Horse – The Organized Browser
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Horse – The Organized Browser
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#2> “Why is there no free trial?”
> We introduced a 14-day free trial once, but it introduced a lot of support and admin, while not growing revenue much. It didn’t make a lot of sense and we removed it, but we might try again in the future.
Well, I'm sorry, but in this landscape (browsers everywhere), you need to demonstrate execution and value to me first. Same reason I won't create an account to test drive the Arc Browser. I'm intrigued, but I'm not giving up a damn thing until I know I'm not getting a pile of garbage.
I say this as someone with many paid licenses and subscriptions.
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#3> Save up to 2 hours every day by organizing your work seamlessly and reducing daily stress.
Aaaaaaaand into the bullshit box it goes.
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#4> “Why is there no free trial?” > We introduced a 14-day free trial once, but it introduced a lot of support and admin, while not growing revenue much. It didn’t make a lot of sense and we removed it, but we might try again in the future. Well, I'm sorry, but in this landscape (browsers everywhere), you need to demonstrate execution and value to me first. Same reason I won't create an account to test drive the Arc Br…
I agree, I understand the perceived cost of running free trials, but that's just what marketing costs. You can't expect to turn off free trials but retain the same growth. Of course at such a small scale other factors may dominate and they may not notice it holding them back, even if it is.
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#5Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.
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#6So the point is to have hierarchical tables groups?
Aren’t there Firefox / Chrome extensions that do that?
I wouldn’t mind paying a lifetime fee for a better browser, that also seems to align with how I take notes. It’s the support of various obscure web gotchas and things like in-browser visualizations that worry me. I run into issues of some page not loading properly on Firefox and have to fire up Chrome, I imagine for a brand new browser that’d be the case even more so
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#7> Save up to 2 hours every day by organizing your work seamlessly and reducing daily stress. Aaaaaaaand into the bullshit box it goes.
You know you don't have time for this, get back to organizing your tabs!
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#8Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.
If true, horse browser devs need to read the Security section on Electron docs:
> With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle.
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#pre...
I feel like they should’ve used Chromium.
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#9Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.
If true, horse browser devs need to read the Security section on Electron docs: > With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle. https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#pre... I feel like they should’ve used Chromium.
Ah so I think they embed Chromium separately to run the browser views. I don't believe they are rendering any web content, just that all the browser chrome (sorry, overloaded term) is in Electron.
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#10I bought a lifetime license to Horse a while ago but haven’t really used it until recently (Arc is my main).
It’s pretty good, opinionated, but it doesn’t support extensions. The built-in ad blocker is okay but Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin are my winning combo in mainstream browsers. I also use Raindrop in a regular basis so until Horse at least supports those three extensions, it won’t be my main browser.