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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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petralithic ◴[04 Sep 25 14:48 UTC] No.45127917[source]▶
What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so many vibe coded clones were made of?

What was even the point of all this roundabout engineering and the time and manpower to do so? What a waste. This seems more like an acquihire than actually about IP.

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ivanjermakov ◴[04 Sep 25 14:52 UTC] No.45127958[source]▶
Why would anyone acquire a company that made a successful VSCode fork or a wrapped Chromium browser? I expect these people making such decisions to be far from understanding tech behind it.
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1. conradev ◴[04 Sep 25 15:02 UTC] No.45128085[source]▶
In The Browser Company’s case, they have a lot of engineers who work on Chromium. Not sure about the other wrapper companies!