Congrats on the launch! Awesome to see this release as an early user who was able to check it out. The shared workspaces and shared browser windows with context in place has been incredible for collaborating with folks. We have our Figma design, Notion doc, and Gitlab MR all in the same space so we don't have to go searching for each one independently or have them cross-linked to each other.
Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
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Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#32Question: What were the technical requirements that necessitated a custom browser? That would really sink adoption for my team. Any plans to have a lite version that can work inside your favorite browser (even if plugin is required)? Idea: your privacy section only talks about cookies and ads, but all my privacy questions were around the AI features that would use all our team's messages and work across apps as conte…
Most of the stuff we do that people seem to really like can't be technically or physically done inside of another browser's tab unfortunately. Chrome extensions are too limiting as well. We started off as a chrome extension inside of our previous company, and hit a wall pretty quickly.
For the LLM calls, the one's you currently see are patching calls to a variety of model providers. As long as they hold their end of the TOS you should be fine. Everything else is happening locally.
We will launch a self-host option for Muddy. Cool features like hosting the servers and build process yourself, custom icon and skin on the app, and other internal rules you can set up. Let me know if that's of interest.
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#33So, despite being based on Chromium, there's no Linux builds? Would like to try this but me and my entire team uses Linux.
We have Ubuntu and Fedora users through Wine. Not ideal I know, but enough to try out unless you have a super custom Arch setup
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#34Looks very interesting. The chat feature almost looks like a good slack alternative. I can imagine this being useful to organization where your chats and your work are in the same window.
That's the general idea. We found that if you break down the average team's project slack channels, it's a bunch of urls and threads about them. Just wanted to make that experience simple!
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#35Congrats on the launch - seems like a neat product. A few questions: 1) It seems like you iterated on a bunch of ideas that landed in this - what were some interesting features that the team was really interested in that you ended up killing? 2) What were the most non-intuitive hard technical challenges? 3) Have you successfully ended up having someone give up on Slack to use this?
check the timestamp: https://x.com/SlackHQ/status/367835012315357184
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#36Looks very interesting. The chat feature almost looks like a good slack alternative. I can imagine this being useful to organization where your chats and your work are in the same window.
You can use Slack & Discord from browser tabs. That's how I roll
One Chrome window for
- work (slack, jenkins, bitbucket)
- personal (discord, gmail, twitter, HN)
- open source (github, docs, projects)
Each one is a mental box and are kept separate
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#37Congrats on the launch! One of the positive byproducts of the open web platform is that products like this are possible. Much of what I share in other communication tools are links to things on the web, but sharing ends up forcing a context switch cost on both my end and the receiving end. Love that Muddy is exploring this problem space since I haven’t felt like other neue-browsers have gone far enough in making browsing itself a more collaborative and in-context experience.
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#38This is super neat. I would love to use this in a team setting if I could convince the org to pay for it.
I saw in another comment that it’s a patched version of Chromium. Are you using CDP for underlying communication?
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#39The feature for sending messaging and posting comments to a tab is some pretty clever and creative UX. Seriously next level future stuff and congrats for just coming up with the concept. I like that it's all timeline based. For my use case, we currently use Front email thread and then link to a Shared Dropbox where we post everything (including links to like a Google Doc or webpage). I think having chronological book…
Integrating an AI tab organizer of which they’re very few and the chrome one is essentially garbage, would make this a definite purchase for me. The AI should organize my own tabs and the ones I share
Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
#40Totally evokes the good memories I have of "Google Wave" as a way for folks to collaborate on rich documents. Super cool.