looks nice. is it chromium based ? what about supporting other platforms
Thanks! It's based on WebKit directly.
We definitely want to support Windows and Linux eventually, but for now we're focusing on MacOS.
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#12It's really expensive for Indian audience.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're a small team, and we've focused on MacOS for now. But we'll start building for other operating systems as soon as we can!
Try not to let the shallow dismissal get you down. While this product is not for me, as I'm not a routine Mac user, I appreciate that you went with a native app (presumably based on WebKit) rather than Electron or CEF. I do wonder what you'll do when/if you decide to do a Windows port, since WebKit on Windows isn't a popular combination.
Thanks! Yes, we're full native using SwiftUI and WebKit :D
Windows port will be a problem for future me, both fortunately and unfortunately.
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#14I literally never post comments on HN but what is this product. Is this $15/month browser for MacOS ? Fancy browser with grouped tabs, split-screen and sharing but still just browser. I think I'm just too poor to understand. I hope that your product will succeed because then I will know that in this world you can sell ice to an eskimo.
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#15The multitasking seems great. Can you just Shift Click any link and it will open it in the same tab?
I'm wondering about workspaces. It feels like a thing that sounds like a good idea but then in practice isn't used much. My browsing is mostly chaotic and I don't really wanna spend time neatly organizing everything. Wondering what your experience with it has been. Good luck with everything!
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#16Absolutely no chance I'm paying $15/mo for a browser without:
- Extensions - Adblock - No support for CMD+W (?)
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#17Workona tab manager does most of that for free. It doesn't have split screen, but it has better bookmark management.
Without personal discipline, niether of them solve my real problem of tab diahria as I go down 6 nested rabbit holes trying to solve multiple problems, some which do get solved, and some need exploring later, some which need to be archived.
Please, for the love of God ditch messaging. I don't need 1 more place to get a message from someone. If they are too lazy to copy pasta a link, I don't need to see it.
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#18No Linux? No Windows? No 32-bit? No thank you.
No source code? No tech details? No reason to trust you with my browsing? For all I know, this could be MITM'ing my sessions and exfiltrating my data. Being a paid product gives me exactly one guarantee: that I will be that much poorer. It doesn't increase my trust in the product in any way, it doesn't say anything about what the product is doing for my privacy or security. This is a very poor marketing piece. > Wond…
Can't change your mind on that.
I can only tell you that your session data is yours alone, and that we will never monetise our users' data.
Free browsers typically make their money from search engine royalties.
Users will only pay us if they think the value we're giving them is worth it, and that will keep us developing the product towards what users will benefit from, faster than traditional browsers.
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#19The multitasking seems great. Can you just Shift Click any link and it will open it in the same tab? I'm wondering about workspaces. It feels like a thing that sounds like a good idea but then in practice isn't used much. My browsing is mostly chaotic and I don't really wanna spend time neatly organizing everything. Wondering what your experience with it has been. Good luck with everything!
If you shift-click a link, it will open it in your split screen!
I actually have 4 or 5 work-related workspaces (different features I might be working on, one for Kanban board), I have two for personal (1 for DnD, 1 for Youtube videos), and most of my other browsing is quite ephemeral, so the page is closed pretty quickly after opening.
We also want to implement rules for workspaces, so for example you can set certain domains to always open in specific workspaces.
Try it out and let us know what you think and if it helps you!
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#20A closed-source browser is unacceptable from security/privacy point of view. Use a non-free license, but open the code.