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deepdarkforest parent
This is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the first hint at this. IMO you just cannot move fast enough to grab enough market share as a first/second mover before google just does it on chrome, and that's assuming you can outcompete with Dia in the first place. Even browser-use can do this also, and they have good distribution already.

Good luck, but in your place i would at least start with something that a certain ICP needs more. Many, many manhours have been wasted by ambitious technical founders on taking down Chrome. (many also starting from a chrome fork itself). But none of them succeeded. We only have limited energy


felarof
Thanks for the honest feedback!

Definitely agree there is good amount of competition here.

But we do think there is a gap in the market for open-source, community driven and privacy-first AI browser. (Something like Brave?)

throwaway314155
As long as you don't implement ANY cryptocurrency features or ad-replacement features. I realize you've gotta make money at some point but the current browser landscape is so damn depressing. Even Mozilla Firefox has lost the trust of some of its diminishing userbase.
deepdarkforest OP
remember, gaps in the market sometimes exist for a reason. Forget AI. How many open source, community driven and privacy first browsers have made serious money?

Brave is a decent example but their business model is actually complicated, it includes a lot of little stuff. And they dont have the unit cost of LLMs (im assuming at some point you will take the burden of the llms, if not local)

felarof
Good point. Our thinking so far has been to build good open-source product and then offer enterprise version as paid.

Island browser, chrome enterprise have kinda of validated the need for enterprise version of browser with VPN and DLP engine (data-loss-prevention).

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