This is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the first hint at this. IMO you just cannot move fast enough to grab enough market share as a first/second mover before google just does it on chrome, and that's assuming you can outcompete with Dia in the first place. Even browser-use can do this also, and they have good distribution already.

Good luck, but in your place i would at least start with something that a certain ICP needs more. Many, many manhours have been wasted by ambitious technical founders on taking down Chrome. (many also starting from a chrome fork itself). But none of them succeeded. We only have limited energy

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felarof 2 days ago | parent [-]

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?)

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deepdarkforest 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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)

	▲	felarof 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		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).

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throwaway314155 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.