<story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&amp;#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car  driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &amp;quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&amp;#x27;s FREE? That&amp;#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&amp;quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&amp;#x2F;usage&amp;#x2F;praise 18 mo later.&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&amp;#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&amp;#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.&lt;p&gt;I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&amp;#x2F;month per user...&lt;p&gt;EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&amp;#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that at all, I&amp;#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&amp;#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&amp;#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&amp;#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&amp;#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mosr</author><text>Really interesting service.&lt;p&gt;Why might I use this instead of &amp;#x2F; in addition to Shadow (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shadow.tech&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;shadow.tech&lt;/a&gt;)? I&amp;#x27;m a Shadow user, and they seem to give you beefier hardware at half the price, and it&amp;#x27;s a general purpose OS that will let you run any app (as opposed to &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; a browser).</text></comment>
<story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&amp;#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car  driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &amp;quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&amp;#x27;s FREE? That&amp;#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&amp;quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&amp;#x2F;usage&amp;#x2F;praise 18 mo later.&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&amp;#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&amp;#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.&lt;p&gt;I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&amp;#x2F;month per user...&lt;p&gt;EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&amp;#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&amp;#x27;m not saying that at all, I&amp;#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&amp;#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&amp;#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&amp;#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&amp;#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewguenther</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not skeptical at all the people would pay for this. I worked on a cloud browser for seven years, there&amp;#x27;s a bunch of different market needs for this stuff. But $30-50 feels really high. We got feedback from enterprise customers that they were looking in the $5-15 range per user per month. That said, we pushed the security angle much more than performance, so the dynamics are a bit different.&lt;p&gt;Congrats on all the work here. Browser streaming isn&amp;#x27;t easy stuff!</text></comment>