One of the great secular trends of the past fifteen years has been software moving from the desktop to the browser. In 2010, you would install Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop and use it entirely offline and on your own. Today, you do the same work in Google Docs or Figma in your browser, always online and collaborative. Personally, the only software on my system other than Firefox and Chrome is VSCode. That’s it. I interface with almost everything through the browser,
Any learnings? Any interesting conversations? This feels like the sort of thing that could be bigger if the norms/marketing around extensions changed somewhat.
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Neat! This is great to see! When did you launch this?
A couple years ago!
Any learnings? Any interesting conversations? This feels like the sort of thing that could be bigger if the norms/marketing around extensions changed somewhat.
Really Cool!
I believe AI will also play an important role here (for instance in automation tasks).
On "the browser becoming the core interoperability layer", do you think improvements in internet connectivity are also a reason?