It would be perfect upsell for Atlassian because of their products abysmal performance of their product.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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#23Arc had some novel ideas but ultimately it was DOA for me because I needed something that I could access on both desktop and mobile for shared tabs/history/etc.
They did help push the established players in the field forward a bit though, so I will be thankful for that.
Also: It's always funny to see how people really feel about an acquisition. eg the comments in this thread feel like a eulogy.
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#24ARC always feels like a feature not a product. Don't see how Atlassian connection is really gonna make either better.
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#25I would've actually expected a buyer like OpenAI or Anthropic, if I'm being perfectly honest. Atlassian is such a strange buyer. $610m in cash is really low in the grand scheme of AI pricing too. If they're only worth $610m, I feel like this says a lot that "AI browsers" aren't actually worth that much. Remember, Instagram was $1b. The Windsurf acquihire was $2.4b and there are surely a lot more people in business that use browsers than write code.
Was Atlassian the highest bidder, or was Atlassian the only bidder?
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#26I really appreciate that there's a company trying to reimagine browsers. Arc was an interesting idea, I used it for a few months, but in the end I switched back to Firefox. I haven't tried Dia yet, and now I'm not sure if I should. I do think that selling a browser is going to be an extremely difficult task, so having an enterprise software machine with huge customer base might help it, but Atlassian strikes me as a…
If you liked Arc, you should try Zen. I understand it brings many of the same ideas to a Firefox base.
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#27The thing the Browser Company does best is marketing. I have always felt like they really wanted to market their products more than build them. The founders should let Dia/Arc go and just go into product marketing. Many would hire them.
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#28It was nice knowing them. > less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser Yes Gartner, let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web - there's definitely some business on splitting that up. I'm sure atlassian people love that idea.
> less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser That's the value prop (along with better application interop+) of the Here browser. + I do think the File System API did somewhat mitigate this value prop. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
Also these guys [1].
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#29Surprising I don't think Atlassian hasn't even recovered from Loom acquisition. It was good for Loom but hardly any positive impact for Atlassian. Now Arc and Dia - it seems to be an obsession to acquire an AI BROWSER
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#30AI in a web browser isn't going to make Atlassian products any more usable
If only competition was half as good.
I will keep suggesting Atlassian, because everything else I used since the 1990's was worse.