Rill Browser
The browser where Claude Code and Codex work beside you
860 followers
The browser where Claude Code and Codex work beside you
860 followers
Rill is an AI-native browser built around the Claude Code and Codex you already use. Browse normally, then press ⌘E on any page to turn what you're looking at into a task for your agent. Rill finds the right project, passes along the context, and the agent works while you keep browsing. It also sorts your tabs into themes, turns your history into days you can search, and brings every project your agents are working on into one place. Free, on the plan you already have.
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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm William! I made Rill because I want to always stay in the flow.
As an ADHD, I never liked code-switching. My best ideas for work come when I'm supposedly not working at all: watching something for fun, reading things and following a rabbit hole, looking at how someone else solved a problem. Then when an idea hit me, I'd have to stop, switch to coding agents, find the project and explain it all, and most of the time I just didn't.
Rill is my way of removing that code-switching. It's a browser with your Claude Code or Codex working alongside you. When something on a page gives you an idea, you say so right there, and an agent starts on it in the right project. You don't have to spend time looking for the right folder, rephrasing everything you just saw on the web, and you don't switch in and out of work mode. The work goes on with you in the flow.
This matters now more than ever. Agents have shortened the distance between ideas to output near zero. So the bottleneck is capturing the idea at the moment you have it. That moment is nearly always while you're taking something in, and that is what a browser is for.
Rill is a free AI-native browser. It's WebKit-based, which means it's native to Mac. And it runs on the Claude Code or Codex plan you already have, so you don't have to buy a new subscription for all of its agentic capabilities.c
How do you keep an idea today when it shows up at the wrong time?
@williamgaoharvard found a layout i liked on someone protfolio pointed at it and said make my homepage do this is anyone else using it mostly for design?
@shivam_kushwaha16 That's a great use case. Exactly the idea - no need to copy paste or re-explain context. Rill just brings it in to your coding agents
@williamgaoharvard ohh great
What a challenge it is to launch a browser nowadays! Why did you take that bet instead of building a Chrome extension? How are people reacting to the change?
All the best for the launch!
@patatruffe Thank you Romain! It definitely takes some courage to do a browser. We choose this form factor because we see agents as first-citizens. Chrome Extensions can only touch what's on browser and improve it, but we want to bring the agent capabilities into where people browse and have ideas.
We're very thankful to the whole WebKit infrastructure. Without it, Rill won't be possible. We've done some technical deep dive into Chromium and I can tell you it's crazy down there.
@williamgaoharvard Thanks for taking the time; looking forward to testing it!
Interesting! Is it a built-in AI that forwards the tasks to Claude and Codex or do you directly integrate your already existing Claude or Codex subscriptions API keys into Rill? Congrats on the launch! 🚀
@emad_khair Thanks! Rill uses your already existing Claude or Codex subscriptions on your Mac. You don't need API keys. If you're using either on your Mac, Rill can call upon them directly
How is this different from Atlas, Comet or Dia? They all put AI next to the page.
@justin2025 Great question Justin! We're fundamentally different from all of them because we treat AI agents as first citizens.
Those "AI browsers" have a lot of cute functions that uses AI to improve your browsing, but they don't help with the actual heavy lifting that coding agents are doing today - run 1 week straight to solve a research problem, run 4 hours to create a great motion graphics video, go through 2000 old excel sheets with manual errors and sort all of them together. These are all things you can do with Astra and Fable today, and these are also things you can ask Rill to work on.
We have deep respect for that incredible capability coding agents bring, so we see browsing not as something to be dramatically improved with AI gimmicks, but as the starting point of innovative ideas that can lead to real building.
Guys, congrats on the launch!
Love the idea of having everything in one place! I have a question: can I manage task priorities across multiple agents, or does ech agent work independently?
@kseniia_ponomareva The agents work in parallel, so even if you run many agents at the same time, each of them will be done as fast as if they're the only one working.
No Chrome extensions is a real cost for me, mostly the password manager. Just curious are people using this as the daily driver or as a second browser?
@polman_trudoWhat password manager do you use? Right now we use Mac's keychain to save the passwords, and have enabled importing Chrome and other browsers' password into it. Happy to support 3rd party password manager as well.
Chrome extensions are definitely great. One feature we'll launch in the future is "Make your own extension". The top left beautiful painting island is actually reserved for that. This way you're able to create your own extension with one simple ask, and customize them however you want.
@williamgaoharvard 1Password
@polman_trudo 1Password Mac app will work with Rill (as with many other apps, using 1Password's universal autofill). If you're more accustomed to the extension-only experience, we're investigating the possibility to support it in the near future. Thanks for bringing up the use case!
@williamgaoharvard I use bitwarden chrome extension
This is a pretty need tool. I have always been a fan of these tools that kind of act as a surface to multiple products. I would recommend expanding to include other tools as more tools outside of Codex and Claude Code will come out and being able to "plug and play" would be cool.
@cloudalchemist I totally agree. Break the border and bring things together. What are some tools you'd want to include?
@williamgaoharvard would love integration with Cursor as an additional AI provider