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Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

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This is awesome. What are your thoughts on Office365 tools and Muddy? We don't use Google docs and would love to have a similar experience. That said, I could probably manage certain teams to move away from our MSFT reliance with this flow. Really excited to try this out and follow along.

I think if EVERY tool you use at work is in the Office suite, teams is just better. If you have any other tools like one off SaaS or devTools, Muddy could be a fit.

Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

#93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find the need to self-moderate at least as scary. Heaven forbid you say what you think with just morality in mind. Who even knows what is or isn't allowed in 2024?

I have never in my life thought “Gee, I might be banned for saying that,” but maybe I’m just a sheeple.

Surely you can open a mainstream news website and find obvious nonsens or disagreable material. You dont have want to talk about it but it is the idea you are not suppose to that can already change you.

Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

#95

Question: 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…

Still not enough. You are using Chromium but your software might not be secure enough. You are dealing with sharing data all over the internet and part of your code is not opensource.

If we cannot inspect or reproduce what you are doing , we cannot trust our work with your browser. We might as well consider you are stealing our data.

If you launch self-host option , you should opensource it.

What we have for opensource alternatives are :

https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

#96

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Building a browser does seem intimidating! What technical considerations made you finally take it seriously? Any advice for folks trying to do the same or taking on another intimidating project?

Started just by building Chromium and Brave and poking around in there and making small changes. Chromium is huge but has terrific documentation (once you find the current copy) and Google hosted code search. Digging through crbug.com often helped point us in the right direction. 2 unlocks that made us confident to pursue this project: 1) Repeatable way of patching Chromium and keeping up with upstream changes 2) Wri…

any interest in pointing someone curious about those repeatable patches in the right direction?

Re: Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

#97
Really cool demo! Curious to try it.

The homepage says "(y)our business model is around selling collaboration services and enterprise features, not ads"—can you expand on this a bit, specifically what you mean by "collaboration services" and how you intend to monetize Muddy?

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