accountable. You're forced to write down

Juggling balls as a startup

Juggling balls as a startup

I remember I read a post from my friend Abhay a few months ago about juggling balls in your career. He mentioned that early on in your career, you admire the people that seem to always have their sh*t together. They have a ton of projects going on in

Feature gaps and roadmap planning

Feature gaps and roadmap planning

This is one of the hardest things I've had to learn as a founder. You set out to build products to help people and solve their problems. You cobble together a MVP, emphasis on the minimum, and launch it to a bunch of users If you're

Changelog - September - Prompting guide, SVG Handling, Persistent Sessions, Advanced 2FA

Changelog - September - Prompting guide, SVG Handling, Persistent Sessions, Advanced 2FA

New Prompting Guide We just released a new prompting guide: https://docs.skyvern.com/getting-started/prompting-guide It goes into detail talking about a few gotchas. For example, did you know: 1. Skyvern works the most reliably pairing prompts with (goal, completion criteria) pairs? 1. It turns out that

How we accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours

Engineering & Research

How we accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours

Context Skyvern is an AI agent that helps companies automate workflows in the browser. We run leverage proxy networks and run headful browser instances in the cloud to facilitate most of our automations. 😱 200GB of proxy bandwidth was approximately $500 burned over the course of 6 hours One fatal morning

The dark path to discovering our ICPs

How to find ICPs to go after? This is a question I ask myself all the time. The answer is obvious, right? Who would find the most value out of Skyvern? When we first launched our product, we had no clue what kinds of things companies would want to automate

Changelog - September 4 - New pricing page, Faster live streams, and more!

New Pricing page Skyvern's landing page just got a minor update – we now have a dedicated pricing page 💰! We have 2 main problems we think we can solve with a pricing page: #1: Our pricing wasn't clear at all! The only way to learn about our

How we cut token count by 11% and boosted success rate by 3.9% by using HTML instead of JSON in our LLM calls

Engineering & Research

How we cut token count by 11% and boosted success rate by 3.9% by using HTML instead of JSON in our LLM calls

TL;DR We started using HTML instead of JSON to represent possible actions that Skyvern could take and reduced our cost by 11.8% and increased our success rate by 3.9% What’s Skyvern? Skyvern is an open source AI agent that helps companies automate browser-based workflows with

Changelog - July 23 - GPT-4O Mini, Shadow DOM, CSV Support and more!

Changelog - July 23 - GPT-4O Mini, Shadow DOM, CSV Support and more!

GPT-4O-Mini We just launched GPT-4O-Mini support in Open Source Skyvern 🎉 OpenAI's hottest new model at a low low price-point of $0.15 / 1M input tokens.. compared to $5 / 1M input tokens for GPT-4O. https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/commit/ec5a0a03c094bfefb5fb810cefff94935532c9e2 Retry

Changelog - 4th of July 🇺🇸 Edition

Changelog - 4th of July 🇺🇸 Edition

#1 - Detailed billing (ie how much did I spend on that task?!) You asked, we delivered🎉 You can now see how much your tasks cost you in Skyvern's task billing page 😹 I bet you're wondering.. why did we launch Skyvern without this feature? Well... we wouldn&

Analytics and attribution for an open source project a.k.a story of how we tracked an unexpected burst of traffic

Engineering & Research

Analytics and attribution for an open source project a.k.a story of how we tracked an unexpected burst of traffic

TL;DR: We had a spike of traffic Monday (May 6th) morning, and we looked at our metrics to find out we got featured in a french newsletter and a viral tweet Monday Morning: Random burst of traffic Last Monday morning (May 6th), we woke up to a large burst

Transitioning from Engineers to Founders -- How YC Shaped our journey

Transitioning from Engineers to Founders -- How YC Shaped our journey

As some of you may know, Skyvern is actually our third attempt at building a startup, and we’ve made every mistake under the sun in our path to get to where we are. I’m happy to say that applying to YC was not one of them, as YC

An image showing Skyvern at the #1 spot in Hackerne

We open-sourced and ended up #1 on Hackernews

Skyvern? What’s that? Skyvern is an AI Agent that helps companies automate browser-based workflows using LLMs and Computer vision. We provide companies with a simple API that lets them automate their boring back-office workflows with natural language. How did the launch go? We spent a few hours