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Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company
Company blog · browsercompany.substack.comdesignbusiness
Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company is the company blog at browsercompany.substack.com, writing about design and business. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Letter to Arc Members 2025”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
We’re building a better way to use the internet. Click to read Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Letter to Arc Members 20258 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-05-26
- What Comes After Chrome?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-31
- Optimizing for Feelings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
What Hacker News says?
That’s dead: https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-... I didn’t know either until a few weeks ago.
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Helium Browser”Submitted Optimizing for Feelings as a story · 89 points
HN discussionThis was their blog post back in May https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company”Submitted Browser Company (makers of Arc browser) Acquired By Atlassian for $610M as a story · 77 points
HN discussionThe thing is they make the correct diagnoses of Arc's issues [1], but then instead of addressing them and doing the hard work of building a great product, they took the easy way out and started another greenfield project. How often has that ever been a good decision? 1 - https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company”Submitted Letter to Arc Members 2025 as a story · 59 points
HN discussionAlso: https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"”Submitted The Strategy Behind Dia's Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey pivoted to "AI": https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Perplexity Comet”Submitted Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Macs were only 8% of Apple's 2025 revenue. If the Mac were its own standalone business, it would rank at no. 134 on the Fortune 500 with $33.7 billion in revenue. Also, that's a 12% increase in revenue compared to 2024. If anything, AI has brought more attention to the Mac. Just about every major AI app is released for the Mac first. I've seen complaints about it on HN. The latest is Claude Cowork. It was released…
Comment linking /p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
on “Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again”Submitted What Comes After Chrome? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would try Firefox or Zen or Brave... https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
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on “Ask HN: Is there a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome >= 138?”Submitted What Comes After Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know why they don't have a proper blog, but you might find these links helpful: https://browsercompany.substack.com/archive https://www.youtube.com/@TheBrowserCompany
Comment linking /archive
on “Arc 1.0 – a freeware web browser developed by The Browser Company”Submitted What Comes After Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing For Feelings - On seeking meaning beyond metrics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of the App Is Over as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acid & Amazon Boxes: Do we need a new browser? as a story · 1 points
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