r/roastmystartup • u/CommercialBattle7477 • 4d ago

Roast Oasis: a privacy-first AI browser you can train anonymously

Be as violent as you can be, I can take it. Oasis sends minimal interaction data to our company so we can improve the ai assistant, fix bugs, measure latency, and understand what helps. By default, personalization is off: payloads are anonymized with no email or account ID. You only share identifying fields if you opt in from Settings.

Unlike browsers that can gather broad behavioral signals in the background, Oasis is explicit about what leaves your device. We do not build ad profiles from your location, searches, likes, or purchases. Sensitive context stays local.

website: https://kahana.co/

5-minute YouTube explainer/demo: https://youtu.be/8C3FucA95Lg

more on privacy & interaction data (with JSON payload examples of what data collected): https://kahana.co/docs/technical-and-interaction-data

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u/MicLowFi 4d ago

There's a lot to unpack here.

The first thing worth fixing is your entire website is broken. Clicking links, buttons, etc doesn't work. I can see it updating the url but it's not actually doing the redirect so I have to manually refresh the page each time I want to go to a new page. This is pretty concerning to see from a site advertising their new browser.

Another thing that stood out to me and caused some alarm bells to go off is how you seem to be selling two entirely different products between the consumer browser and then an enterprise browser. These are philosophically opposed. An enterprise browser's entire job is that the employer sees what the employee can't hide. A privacy-first browser's entire job is the opposite. I don't see how you can build and support both even if you were a funded company.

Finally, I scanned over your privacy policy and this seems to contradict your "privacy-first" pitch entirely. Your policy states you use Warmly which de-anonymize visitors. It also states you share chat data With Ai providers.

What am I missing? That doesn't seem "privacy-first"

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u/MicLowFi 4d ago

Okay, just read through the comments on product hunt since I was really curious how you had so many and I wanted to see what other people said.

I noticed a few other people flagged the same URL issue that I also ran into hut you had no clue what they were talking about. Someone had to make a YouTube video for you to figure it out. And then you claimed it was fixed over 9 hours ago but it's still broken.

That does not give me any confidence with this product(s) and team building it, especially for something such as this.

The other thing is after reading a few comments, I kept thinking I already read the comment before since they all had the same structure and message. "one thing that stood out to me..." or "wow, this was so intentional! A first product like this!" or "finally, no more endlessly checking 30 tabs!"

It's obvious you paid for comments and upvotes, which is kind of sad to see.

Good luck

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u/CommercialBattle7477 4d ago

Hey thanks for giving this feedback. I genuinely have never seen that issue on the website before until today. I totally agree this is concerning. I'm fixing it right now, and I would really appreciate if you could let me know if it's fixed. I've never experienced this issue, and neither has anyone testing it or working with me until today.

We stopped using Warmly because it sucks, so I'll get rid of that on the privacy policy. However, we had it set up so that it would only show up after cookies were accepted.

From my perspective, an enterprise browser's job is to help protect a company from data leakage and breach - to keep the company secure. I care a lot about keeping both consumers and companies' data secure. How are they philosophically opposed?

I didn't pay for comments, it's actually people who have joined up to build this.

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u/CommercialBattle7477 4d ago

Here's a recording of me navigating the website: https://youtu.be/76vvCLEaQrc

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u/MicLowFi 4d ago

Okay, first you seem like a solid dude, so hope you understand the pushback and criticism. I'm still questioning the product hunt comments though, I mean cmon bro, 80% of them are basically the exact same message.

It seems to be an issue with Cloudinary or something. If I open my chrome dev tools, I had 500k warning logs after a couple of minutes of just scrolling around on the homepage. I'm not exaggerating with the amount of logs either. As I type I'm at 115,942 warnings after a hard refresh.

I tried Chrome first and then safari, but safari was even worse. It took about 20 seconds for the page to even load and immediately caused my MacBook's resources and fans to spike. Same issue in safari with links not working.

I'd prefer not to give out my personal info so not sure how to share a screen recording.

One more thing, I did try disconnecting from wifi but had the same issue. I am also on Canada.

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u/CommercialBattle7477 4d ago

Yeah I totally feel you on the comments haha. I tried so damn hard to get people to write genuine thoughtful comments, but I guess we have an echo chamber and a lack of creativity. I assure you I did emphasize that people should use their mind and write positive and negative comments. I agree with you that they feel like copies of each others.

Thanks for sharing these detailed observations about the performance issue. Super helpful for troubleshooting.

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u/MicLowFi 4d ago

Hey dude, I just checked and it looks like the nav issue was fixed, on mobile at least. Nice.

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u/CommercialBattle7477 4d ago

Thanks for letting me know! Your detailed write up helped significantly with figuring out what was going wrong. If you get a chance, I’d love to know if it’s also resolved on desktop. Either way, this is a big relief. I owe you a ton for all this help man. I really appreciate it