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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: 0.001s | 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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alberth ◴[04 Sep 25 15:11 UTC] No.45128178[source]▶
Cursor is a VSCode fork, generating reported $500M+ in revenue and is only a couple years old.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/cursors-anysphere-nabs-9-9...

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1. Sebguer ◴[04 Sep 25 15:41 UTC] No.45128525{3}[source]▶
Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...