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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dtagames ◴[04 Sep 25 12:40 UTC] No.45126577[source]▶
This is so strange. How would Atlassian convince their enterprise customers to switch browsers? That seems really unlikely, and unnecessary.

The main feature being touted is the ability to take context from multiple tabs and ... do something with it? So unconstrained access to what you're doing in multiple tabs feeding into exactly what and why? The announcement is concerning because it mentions "AI skills" which are, of course, nonexistent.

If anything, the "arc" of The Browser Company proves a fundamental tenet of the post-capitalist era: You can get rich without making or selling any products that anyone wants. It's all stock transactions between wealthly elites. The software, if any, is an afterthought.

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1. DanielHB ◴[04 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45127120[source]▶
They bought Trello as well, I haven't used Atlassian stuff in like 3 years but as far as I remember it didn't really work out well inside Jira.
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2. dtagames ◴[04 Sep 25 14:05 UTC] No.45127423[source]▶
They recently decided to destroy Trello, too. They bought it because it was a legit alternative to Jira for small teams and basically left it alone after the acquisition. But recently they've decided that it's too much of an alternative so it had to be crippled to remove the team features, turning it into a personal information manager that no one asked for.
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3. DanielHB ◴[04 Sep 25 14:10 UTC] No.45127478[source]▶
Luckily they didn't buy Linear, if anything they removed an early-competitor for them.