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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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thor-rodrigues ◴[04 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45129033[source]▶
I’m not sure whether I find it more worrisome or fascinating that we live in a world where a company that, as far as I know, has never generated a single dollar in revenue has managed to exist for over five years, employ more than 100 people, and still get acquired for this amount.

This isn’t criticism or sarcasm — I’m genuinely impressed, but also very curious about the rationale behind it.

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porridgeraisin ◴[04 Sep 25 16:36 UTC] No.45129136[source]▶
Atlassian essentially got a big fairly locked-in userbase that they will now squeeze using their existing proven mechanisms. Oh and they probably got a few free competent developers without needing to go through an expensive hiring process.

All told, probably worth 610M.

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mritchie712 ◴[04 Sep 25 16:48 UTC] No.45129271[source]▶
are they locked-in tho? People loved Arc, but they killed it. Doesn't seem the reviews of Dia are all that great.
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1. andruby ◴[04 Sep 25 18:47 UTC] No.45130808[source]▶
I love Arc. I tried Dia. I wanted to like it but don't see how it's going to be valuable for me.

The browser features are _much_ worse than Arc (no sidebar, bookmarks are a dropdown, ...) and most of the time the AI can't even "see" or "read" what's on the page I'm viewing, so it's just worse than using Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini.

I'm still using Arc and will probably continue until there's another browser that copies its UI/UX improvements.