Linden – Self-healing Playwright scripts at scale
Justin and Avichal here. We’re building Linden (http://trylinden.com), a tool for maintaining browser automations at scale. Avichal lived this problem at a dental insurance startup, where he spent time fixing brittle Selenium scripts that broke on minor website updates. He was pulling data from dozens of legacy portals and the constant maintenance was a drain on engineering time. The new AI browser tools had their own issues. We found them to be mostly black boxes, lacking the observability and control needed for business-critical pipelines. We're building Linden with a different…
Linden – Self-healing Playwright scripts at scale launched on September 26, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Justin and Avichal here. We’re building Linden (http://trylinden.com), a tool for maintaining browser automations at scale. Avichal lived this problem at a dental insurance startup, where he spent time fixing brittle Selenium scripts that broke on minor website updates. He was pulling data from dozens of…
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