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The Browser Company
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The Browser Company is the company blog at thebrowser.company, writing about design and startups. Since 2020, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The Browser Company”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Browser Company's site as the home of Arc, a browser that organises tabs into spaces, and discuss the product, its funding and its values page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We’re building a better way to use the internet, starting with your browser.
Most-linked posts?
- The Browser Company16 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2021-06-09
- The Browser Company7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-05-07
- Notes on Roadtrips4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-06
What Hacker News says?
> low level software engineers on payroll How does The Browser Company make money? They're giving their product away for free. Browsers are complicated. It doesn't inspire confidence that the folks in charge of that complexity can't get their heads around a business model. (Aside: none of their stated company values have anything to do with the product or engineering [1]. They're all about how people feel.) [1] http…
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on “Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 12 points
HN discussionRegarding tab groups, there's two things that I've found that seems to have solved my requirements: - Workona (this is an extension for chrome) - Arc ( https://thebrowser.company/ ) Both essentially have the idea of "spaces" for web browsers.
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on “I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was using brave for a while but am now fully converted to Arc- https://thebrowser.company/ Reminds me of using Chrome for the first time after IE days.
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on “Brave browser now blocks cookie banners”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThough I'm not sure what they are up to exactly, isn't this what The Browser Company [1] is trying to do? [1] https://thebrowser.company/
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on “Vivaldi 4.0”Submitted This is a web browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou may like Arc, still in private beta but I have been using for a couple weeks and have completely switched. Fresh take on the browser imo. https://thebrowser.company/
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on “Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt’s definitely happening and from multiple vectors including productivity, privacy and decentralization. Now that Chromium powers every major browser (except Firefox), it’s helped stabilize a standard base for others to disrupt upon like: * [The Browser Company]( https://thebrowser.company/ ) * [Sidekick]( https://www.meetsidekick.com/ ) * [Bonsai]( https://bonsaibrowser.com/ ) New rendering engines in WASM and dec…
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on “Developer experience is user experience”Submitted Notes on Roadtrips: creativity, ingenuity, and building something new as a story · 1 points
HN discussionsounds cool, is this in the same space as Arc ( https://thebrowser.company )?
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on “Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?”Submitted The Browser Company of New York as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://thebrowser.company/values/ I don't think I want to have anything to do with this company. Super cringe. I get the impression that Arc will be a form over function product reflecting someone's understanding of good design and insisting on it. Not that I'd use a closed source browser anyway.
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on “Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0”Submitted The Browser Company – Building Arc as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a wonderful project! I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set. Obviously this has deficiencies but like it or not the web _is_ computing for the vast majority of people and exploring/pushing its limits of user exp…
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on “Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment”Submitted Notes on Roadtrips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's your space to breathe on the internet! Let go of your old browser! Here are some pictures you can move around with your mouse. Give us your email address and you'll be given a place in line, which we'll inform you about...sometime. Or if you want some actual information, this and several other preview articles explain what it actually is: https://www.theverge.com/23462235/arc-web-browser-review Of you could wat…
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on “Arc from the Browser Company”Submitted Arc: A distraction free web browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://thebrowser.company/ > - We love the internet, but it can be overwhelming - What if a browser could help us make sense of it all My response to this. Everyone uses the internet and thus by making such statements, this company can engage a lot of people. I think this is an example of a problem that is far less "problematic" than what this company is trying to claim At least, I was hoping for something more "re…
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on “Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA few but a search would no doubt turn up more: Arc https://thebrowser.company/ - Perhaps not open source? Orion https://browser.kagi.com/ - Mac only (built on webkit) Vivaldi https://vivaldi.com/ - Chromium based Opera https://www.opera.com/ - Chromium based Ungoogled Chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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on “Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser?”Submitted Building Arc as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is more text here: https://thebrowser.company
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on “Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web”Submitted The Browser Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> We’ve raised over $17 million dollars from a diverse group that includes the founders of Instagram, Stripe, Twitter, Zoom, Figma, and LinkedIn. https://thebrowser.company/#15 > We may also de-identify or anonymize Personal Data to further our legitimate interests. https://start.arc.net/privacy-rights-by-region Closed source, as far as I could tell. It looks like a really nice product but the combination of these l…
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on “Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web”They don't explicitly say it, but if you browse the parent company site[1] the overall impression you get is "closed source / commercial". Based on job postings their browser is chromium based[2]. [1] https://thebrowser.company/ [2] https://jobs.lever.co/thebrowser-company/dffb486a-c581-43ca-...
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on “Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web”I had to look up Arc, there are different arcs. You probably mean this one, a new kind of browser: https://thebrowser.company/
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on “Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing”
