CopyCat is a no-code platform for building browser automations. Using the CopyCat editor, you can automate any web task by combining AI prompts with reliable step-by-step actions.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
We’re the co-founders of CopyCat, Zyad, Graham and Abhi. We started building CopyCat out of frustration with browser automations.
Here’s a bit of background:
🍔 In 2023, we started a company in the restaurant space called Platter. While building the “Shopify for Restaurants”, we had to write tons of browser scripts—to get menus from DoorDash, interact with Point-of-Sale sites, submit apps to the App Stores, and more.
👨💻 It was painful. Lots of coding, constant maintenance, and scripts scattered across laptops. We even had a repo called “Platter-Guts” to store them. Every time a site didn’t have an API, another brittle script was born. There had to be a better way.
💡 That’s when we built CopyCat: the first no-code platform for browser automations using AI prompts and reliable step-by-step actions. It’s dead simple:
✍️ Use the editor to add steps like “Go to this URL” or “Click this button”. Add AI prompts like “Login using these credentials” and let the AI handle it.
🕚 Tweak browser settings like incognito, configure triggers, etc.
☁️ Run your automation in the cloud!
👥 Some of the things our customers are automating in production today:
- Scraping the owners of given LLCs from an outdated government website
- Uploading freight invoices into legacy Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Entering patient information into an insurance portal from doctor appointment transcriptions
❌💰 We’ve launched a free tier just for Product Hunt. There's a smooth onboarding to walk you through your first automation :)
We’d love your feedback & are so excited to share CopyCat with y’all 😻
@zyade@k_piotr Hey! Credits depend on browser minutes, proxy usage (if turned on), LLM steps. Credits are charged after each CopyCat is ran. For example, when you run a CopyCat, each browser minute costs 20 credits.
Congrats! I have a question, most browser automations can't really perform like 100 iterations. Can yours do it?
Example: Lets say that I'm looking on X (and perhaps other social media) for people who solved a particular problem I may have at some point. It should be able to find 100 people then sort them by something vague like how nice they are expected to be to me when I reach out to them.
@heypaus Hey Paul! We actually CAN do iterations like the one you’re describing :)
In the product, when you’re adding steps, we also added “structure” steps like “If/Else” and “For Each”. In your case, you would navigate to X using our “Go to URL” block, then you could use our “Get List of Child Elements” block to retrieve the particular elements you want to iterate on. Finally, you’d use the “For Each” block and pass in the list of child elements. Inside the For Each block, you’d add the steps that you want to execute for each iteration!
It’s pretty powerful what you can do with this stuff!
@patrick_sharpe Thanks for the support, Patrick. Always great to have the Artificial Societies guys on our side!
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Congrats on the launch, team 🎉🚀! I am impressed with Product Name 😊. However, I’m curious 🤔 about how you handle user privacy and data security 🔐? e.g. a user might set up an automation that logs into an account containing sensitive data.
@1001binary thank you! we have a sensitive mode that hides credentials from the UI. We also let users sign into their chrome profile and save that in the cloud session. That’s completely encrypted!
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@a8hi_b Thank you for your clarification! As known, Chrome user profiles do encrypt some data locally, like saved passwords (using OS-level encryption and password managers), and when syncing to Google’s cloud, that data is encrypted both in transit and at rest by Google. So it’s generally considered secure, though it depends on Google’s cloud security. The “sensitive mode” that hides credentials from the UI is a helpful privacy feature but doesn’t, by itself, guarantee full data security.
@1001binary good points! we also have a couple other modes, like incognito and no logs/recordings. Turning these 2 on will not store any record of your runs in our DB or in the cloud. After a run is completed the session is deleted! We are working on more privacy features.
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@a8hi_b good to know that you are working on more privacy features. An another question: Does RunCopyCat take into account the risk of being banned or blocked by websites that prohibit automation or scraping in their terms of service? How do you handle or advise users around that?
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
We’re the co-founders of CopyCat, Zyad, Graham and Abhi. We started building CopyCat out of frustration with browser automations.
Here’s a bit of background:
🍔 In 2023, we started a company in the restaurant space called Platter. While building the “Shopify for Restaurants”, we had to write tons of browser scripts—to get menus from DoorDash, interact with Point-of-Sale sites, submit apps to the App Stores, and more.
👨💻 It was painful. Lots of coding, constant maintenance, and scripts scattered across laptops. We even had a repo called “Platter-Guts” to store them. Every time a site didn’t have an API, another brittle script was born. There had to be a better way.
💡 That’s when we built CopyCat: the first no-code platform for browser automations using AI prompts and reliable step-by-step actions. It’s dead simple:
✍️ Use the editor to add steps like “Go to this URL” or “Click this button”. Add AI prompts like “Login using these credentials” and let the AI handle it.
🕚 Tweak browser settings like incognito, configure triggers, etc.
☁️ Run your automation in the cloud!
👥 Some of the things our customers are automating in production today:
- Scraping the owners of given LLCs from an outdated government website
- Uploading freight invoices into legacy Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Entering patient information into an insurance portal from doctor appointment transcriptions
❌💰 We’ve launched a free tier just for Product Hunt. There's a smooth onboarding to walk you through your first automation :)
We’d love your feedback & are so excited to share CopyCat with y’all 😻
Solving a real issue for us, founders. Would love to see this product growing more day by day.
The 500 free credits are instrumental in understanding the extent to which this product can go.
Their website needs to add some case studies/use cases in the future.
Kudos on the PH launch.
I do really like the UI on the website and the customisation options also like being able to setup schedules and webhooks. Really liked there were also different use cases displayed, will try them out later :)
CopyCat
DocsHound
@zyade congrats on the launch. Can you share a bit more about the credits usage, which actions consume how much credits etc.?
CopyCat
@zyade @k_piotr Hey! Credits depend on browser minutes, proxy usage (if turned on), LLM steps. Credits are charged after each CopyCat is ran. For example, when you run a CopyCat, each browser minute costs 20 credits.
PicWish
@zyade @k_piotr @a8hi_b it works on local browser as well?
CopyCat
@zyade @k_piotr @mohsinproduct nope, only in the copycat cloud browser
Bio Calls by Cross Paths
Congrats! I have a question, most browser automations can't really perform like 100 iterations. Can yours do it?
Example: Lets say that I'm looking on X (and perhaps other social media) for people who solved a particular problem I may have at some point. It should be able to find 100 people then sort them by something vague like how nice they are expected to be to me when I reach out to them.
Can I do it with CopyCat? :)
CopyCat
@heypaus Hey Paul! We actually CAN do iterations like the one you’re describing :)
In the product, when you’re adding steps, we also added “structure” steps like “If/Else” and “For Each”. In your case, you would navigate to X using our “Go to URL” block, then you could use our “Get List of Child Elements” block to retrieve the particular elements you want to iterate on. Finally, you’d use the “For Each” block and pass in the list of child elements. Inside the For Each block, you’d add the steps that you want to execute for each iteration!
It’s pretty powerful what you can do with this stuff!
Bio Calls by Cross Paths
@zyade Wonderful! Guys, thank you for your work :) Products like this are really needed now
CopyCat
@heypaus Thanks for the support Paul!
@zyade @heypaus here are pet names
Omo Cookie tiger troubs biscuit.
RightNow AI
CopyCat
@jaber23 Appreciate the support!
@jaber23 @zyade hello name your pets cats or dogs this omo and cookie and tiger and biscuit and troubs.
@jaber23 @zyade how are people rich off this site how do people make lots of money
findable.
very cool, love the name.
@peterbuch Strongly agree.
CopyCat
@peterbuch Thank you! Somebody had to start a cat-based product 🐱
@peterbuch im like age 18 or 19 please help me
minimalist phone: creating folders
I tried to test it, but there is a limited choice of telephone numbers (countries), so I couldn't pre-fill it and got to the next step.
P.S. I would be more comfortable not sharing my tel. number as I do not have a good experience with that.
CopyCat
@busmark_w_nika Let me know what country is missing and we can add it. Also, that’s great feedback. We’ll make it optional in a few hours.
minimalist phone: creating folders
@zyade Slovakia was missing, maybe the Czech Republic as well. :)
CopyCat
@busmark_w_nika It should pop up in the next 10 minutes :)
@busmark_w_nika why are you seem so rich
Artificial Societies
This is incredible - browser agents are the future but I've never been able to use one before. Congrats guys
CopyCat
@patrick_sharpe Thanks for the support, Patrick. Always great to have the Artificial Societies guys on our side!
Congrats on the launch, team 🎉🚀! I am impressed with Product Name 😊. However, I’m curious 🤔 about how you handle user privacy and data security 🔐? e.g. a user might set up an automation that logs into an account containing sensitive data.
CopyCat
@1001binary thank you! we have a sensitive mode that hides credentials from the UI. We also let users sign into their chrome profile and save that in the cloud session. That’s completely encrypted!
@a8hi_b Thank you for your clarification! As known, Chrome user profiles do encrypt some data locally, like saved passwords (using OS-level encryption and password managers), and when syncing to Google’s cloud, that data is encrypted both in transit and at rest by Google. So it’s generally considered secure, though it depends on Google’s cloud security. The “sensitive mode” that hides credentials from the UI is a helpful privacy feature but doesn’t, by itself, guarantee full data security.
CopyCat
@1001binary good points! we also have a couple other modes, like incognito and no logs/recordings. Turning these 2 on will not store any record of your runs in our DB or in the cloud. After a run is completed the session is deleted! We are working on more privacy features.
@a8hi_b good to know that you are working on more privacy features. An another question: Does RunCopyCat take into account the risk of being banned or blocked by websites that prohibit automation or scraping in their terms of service? How do you handle or advise users around that?