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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.

design @splits | /wireframe /latenightcrew /event-pass /feud

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.

What was the thinking a priori, when you joined? I remember naysayers made the point that they'd just buy better machines... what was Mighty's response at the time to a comment like that?

That’s really interesting. In a sense, Mighty was short Moore’s Law, or long performance creep of applications. 

I am honestly surprised that there wasn’t a really well-developed response at that point because Suhail seems like a thoughtful guy. Thank you for sharing.

I don’t have a great answer here bc they ignored the naysayers for the most part 😅

but keep in mind in 2019 (when i was there), M1 wasn’t a thing yet. I think the bigger issue was people moving out of the browser into native apps (like figma)