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Couple things:

1) It wasn't a "10x better" product. Partly due to M1, partly due to people moving away from browser for apps like Figma + Notion, but it's just not compelling enough to pay ~$30/mo.

2) Low margins. It's not cheap to run their stack— I suspect high price was necessary to offset the cost of running.

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3) Target market doesn't need the product. IIRC, their target was high-performance teams, but those teams will just buy the best machines. They don't need a better browser.

4) the most important reason: people do not like new browsers. They just don't catch on, for some reason.

Context: i worked there for a bit.

I’ve been a Mighty user and agree with most of these points.

The only one that I might disagree with is the new browsers one. Working at Adblock, we’re hypersensitive to changes in browser user sizes. The new Edge and Brave have both exploded in growth.

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i was more so referring to random upstarts trying to compete… but that is probably a healthy sign!