Comment by felarof
6 months ago
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?)
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.
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)
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).