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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Our vision for Act II of @arcinternet

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

Arc browser is now live on Windows... ...and it's built in Swift!!!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

👏Goodbye, Google Search👏 Starting today, you can now set Perplexity as your default search engine in Arc browser...

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Josh Miller

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3 months

a little Sunday surprise for you... meet @browsercompany 's 2nd product: 🔍Arc Search🔎 it's a default browser for your iPhone ...that BROWSES FOR YOU the origin story is a bit unusual so I wanted to give you the full backstory:

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Josh Miller

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5 months

Thank you @Apple 🦾 @ArcInternet coming to an iPhone near you soon...

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Josh Miller

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1 year

Microsoft Edge ripped off a beloved Arc feature… Today we fight back with a big surprise… Your move, Satya…

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 month

HUGE hiring news to share: Apple’s Safari browser has 2 lead designers. Today we’re welcoming one of them, @charliedeets , to the @browsercompany team !! It’s a big deal for us — and plays into a larger strategic bet we’re making in 2024. Here’s a peek behind the curtain…

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Josh Miller

@joshm

7 months

‼️ 𝐀𝐫𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐒 𝐢𝐬 ~𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞~ ‼️ (very WIP UI but this screenshot is a real live app) more news soon... we'll send out the first invites before the end of the year, and really ramp early next!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

It's official: @browsercompany is reimagining the mobile browser from the ground-up! Sync with @arcinternet desktop will be core. But we want to do the mobile form factor justice. Blank page! What's your dream for a mobile browser from the future? And please like replies to +1

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

My wife & I welcomed our 2nd son into the world last week. Everyone’s healthy & home from hospital 💖 Since I missed @browsercompany ’s Series B announcement gonna instead share the raw “story behind the story” of what went down. Stuff I’m “not supposed to say” but is real…

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

I feel like Notion, Airtable, Replit, The Browser Company, etc. need to form some sort of Rebel Alliance against the Oligopoly that is Microsoft, Google and Apple.

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

☀️Browser Company Los Angeles☀️ Officially open for business!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Maybe my favorite feature we’ve ever shipped: Pinch on any website in the Arc Search app — like you’re pinching 🤏 to zoom out — and we’ll fold it down (origami-style) to summarize the page for you! Feels SO GOOD & saves so much time when people text you links on the go!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

we're bringing back skeuomorphism @browsercompany (...and building our first mobile app in public 👇)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

11 days

More proud today than any in @browsercompany history Not bc Arc is now on Windows (yay!), but bc of HOW this team pulled it off 🥇 Arc is the 1st Windows app built in Swift 💪 We share 80% of code btwn Mac & Windows 🫂 Built alongside 150k testers <3 THE BIG BET PAID OFF!!!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

in 2019, i would ride the subway & daydream... "what if when I arrived at work the thing that I was reading on my phone was up and waiting for me on my computer?" today @ArcInternet for iPhone is live in the App Store, and look what it can do...

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

I just saw Arc IRL in a coffee shop for the first time 🥹 Me so happy

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

On plane to the USA for a two week trip!! During this period @browsercompany will... 📱ship a (new) default iPhone browser 🌐 unveil Act II of @arcinternet 🌸 release a bundle of new desktop features 🪟 send tens of thousands of Windows invites ...wish us luck! Big moment 🫂

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Josh Miller

@joshm

11 months

demo of a @browsercompany AI feature for Arc manipulate websites (via code) using natural language longer video with context on Browser Co YouTube page

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

submitting new @arcinternet mobile browser to Apple today !!! in celebration, here's one of my fav directions we prototyped (inspired by the iPhone wallet app):

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

these just arrived @browsercompany ... who wants one?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

we get so distracted online today constantly context switching ------------------------------ @browsercompany 's latest is a remedy for the chaos ------------------------ it's an in-app browser for *every website* on the internet --------------- meet "Peek" by Arc :-)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

The tech industry is generally lacking CEOs who are fantastic role models. I'm most happy for the @figma acquisition because it means the next generation of founders will look at @zoink and conclude: "I can be a kind, humble, generous human and still win" 💙💙💙

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

Tomorrow, we’re releasing a small but mighty feature that moves us closer to... A ✨Post-Google✨ Internet Now Arc will automatically suggest @ChatGPTapp — instead of Google — for certain search queries. Why is this such a big deal, and what does it tease about our future?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

have you ever wondered... 🤔 • how Arc will make money • when Arc Mobile • plan for 2023 • what is a Board Meeting 👇we got u @browsercompany

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

🥹🥹🥹

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

It was an intense weekend @browsercompany The highest-highs: over 100k people joined the Arc waitlist in the past 2 weeks (a new record). And lowest-lows: the @browsercompany had 100% of cash at SVB (all resolved & okay now). Feeling grateful today – Mobile dropping soon!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

damn what a way to head into the new year 🥲🙏🙏

Arc is the best web browser to come out in the last decade

Chrome has suppressed everyone for too long. The Browser Company and CEO Josh Miller are making Arc, a new and better web browser that’s prettier, more powerful, and actually fun to use.

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Fascinating, early Arc Search data: Over the past 10 hours, 40.1% of all search queries in Arc Search relied on our “Browse for Me” feature instead of Google. Wayyy higher than expected — and this is a v1.0! Imagine when speed & quality improves? A paradigm shift is happening!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

hey @arcinternet mems SO energizing to see your reaction to Arc Search!! it's 10:15 pm here at office – gonna be a late one to respond to this outpouring moving our Act II vid to Thurs so we can do right by you & this Arc Search launch thx for the love today, see ya then✌️

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

We're rolling our own native @arcinternet Ad & Tracker Blocker in 2024 (since Chrome is restricting them)... Any creative ideas for how we can go above and beyond, and reimagine the category? Remove GDPR/Cookie Consents? What else?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

Darin Fisher built the first prototype of Google Chrome... ...and then spent *16 yrs* growing it to billions of people, as VP of Chrome. He spun up ChromeOS too 🤯 Today @darinwf joins the @browsercompany – a surreal & seminal moment for us! Learn why:

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

Quick gut check @arcinternet members: What do you think of Collapsible Pinned Tabs, courtesy of @juliaroggatz and @daraoke ? Ship it?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves !! new year, new energy, going for it

Arc

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𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 textures for Arc Mobile? 🖌️🎨 by @karlamickens

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

on january 30th, the internet is coming to you

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

going to bed, see ya tomorrow 🙏

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

The Browser Company of New York '22

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

The @BrowserCompany Keynote starts in 10 min arc . net / browse

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

"Arc Search" for iPhone, one month later: 🫂 512k accounts created (organic) 💪 102k DAUs 🤓 Millions of custom webpages created Next up: "Browse for Me" will become more powerful & we'll sand edges of default browser experience. What's your #1 request for Arc Search

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Need your help: This morning, our app the #1 search result for "Arc Search" in the App Store. Now we're #18 & there are many Games ahead of us. Any idea why this may be happening / how to Fix (reached out to Apple Rep)?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

Had a nice convo w/ @AravSrinivas – we have similar aspirations & desire for a new guard. Now you'll be able to set @perplexity_ai as your default search engine in Arc browser. Follow @arcinternet to learn when it's live (any week now). Demo below. Toward a new internet!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

Today – and today only – every @arcinternet member is getting... 1 invite to 🪟ARC FOR WINDOWS 🪟 to gift to a friend or colleague (skips the waitlist). Our way of saying thank you to our long-time supporters on Mac! We appreciate you!!! 👇Click this in Arc today to redeem👇

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

Who wants Split Screen in @arcinternet ’s new default mobile browser?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

damn this hits different... i've been reading reviews by MacStories' @viticci since i started in this industry 🥲🥲🥲

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

Claude, Mistral, Gemini, etc. – feels like foundation models might commoditize (for now at least). If so, then value in AI will accrue to the interfaces. But which AI interfaces are people *actually* using? ChatGPT, Github Copilot, and...? This is big prize of 2024 imo.

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

Proud by this company we keep: Arc Max – our bundle of AI features in @arcinternet – was runner-up as @ProductHunt 's Product of Year. We lost to @OpenAI 's GPT-4 – the most remarkable invention of the decade. Appreciate you 75k voters!

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Josh Miller

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 years

Just setting up my brwsr 🔊 @browsercompany

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Yesterday was a very special day. One of the most meaningful of my career. Wanted to say thank you again 💙 There’s so much to figure out together. But how lucky are we all that there’s an opening to reconsider how our internet works? Whether our vision or another, I’m hopeful!

Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

Our vision for Act II of @arcinternet

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

the new era of tech begins... watch this until the end, 2024 is gonna be wild

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Josh Miller

@joshm

10 days

Yesterday we had more new Arc accounts created than on any other day in @browsercompany history 💪 We appreciate you!!!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

big year big year big year for this crew leaving it all on the field

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

🪟Arc for Windows Update🪟 🧪 ~100k beta testers onboarded 📈 ~1 million people on waitlist 📅 Opening to GA before Summer 🥇 1st major Windows app built in Swift Shoutout to @alexandracoding and the team!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

We're redesigning the loading animation in @browsercompany 's new Arc Search app. Any ideas? Design constraints: 1. Bold enough to notice but not distracting 2. Pulls eyes to top 25% of screen 3. Fun & on brand w/ our vibe Would love suggestions from members ( @avstorm @jsngr )!!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

Want a glimpse of @browsercompany 's future? Now Spaces in Arc can morph into their own 🔒separate browsers🔒 — each with their own history, cookies, extensions, settings & more. No more futzing with multiple account logins or worrying about your boss seeing private stuff👻

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 month

@googlechrome Chromium! Thank you!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

30 days

I know @browsercompany has been ~talking~ A LOT 😅 about the “browser that browses for you” idea But we’ve also been prototyping furiously — from voice-powered interfaces to AutoPilot workflows. Today, only 2 months after our Act II unveiling, we SHIPPED our first big idea…

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

Arc is coming to Windows in 2023 🚨with a twist🚨 Instead of using C#, Arc for Windows will be built using... Swift ‼️ This is @browsercompany 's biggest R&D bet yet 🤞 @hursh on why we'll need to innovate on Compilers, UI Design, & more:

videofile_: windows is our biggest bet yet

If our vision is to become the "internet computer" of the future, Windows is a pretty important platform. But how we're building Arc for Windows is..... kind...

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

as someone who can’t code, i’ve always felt like I live in someone else’s internet it has been a lifelong dream to give people, like me, the tools to make the internet feel like it was made for them today @browsercompany does just that BOOOOOSTS 🔊 full-screen, sound on 🔊

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

Arc on Apple's VisionOS? (shoutout to u/jochev_v on reddit)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

7 months

Big, big @arcinternet release* dropping this Thursday... Guess what it is based on this interface teaser? (*I know we've been saying that a lot but the @browsercompany team is absolutely on fire right now)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

Search @OpenAI 's ChatGPT directly from CMD-T in your Arc browser. What do you think? This internal prototype works, but is brittle. Any chance you want to provide us with a URL to deep-link folks to ChatGPT directly @gdb @sama ?

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

Just sent 2k invites to @arcinternet for Windows!! We'll increase # each week until we clear 750k+ waitlist in Spring. Reason for waitlist is to dial in stability, performance, and parity with Mac before going to GA. Keeping close eye on retention (looking good so far 🤞

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 months

We spun @browsercompany out of @ThriveCapital . When I decided to leave Thrive to join as CEO, @JoshuaKushner called me out of the blue to give us a bunch of Thrive’s stake back. For free. No strings attached. “It’s the right thing to do.” Class act.

How Josh Kushner became a billionaire startup investor before age 40

Early bets on Instagram, Spotify and OpenAI made Kushner an in-demand VC.

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

The Browser Company of New York '23

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Josh Miller

@joshm

3 months

The @browsercompany storytellers 💖 The best in the business bringing you our Act II vision tomorrow !!!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

It's my 4 year @browsercompany anniversary 🥳 This is one of the first pics we ever took, a few weeks before the COVID lockdowns in NYC...

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

feeling peak inspired right now idk what's going to happen but 2024 is a big one sending out all of the "let's do this" vibes to other folks dreaming and prototyping in this moment

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

The entire @browsercompany team is in Portugal this week, dreaming up what we hope to bring you next year in Arc. What's on your wish list for us and Arc? Windows is coming! (P.S. how good is the style and spirit in this brand design work that @karlamickens has been doing?!)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

we @browsercompany challenged ourselves to make the 🧃 juiciest🧃 video player on desktop what if internet videos – from netflix to youtube – felt *more native* to MacOS than what Apple ships? dropping in today's @arcinternet build, starting w/ picture-in-picture 👇 🔊 🔊 🔊

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Josh Miller

@joshm

2 months

@arcinternet the most Windows native feeling browser... is built with an Apple programming language... and not made by Microsoft... big moment incoming!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

Why do so many of you want Arc sidebar on the right?! We prototyped this, but learned Sidebar on right is inefficient ergonomically bc gravity of URLs is always top-left. Long way for cursors & eyes to travel! What are we missing tho? Open-minded! (thx @disco_lu for mocks)

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Josh Miller

@joshm

6 months

You joke but… wait until we patent this “Color Swatch” UX for @browsercompany ’s new mobile app 🙃😅🙃

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6 months

What you need is accordion tabs

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Josh Miller

@joshm

5 days

"Cruise Control for your Internet" It will happen @browsercompany – the question is, when? Our promise to you is to remain humble, measured, and honest – the tech is just NOT there yet today. But a future like this (with a new UI/UX) IS coming at some point...

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Josh Miller

@joshm

8 months

🫡🫡🫡

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

Lil' personal life update: 🇫🇷 I'm moving to Paris – for one year – starting in September! 🇫🇷 I'll be working from @an21m 's @amoamoamo office (one of my fav crews), and living in the 6th. Anyone want to hang? Who should I meet while I'm there?!

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Josh Miller

@joshm

4 years

Meet the @browsercompany ! We're building a new web browser – equipped for the way we use the internet in 2020: If you think about it, our web browsers still do what they did twenty-five years ago. Feels like it's time for a change! Here's our story...

The Browser Company | Building Arc

We’re building a better way to use the internet, starting with your browser. Let go of the clicks, clutter, and distraction with Arc.

thebrowser.company

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Josh Miller

@joshm

1 year

An Arc member ("maxiam" on YT) programmed the lights in their room to match the color theme of their current Arc Space 🤯

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@joshm

1 year

seven months ago, we announced that @browsercompany wasn't building a browser – we were building "an internet computer": starting tomorrow it will start to make much more sense🤗 I'm so excited not sure I'll be able to fall asleep!!!

videofile_ : the internet computer

August 18th, 2022First came the business computer, then the personal computer. Hear more about what comes next from Josh — and the role Arc has to play in th...

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Josh Miller

@joshm

7 months

Wowww we're already hitting rate limits on @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI from the Arc Max launch Can anyone please help?!

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@joshm

2 years

Just unboxing my @browsercompany 🔊

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@joshm

1 year

🤩 @MKBHD says he loves "Arc" 🤩 (...plus the story of when @alexandracoding almost quit @browsercompany bc of what i wanted to name it instead...)

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@joshm

16 days

No matter where you go, and no matter which device, we believe your internet should go with you 🌏 Starting today, your Arc tabs, folders, & spaces SYNC in real-time across iPhone (Arc Search), Mac, & Windows. Android in the works. Here’s a demo from the new Arc Search app:

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@joshm

3 months

After two weeks on the road, we back!!!

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@joshm

4 months

"When they go low, you go high" – @MichelleObama On that note, eager to share @arcinternet 's Act II with you on January 30th... having fun🤗

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10 months

The original sketch for @ArcInternet , circa late 2019

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@joshm

1 year

This Arc companion app is among the purest product work we've ever shipped – zero fat. It's NOT a replacement for your default mobile browser (yet). But it teases our dreams for the future of computing. New swipes & smiles coming soon – pre-order here:

The Browser Company

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1 year

Arc for iPhone is almost here... 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 🔗 Pre-order link in bio! 🔗

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10 months

a little message from @browsercompany to you all <3 (just recorded, no script, a bit at a loss for words!)

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@joshm

10 months

We sold over 2,500 Arc v1.0 stickers yesterday 🤯😭

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5 months

Honestly, building Arc in Swift on Windows is one of the most controversial things we've ever done. Basically everybody told us it was a "stupid" idea for like ten reasons. Except for @hursh , who always leads from a place of abundant creativity about what else is possible.

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7 months

the Windows (OS) team at Microsoft was apparently just re-org'd to sit under the Edge (browser) team 🙃 the browser of the future will feel more like an OS, and the OS of the future will feel more like a browser "internet computers" are inevitable!

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@joshm

1 year

welcome to new @browsercompany engineers! Sébastien Marchand – 11 yrs on Google Chrome Wendy Li – 4 yrs on Microsoft Edge Hiroshi Yamauchi – 17 yrs on LLVM & compilers @ Google Joel Henning – 4 yrs on Marqeta security Arc for Windows (based on Swift) is en route!

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3 months

I went on The @Verge 's podcast to talk about our new vision for the @browsercompany . Warning: it's 1 hour of nerdy talk about Operating Systems and the like but was a lot of fun:

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Josh Miller

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3 months

You'll hear about @arcinternet 's future shortly. But more than anything we'll be dialed-in on sculpting the fundamentals going forward. A recent fav that many missed: now you can click on Space headers to collapse your Pinned tabs & get extra space to breath while you browse 👇

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3 months

What are "websites" in an AI-first internet? (thinking aloud, no idea, would love feedback)

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3 months

Arc Search now has Incognito Mode… …complete with eyes 👀 that close when you tap them (to privately browse):

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@joshm

1 year

Next week's @ArcInternet update is going to be one of our most exciting of the year 🎨🌐

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@joshm

3 months

How do you want Arc to browse for you? What are your daily workflows or tasks that require the most steps/searches/clicking? We'll try to prototype the top requests!

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1 year

New hires at @browsercompany 's Brooklyn office!

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@joshm

7 months

🔍 A𝗋𝖼 S𝖾𝖺𝗋𝖼𝗁 🔎 If Aliens arrived it'd be hard to explain why your Web Browser & Search Engine are different products (hint: $). What if we merged Search + ChatGPT *within* Arc's CMD Bar so you didn't need to go anywhere? Any other native Search+AI in browser ideas?

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