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As an early superfan of AI browsers, ChatGPT moving towards a desktop app instead actually makes sense to me. Perplexity Comet has been arguably the most successful product here - and while they have a real base of power users, it's been hard to maintain growth 👇 We've seen this in the past with other fantastic browser products like Dia / Arc - there are a few things that make building a mainstream new browser very hard: 1. It's an extremely high frequency product where users have little tolerance for changes. If even one workflow is disrupted or made more difficult, it's like a paper cut that the user then experiences 100x a day. 2. The browser behavior is so automatic that the physical act of switching and maintaining the switch is hard! There has to be something in the new browser that's so materially better such that you remember to use it. And, if you have to onboard users to the product, you’ve lost. 3. There’s not that much “space” to innovate in the browser. The most important thing is to not disrupt the core experience, and so much is available via extensions that unlocking a 10x for the mainstream user is hard. Chrome works decently well - it’s not a low NPS product where people are desperate to switch. In contrast, desktop apps have proven to be a very fruitful surface for AI-enhanced work - think Cursor, Cowork, etc. Now that you can give a desktop product browser access, the advantage is clear - especially when the desktop app also has native file access and feels more natural to set up recurring workflows in.

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the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.