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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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1. jmull ◴[04 Sep 25 15:04 UTC] No.45128114[source]▶
> What was the Browser Company even doing?

Probably something like this all along.

If you have investors, and give away for free a product that costs a lot of money to develop, there is surely a strategy for those investors to get their money back, plus a lot more.

It doesn't always work, of course. But it seems to have worked well in this case.