Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

bonsaibrowser.com

21–30 of 234 posts

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#21
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What types of things do you run in your OS that you think would be useful to group like this?

Terminals with man pages, REPLs experimenting with different libraries, PDF readers with documentation, browser windows — lots of things.

Thanks for the info. What OS do you run?

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#22
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terminals with man pages, REPLs experimenting with different libraries, PDF readers with documentation, browser windows — lots of things.

Thanks for the info. What OS do you run?

Various Linuces, currently Debian.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#25
This looks really great, something I could use and would pay for when polished but there's definitely a few issues for me at the moment:

* Why go fullscreen and modal? I want to drag in links from docs, email, other browsers, have it side by side while reading PDFs etc. etc. this stops me from doing any of that

* Please let me change the shortcut! I already have Option-Space bound.

* Let me put the browser window anywhere I want when it's in the single page non-fullscreen mode, don't levitate it to where you think I want it

* Unless I'm missing something the process of opening a page then adding it to a workspace seems to be three clicks - open page, hit + (plus) button, select workspace, select workspace/inbox - need to make this one click, maybe just show the inboxes? This also seems clunky, I'd much rather browse, drag that page to the workspace/inbox, continue browsing and adding further pages, then arrange all the pages in the workspace after i've added all the links. Seems a faster workflow.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#26

I’d love for a web browser to have first-class integration with a universal personal search system like Monocle [0]. I find if I want to learn something new I am searching externally, but if I am attempting to recall something, being able to search through all my indexed notes in the same interface I’m building, researching, and planning in has potential. [0] https://github.com/thesephist/monocle

Perhaps something like Raycast or Alfred would let you build this kind of universal search as a plug-in?

You’ve got me thinking…

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#29
I'm not sure I see the point. Firefox can do that with tab groups (E.G: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/panorama-tab-gro...), and your OS can put it in the foreground with the shortcut you like.

Why an entirely new browser?

If you want something more polish, a firefox add on or some OS service would be less work and benefit from the ecosystem.

Or is it a case of FTP vs Dropbox and I'm nerding out?

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

#30
post #15

The whole concept of this browser is really great. It would solve a lot of my problems regarding where to properly store topics I'm doing research on (since I'm a student and knowledge junkie I tend to just dig for 10-15 resources and never get to reading them) My main question is what's your businesses model? You monetization plan?

Thanks! Our plan right now is to do a perpetual fallback license for $50 when we can prove the browser is something people want. We could make the browser free later on if we can provide paid features that require us to run servers.

> prove the browser is something people want.

prove the browser is something people want for free

Post reply on HN