Imagine, a browser with the polished experience and performance of Jira
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#102What is with this need for a single application to do so many different tasks instead of just being focused on doing its job and doing it well (browsing the web in this case). I just don't understand how they can with a straight face say "Today’s browsers weren’t built for work." when their entire business relies on browsers ability to do exactly that and have basically been fine (heavy javascript usage in Jira aside…
I’d like to ask the same thing. The main things I want from my browser are for it to be a good browser. Fast and secure with excellent tab and bookmark management capabilities. Anything else except maybe ad blocking is extraneous.
I understand that a lot of people live in their browsers, but for web apps I’d rather split them out into “installed” PWAs and have them benefit from system app/window management facilities than have them clog up my browser’s tabs.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#103Lots of respect to Josh Miller, the CEO. TBC got to a difficult place. They built a product that was very very good, but evidently not good enough to support the capital they raised or the workforce they hired. I wish they had managed to keep Arc around. It's a product I'd glad pay for, and it seems like maybe there are enough fans that subscriptions could've supported a smaller team. Hopefully Atlassian doesn't kill…
Scuttlebutt is Josh Miller is pretty unpleasant to work with and believes Dia is like a holy revelation or something (rather than a chrome extension that calls ChatGPT for you).
What respect does delusions of grandeur and crashing out at Atlassian deserve?
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#104Atlassian owns: jira, confluence, trello, bitbucket, loom, and a couple of other small products It doesn’t feel like a strong strategic or product fit. These are all complex power user products meant to serve enterprises at scale. Integration doesn’t seem useful either. Bummer but congrats to the team!
There’s a bunch of “AI” features being added to Jira if you’re a Jira Cloud customer. I don’t find them useful and maybe that’s a common issue. The features in Dia seem to kind of map to Jira and Confluence if you squint at it. Maybe this is just for that team to fix those features.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#105I've switched to Zen browser recently (I like it's spaces and folder structure to organize work on a daily basis, same as Arc). fFox nightly is not there yet but it's getting close with tabs on the left..
Zen is nice. Arc is still irreplaceable for its true separation of tab and window, it’s like tmux for browser, I haven’t seen any other browser do that.
Actually you can do it in chrome (having multiple profiles basically), but yeah nowhere as good as arc is, i'm using zen rn but still very sad for arc, I have some hopes they bring back arc to life (either directly or inside of Dia)
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#106I never understood how the Browser Company expected to be successful on its own terms. Now I guess we have the answer: they don't. Wild that someone else's browser technology mixed with generic AI is worth $610m. Bubble, you say?
It's Xm, not Xb = peanuts.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#107It 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.
It's already invented - someone else mentioned Here and Island. It allowed us to onboard contractors without giving them computers because we could control a lot. It's an interesting idea on the business side and I'd say a good risk for Atlassian even though it won't be good for their current users.
Think about putting your business VPN and security controls in the browser. And if you can put your connection to AI and start building a productive workflow around it, that's an interesting proposition. It doesn't change interoperability on the web; it's a controlled client for the business use case.
This is being marketed to an entirely different group.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#108Atlassian owns: jira, confluence, trello, bitbucket, loom, and a couple of other small products It doesn’t feel like a strong strategic or product fit. These are all complex power user products meant to serve enterprises at scale. Integration doesn’t seem useful either. Bummer but congrats to the team!
Thus far I’ve found Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical (and they’re constantly annoying me with downright childish amounts of bling, like if you asked a five-year-old to design a product box). So that seems perfectly in character.
All right, there’s a related-tickets feature that could have been great (witness the related-questions feature on Stack Overflow’s ask page, widely acknowledged to search better than the site’s actual search). It’s just no good at what it’s sup posed to do.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#109$610m for a Chromium skin with generic AI bolted on feels like a lot. But what do I know?
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Selling for over half a billion dollars sounds like zero mistakes were made.
Doesn't mean it isn't a mistake, just means you've conned someone into thinking your mistake was a good choice.
That is 99.99999% of all things in life. Business. Sales. Dating.