Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

I'm a huge fan of Arc and generally not a fan of TBCNY due to their abandonment of the browser for their AI hype machine, Dia. What's odd about this acquisition is that the move to Dia was (publicly) presented as a move toward the consumer; that consumers weren't ready for a radical reinvention of the browser interface so it made sense to revert to something more standard if you wanted to do something new with the browser.

I always saw Dia as fundamentally a move toward AI investor bux, but I did find the "Arc was too novel for large uptake" a reasonable perspective.

Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

My dream for Arc, from the beginning, was that it could act as a middle-man between all the various SaaS platforms we use daily at work. Imagine: your Shortcut tickets link automatically to Slack and you can one-click open the relevant Slack channel in a side-by-side view.

We do so much switching between contexts and imo the browser could be a great surface for improving our workflows.

Opera and Vivaldi have some impressive features up their sleeves. Similar philosophies to Arc Browser. Worth giving them a try!

> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

sometimes you just find a big enterprise sucker who's desperate to stay relevant.

> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

Do you know why Windows computers ended up dominating the home PC market?

Because everyone was using them at work, and they wanted the same experience they were familiar with.

Hundreds of millions of regular old people use Atlassian’s products every day at work.

If they get familiar with a browser that helps them get their work done faster, they’ll demand it at home, too.

> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business.

They do - Trello.