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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 5 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 1.065s | source
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nerdjon ◴[04 Sep 25 12:50 UTC] No.45126672[source]▶
What is with this need for a single application to do so many different tasks instead of just being focused on doing its job and doing it well (browsing the web in this case).

I just don't understand how they can with a straight face say "Today’s browsers weren’t built for work." when their entire business relies on browsers ability to do exactly that and have basically been fine (heavy javascript usage in Jira aside which this is not going to magically fix).

Looking at any of this I just don't see what this is actually supposed to solve.

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1. threetonesun ◴[04 Sep 25 12:54 UTC] No.45126708[source]▶
Zawinski's Law in action.

I suppose the good thing with AI is we're coming close to being able to roll our own versions of whatever we want when the software we were using ascends to the enterprise plane.

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2. ozgrakkurt ◴[04 Sep 25 12:56 UTC] No.45126729[source]▶
I would like to see you and all people think that they can roll own software with AI come together with AI as well and write chromium one day
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3. threetonesun ◴[04 Sep 25 13:19 UTC] No.45126964[source]▶
I don't think I was suggesting you build your own Chromium so much as do what all these other browser projects do and fork it. The "software A got too bloated so we released software B" cycle is eternal but I'm optimistic it's moving even closer to the actual user than it has been in a while.
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4. bargainbin ◴[04 Sep 25 13:36 UTC] No.45127138{3}[source]▶
Anecdotally the company I work for is scuppered by bureaucracy when it comes to getting tools to work with, yet they want us to work at unhindered startup.

We’ve found it’s actually quicker to just recreate the app (Postman, Obsidian, Claude desktop) than it is to go through the rigmarole of getting the download/license approved.

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5. drzaiusx11 ◴[04 Sep 25 14:11 UTC] No.45127482{4}[source]▶
And now you have to maintain all those tool clones! Seems like a losing battle and waste of resources to me. This is just not-invented-here syndrome wearing a different sweater