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Mighty Retrospective

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

wmf wrote: post #67
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Intel/AMD chips are bad and not getting that much better (this one is true, but missed the mark entirely because of Apple silicon throwing a curve ball) Define "bad". I'm on a 2019 MB Pro with an i9 with 32G of ram. I pretty much never have browser performance issues that bother me. I have Chrome open with 2 windows and a total of 39 tabs, plus some other apps that people always like to bitch about resource-wise (S…

2019 MB Pro with an i9 with 32G of RAM You know that's a very expensive laptop, right? Like more expensive than 99.9% of all laptops. Of course you don't have a problem. I think Mighty was always a weird project that pretty much only solved a problem for people that would never be willing to pay for it. Amen. If it could have been, say, $10/month or less it would have been great for people who can't afford a fast com…

Yes, I know it was a high end laptop at the time, but you can get refurbished ones now for about 800-900 dollars, putting it squarely in a mid-range laptop market. Would be even cheaper with, say, 16G of RAM, and still be totally capable as long as I just closed some unused browser tabs a bit more frequently.

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Post by kilroy123 »

andrewstuart wrote: post #11

I had expected Mighty to pivot to solving the giant problem of corporate computing security.

Yeah, I think the whole thing is weird. Why just give up so fast and easily? They made the thing work, hell I was a paying customer.

Seems like the founder just moved on to the next shiny new toy instead of fighting it out until the end. I have a sneaking suspicion PG won't be talking about him anymore.

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Post by stingrae »

Kwpolska wrote: post #71
TylerE wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t The ram on most laptops these days soldered in because it’s cheaper to build it that way then to actually build slots.

Even if you bought a cheap laptop with soldered-in RAM, you can always invest the $35/month towards buying a new laptop with reasonable specs.

One concept of mighty was that your server could be upgraded faster than you could upgrade your personal computer.

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Post by glandium »

joncfoo wrote: post #49
yamtaddle wrote: post #12

> RAM: Mighty allowed users to open hundreds of tabs without being worried that their RAM would be consumed. But my sense is this was not a killer feature. The benefit simply isn’t massive: the alternative is to close tabs and “clean things up”. Many people probably do this anyway because it’s visually hard to have hundreds of tabs open, so users end up closing tabs even with infinite RAM. This is evident in the data…

In Firefox, type % followed by a space and you can then search tab titles and jump to a tab.

Even without %, it will show matching tabs amongst the matching suggestions.

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Post by soledades »

glandium wrote: post #84
joncfoo wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Firefox, type % followed by a space and you can then search tab titles and jump to a tab.

Even without %, it will show matching tabs amongst the matching suggestions.

even more useful if you disable suggestions for everything except (bookmarks and) opened tabs.

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Post by hedgehog »

el_nahual wrote: post #46

I wish Mighty had succeeded for a different audience. The core value prop "make figma faster" was not very compelling--people who need to use Figma can buy a mac. You know who does struggle with slow computers and memory issues? Call center employees who have to run Front, Slack, Chrome, and probably one or two other electron-based apps. At our startup (not in USA), these issues are so bad we've ended up getting peop…

There was another company called S2 Systems doing something similar to Mighty a bit earlier, they ended up selling to Cloudflare and I think the technology became the browser isolation product:

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/browser-isola...

I used the demo, it was quite good.

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Post by tweestuff »

dhoe wrote: post #5
asadlionpk wrote: post #3

Streaming Chrome with some value adds must have been a short-term product right? It could only have existed until PCs caught up on processing speed (Apple's M1?). I wonder what vision did Suhail pitch to PG to deserve high praise. Because this can't be it.

My guess when it launched was (maybe too cynically) that it's the 100% complete visibility of user behavior.

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Post by tweestuff »

GMoromisato wrote: post #10
asadlionpk wrote: post #3

Streaming Chrome with some value adds must have been a short-term product right? It could only have existed until PCs caught up on processing speed (Apple's M1?). I wonder what vision did Suhail pitch to PG to deserve high praise. Because this can't be it.

The ultimate vision is/was to have everything run in the cloud. Imagine if you could run any app on the most powerful machine in the world. See: https://blog.mightyapp.com/mightys-secret-plan-to-invent-the... In my opinion, this is the right goal, but I don't think this can be done by running existing apps in the cloud (and remoting their UI). Instead, I think we need a new cloud-native platform so that any app can b…

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Post by panosv »

el_nahual wrote: post #46

I wish Mighty had succeeded for a different audience. The core value prop "make figma faster" was not very compelling--people who need to use Figma can buy a mac. You know who does struggle with slow computers and memory issues? Call center employees who have to run Front, Slack, Chrome, and probably one or two other electron-based apps. At our startup (not in USA), these issues are so bad we've ended up getting peop…

If you don't mind, which one is your start up?
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