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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by stephenhandley »

neutronicus wrote: post #272
Pfhortune wrote: post #236

It has been so tragic to see the unforced downfall of this company. Arc is such an amazing browser that really did some new and interesting things. They clearly have some phenomenal talent on the team, having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking! And they threw it away to work on (probably) the CEO's new fixation and threw Arc away like an old to…

> Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser. False. On my work machine, I would grasp at any straw that promised to make JIRA less annoying.

Hammer meet everything is a nail

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

drewbeck wrote: post #255

I'm a huge fan of Arc and generally not a fan of TBCNY due to their abandonment of the browser for their AI hype machine, Dia. What's odd about this acquisition is that the move to Dia was (publicly) presented as a move toward the consumer; that consumers weren't ready for a radical reinvention of the browser interface so it made sense to revert to something more standard if you wanted to do something new with the br…

> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

Do you know why Windows computers ended up dominating the home PC market?

Because everyone was using them at work, and they wanted the same experience they were familiar with.

Hundreds of millions of regular old people use Atlassian’s products every day at work.

If they get familiar with a browser that helps them get their work done faster, they’ll demand it at home, too.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

makeitdouble wrote: post #394
neutronicus wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser. False. On my work machine, I would grasp at any straw that promised to make JIRA less annoying.

Did any Atlassian product ever make JIRA less annoying ? My impression was JiRA is the planet and everything else are satellites turning around. They come and go but never touch JIRA.

yeah, lots of them. Every day. All the time. But you’d have to learn to understand that most of the problem you have with Jira has nothing to do with the tool and everything to do with how it’s been implemented.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

RachelF wrote: post #385
Shank wrote: post #25

I 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 th…

Given Atlassian's terrible product quality, I give it two years until anything they buy becomes borderline unusable frustration.

Would love hear what, specifically, you find terrible about the quality of their products!

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

amykhar wrote: post #129
al_borland wrote: post #58

I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…

I also hated that they were trying to make it a free tool, which would mean selling user data to make money, and would require growth at all costs. These days, I'm trying to migrate to paid tools. I would much rather work with a slower growing company that has a real business model other than grow and sell out.

Dia was paid. Dia Pro cost $20/mo

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

arnvald wrote: post #17

I 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…

Atlassian doesn’t kill the products of companies they acquire

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #108
cwrichardkim wrote: post #66

Atlassian 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…

Completely disagree. Rovo has been an incredible game changer for us. It speeds up work by like 30% and brings context to information rapidly.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

rollcat wrote: post #114
cwrichardkim wrote: post #66

Atlassian 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!

Atlassian broke both Trello and Bitbucket for me, so at least, thanks for acquiring these browsers before I got a chance to get attached?

How did they break Bitbucket for you?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

amrrs wrote: post #29

Surprising 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

How so? The Loom acquisition has been a huge success for Atlassian.
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