Why we just raised a new round of funding | Ep 0 

If you do break, make Arc open source and give it to the community!

I couldn't cope with going back to a standard browser. Arc has made everything so much easier to manage.

Love how transparent The Browser Company is with what's going on. It makes me a bit nostalgic of the times I worked at a start up haha

Ever since I started using Arc, whenever a situation comes along where I have to use a different browser, that sick feeling in my stomach always appears, like, "Ugh, noooooo. I thought I didn't need to eat that anymore!"

You guys need to make it... switching back to another browser is not an option for me... I'm too much in love with Arc!

Are you okay that you need to Sign Up to use Arc? ⛔not in my case! When a CTO says you need an account and that it's not nefarious, the fine print is always "for now", no matter how nice they seem to be. IMO siuch a company will have to deal a lot of trouble.

not looking forward to them making AI browser

I founded a startup with a team about 6 years ago, we have and are doing things in a very non-typical way. We have been blessed year by year in crazy ways to keep our company going and growing despite all odds, and typically at the last minute, God comes in and says "I am not done with you yet" and somehow, miraculously, the journey continues every time and better than before.What you all are doing documenting your journey and being open about it, is very cool and myself and probably so many others wish they did this when they weren't in the place they wanted to be. I think we are all thinking, we will tell our story when we make it, and later we realize there is never and end just more growth and new battles that we are hopefully more equipped for. I guess this mellow dramatic short story of a comment is to say, I love what you all are doing, both in product and in story. Rooting for you all for the journey to keep going.

I applaud your boldness and transparency. Unshipping to center yourselves around the core features, that's a bold move. I'm rooting for you guys!

Guys, make a paid Pro version for the costly computing elements! I can’t go back to traditional browser, and I don’t want my data to be mined by big corp… Thanks a bunch and keep it forwarding moving and well intended ❤

I ❤ARC and hope you make it work!

I don't want to go back to another browser. That pretty much sums it up as far as value proposition you have on the market right now.

Finally some new Arc content on YT. Looking forward to the next episode, and we'll be rooting for you guys!

You need to stick around. Also, you've already solved tabs for me for the most part. I love how you operate. Keep going!

Starting this with J Dilla’s “Bye.” Just moved me to the core, and this thing is a trailer for how you guys might or might not be gone in a year, so I don’t who picked that song but oh my god they did a beyond perfect work in choosing it, huuuuge props, seriously

Absolutely admire how bold of a move you're making with this video series! I applaud you all at The Browser Company. You're setting an example for all startups around the world to follow! I'd love to work with y'all!

Good luck! I genuinely can’t imagine my day-to-day without Arc

We believe in this. You believe in this. You guys are gonna make it and we are all here for it.

Please don’t die! ❤ You guys and the browser are amazing - such a breath of fresh air! I think many people would even pay for a small subscription. I don’t think it should just be for the AI stuff (I pretty much don’t use it), but just a fee to support you guys in general would definitely be something I’m willing to pay. I guess there’s also some people around here that could come up with some power user features that you could paywall which wouldn’t use regular users. I mean, we all spend so much time in a browser in any week, that it would only make sense to pay to get a better and more efficient experience! I barely touched any other browser for so long already, and whenever I do they all feel ancient now!

Guys! Please make it, Im sure the community will help you, Arc has been a life changing experience for me

Love the transparency! And continue to love using Arc! Keep up the great work!

I mentioned this when I applied to your ML Position: Marketing, marketing, marketing is the key; which requires lots of $$$

Wish you the best of luck guys. Have discovered Arc last week and I believe it is the best piece of tech I have seen this year and definitely one which will have the biggest impact on my life this year for sure.

Two cents as a long term user of Arc - I have absolutely ZERO interest in AI / Talk based interfaces until the Tab interface problem is "solved". Right now I feel like I have about half the tools I need to manage tabs as an information worker.

I am willing to pay a subscription to make sure Arc does not go away! Arc has changed my life!

I'm using the Windows version, after waiting more than a year to be able to use it, and now I refuse to use another browser in my life, so I hope you make it, and if not, that at least it remains for the community in the future.

I gave arc a try after I ditched chrome for safari. I'm a developer who uses vim (btw), and prefer using the keyboard whenever I can. i feel the way arc organizes profiles, spaces, and tabs, makes it very keyboard friendly to switch between stuff, cmd+s to show the sidebar, ctr+num to switch between spaces, etc... air traffic control is also a great feature. some arc max features are neat but I don't use them that much. the arc team seems great, im also a dev who works in a startup so i relate a lot. i don't mind paying for arc if that means I can keep using it

I 200% consider PAYING for using arc. This browser has hands down changed the way we use internet.

Love ARC, can't imagine my online life without it! Keep the great service!

i hope you guys make it cause honestly Arc is the first product i've been excited about in years !!

First of all: I LOVE ARC. But when I saw the introduction of the video and you saying "Idk if we are going to make it" and then the cutscene where you a drinking san pellegrino. Here is the first step: cut out the water that cost 20x normal water prices! :D

i cant't go back to another browser, i hope Arc is here to stay. yall will thrive!

The charm offensive is on! If this is you guys pulling the wool over my eyes, it worked. I'm rooting for y'all.

I'm happy to pay a monthly subscription to continue using Arc! Just imagine going back to the old browser... ugh, let's not even think about it.

Ahh, true that guys. I am a UX Designer, working at a UX Consultancy and everytime I mention the arc browser to my colleagues or my friends and present them with the same idea of, "Ohh, have you seen this browser and then show them." They have really different views on it and reasons on why the switch. But, I feel. I've loved it, maybe because I am a tech enthusiasts who loves to test new products or maybe its something else. But, I am always like a not so optimistic Josh. I would love for it survive and break it to its next levels. All the best, guys!

Love the transparency around all the things, the incredible browser that is Arc and hey, when its time to pay for Arc... Shut Up And Take My Money!

Como empresa admiro su optimismo y resolución de darle hacia adelante, y la propuesta del browser Arc, maravilloso, eso si ,"no se duerman en los laureles" que este tiempo y este mundo globalizado van raudos y uds no han salido abiertamente al publico, y la competencia y la guerra y el mercado de navegadores es dura.

I love Arc, you guys have to make it. For us, for the community. Also, please tell us how we can help. We've got this, together. 🙌

You've got this! Solid product there, with customer experience truly at its heart. Funds secured, impressive sponsors on board, and a team filled with ambition and just the right attitude. You're a fun bunch, not too caught up in seriousness-a trait common among the clever and successful. There's plenty of that spirit over at TBC / Arc.

You guys are definitely not "The Boring Company"! I've found out I don't want just a new, well-designed, fun browser. I want to be tuned in to your team, part of your team by testing, using, and telling people about Arc. Keep the videos and releases coming! And most of all, good luck my friends.

I'm ready to pay a fee every year to use Arc. I can't work without your product now

I'm rooting for you! I tell everyone about arc all the time!

I just got back from a dinner party and all i did was get arc search downloaded on all iPhones.. And blew some minds.

Its crazy for how many browsers are out there, Arc stands out as very nice to use. Still missing a few key features (tab groups, firefox containers) that make me still use firefox, but I can “mostly” use Arc

Please dont let Arc break, if it does, give it to the community to handle it. Love it and i hope you succeed. Best browser

Well, EVERY Start-Up (and grown Companies, too!) has to answer the one most important question at one point in their early lives: "How can I make money for a living with the product or service I am about to offer?!" So, as long as this (pretty) simple question is unanswered, the company has no chance of survival! And if it comes to a Browser, the only possible answers are: 1. We sell (or use them for personalized ads) personal information 2. We provide a "Pro"-Version with a more or less high monthly payment, which will be presented to the user as a certain number of "Cup of Coffee". BTW, I could never drink that much coffee. I already have spent money on other companies' monthly payments (collected once a year)...

Maybe some big corporation will buy them once they have a huge user base. I love Arc Browser!

Great storytelling. Keep it up! 👌

fingers crossed! 🤞🏼 couldn't live without arc tbh...

The philosophy of "You Have To Be In The Water" serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of active engagement, foresight, and adaptability in innovation. It's a call to action for those involved in design thinking and empathic design to immerse themselves fully in their environment, understand the needs and shifts within it, and be ready to act when opportunities arise. This proactive and anticipatory approach is key to creating solutions that are not only innovative but also deeply aligned with human needs and experiences. BEWARE! This is implying that trendy behavior by companies without conducting their own research may be risky. Not the opposite.

Love the idea of these new playbook episodes. I'd also hate to go back to traditional browser tabs, or even trying to customize one. I'm ALSO worried that with this pressure your team has, that you'll start to feature bloat or shoot yourselves in the foot. Which is why I was relieved in this video when one of the devs said "let's get back to the core issues to solve".

Arc does a few very simple things for me. favourite tabs, spaces, side tabs and mini arc. That's all i do with Arc and it's the best so to implement something like that, it is going to be hard if the company goes under but i use opera on my windows and it does pretty much the same without the ease of changing spaces or side bars which i can live with. But all the best, i'll support in the best way that i can

I’m not an Arc user (yet) because in a world of increasingly “generated” content I’m not sure I trust any browser to aggregate answers for me without bias. I don’t know what your monetization strategy will be and I don’t know how my data may eventually be used (or protected). All that said, I’m still rooting for your company because the premise of Arc and how it could reshape the future of the web and how we explore content is very interesting.

Really love your browser! Both Mac and windows. Windows is a bit slower than Mac. For the phone app. It took a while to work my head around it. Would love a reading list for the phone. And groups. Also it would be nice to have some way to save a page for later. A bookmark for some kind. But, I am cheering for you! Thanks for bringing interesting software again!

I personally don’t care about the ai features much. I think that having them behind a paywall or on a “bring your own auth token” would be absolutely fine, and help prevent burning money. I realise that the AI features are probably there to help bring in investor funding but the core idea and usability is so good that i wouldn’t care if it was gone.

I wish you the best, I switched to Arc from Chrome and never looked back.

Long time since I got excited about a browser. In fact I can categorically state that it was using the original Netscape back in the day. Hope you manage to navigate those choppy startup waters because I haven't switched browsers in 15 years and I made the switch to Arc.

I would rather want to use Arc without any updates, that going back to the old browsers!

Oh hyello! Look who's finding some of my favorite songs! I listen to this one all the time!

We love you guys! You are our heroes :)

Browser company can make money! • Student plan: $1/month • Regular plan: $1.5/month • AI plan: $5/month *The dollars I am willing to pay

I would die without Arc.... I'd pay a monthly subscription fee

Team at Arc, I love what you're doing, but you'll need to make a big bet and see it through. It's a really terrifying time, I'm sure, but if you bounce around too much to see what sticks you run the risk of losing momentum behind something great. You've probably heard that already. But I trust you can do it because you build a great product, no matter what you focus on. You just gotta find that intersection of value and viability and GO.

i have so much faith in you guys. you can do it!

What an interesting video series! I'm subbed. You hooked me. 😉

I'm sure you'll survive. You have us, the community, for support

Been using your browser for a year and the best I way I can describe it is in the words of Jony Ive, It truly is an object that disappears into the experience. Wish you guys all the best.

if you add some sort of subscription then I'd more than gladly pay for it, the product is so totally worth it. Maybe a free version with telemetry on & no telemetry for the paid version?

My ipad is an extension of my mac…Arc for ipad is a game changer for me!

I have bragged about arc to all my close friends and family members. I cant stand that arc wont be able to make till next year. Arc has been my daily driver, up for as long as i use my computer... Really hope you guys find a way coz Life without arc is now unimaginable and already scary. 🥺💔

Arc is pretty great, but I wish you weren't getting rid of notes. I loved being able to have a note as a to do list right at the top of my school space. It was the simplest solution to the problem.

Id pay 10$/month to use arc I love it so much

really enjoy the use of the "IBM looking" font

I’ve been telling everyone about your business. Don’t give up! I’ll pay!

Your content in youtube is almost as high quality as your browser, so worst case scenario you can switch industries XD

Staggering to think this but honestly its almost a toss upp between LLMs at large and Arc as to what has improved my day more. Going back to a pre Arc Browser is unfreakinthinkable - but i'm grateful for your honesty about the odds. Between you and me, if it came down to it I wld pay a shit-ton of sub rather than go without this entirely suprerior browsing modality. And i am semi-retired, poor, in a country with a not great exchange rate. Please just stay the course One Way Or Another, for the sake of y'know… civilisation.

Rooting for you guys!!!

When will there be some kind of Business subscriptions? We wanna make Arc sustainable! Even tho I'm quite poor at the moment, I'd love to pay to use Arc. It cannot stay completely free forever. Don't be afraid to involve your users in the way you could make it sustainable.

I already 'dinner table/party' talk Arc!!!

Honestly, I'd pay for a subscription if you keep improving Arc. And I'm not talking about the next AI gimmick, there's a lot of room for standard improvements still. I'd rather pay than seeing this project trying to run in 80 different directions just to see what ends up making any money.

Things you should do: 1) improve the traffic control, because it is too basic, you need to be able to create rules, and inside the rules you add routes; 2) add the preview of all the tabs for a space, like Safari does for a group; 3) add the ability to use the TouchID on macOS, and the keychain, please; 4) do not add things there are not browser related, I don't want an email client like in Vivaldi, Arc is a browser, let 's keep it like that; 5) I love the AI integration, make it better, for example changing almost immediately the tab name of a website I just opened, and further improve the automatic categorisation, which is the feature I like the most.

We love Arc Search

Every big change has come from people like you, so don't you dare to stop right now!

I am loving this browser. Dont break . Live from india 🇮🇳 . I am using on both iphone and mac as default browser

Really looking forward to whats to come. Couldnt imagine going back to Chrome. However I have also thought about the future perspective. I am using a browser for free, not even by paying with my data. I would be perfectly fine by paying a small subscription fee for example

this is wild, i love it

Is the Developer Mode ever going to get fixed or is that also getting unshipped? For months now it's been missing the Site Control Center and extensions open on the wrong side.

I hear J-Dilla, I like.

Choice of song was great. Common is fantastic.

I don't mind paying a subscription for such wonderful solution just anythig but not break

Win lose or draw (is there a draw?) their product is interesting, and them making this a video series is, too. Thanks for making the internet more fun.

When do we see live folders? Wasn't that supposed to come out on February 15?

I think I've talked to all of my friends about how Arc's business model doesn't seem very sustainable, and the whole charge companies and teams to use Arc is a really optimistic look into the future and a gamble that Arc is good enough for that. I just hope that if the company goes under, Arc will be open source because I can't really go back to other browsers...

Me, already acting like I'm at the Thanksgiving table asking everyone if they've heard of ARC. I couldn't possibly imagine going back to other browsers. I was two days in and asked a few others, how did we function before ARC.

Dang I’m hoping the browser company pulls through cause I really enjoy arc it’s a great browser and I don’t want to see the company close and the browser dying

Wishing you all the best.. die hard fan

An alternative to a subscription service: Add an option for a tip jar. I'm sure plenty of users would be more than happy to offer support this way, as they're able.

Was terrified when I saw this. I cannot go back to a traditional browser. Please do not terrify the community like this lol! Seriously, I cannot go back to browsing in a traditional browser, and my entire company now uses Arc for work. One thing, we need a full fledged browser for iPad. Right now there is only the iphone version. Please support iPad os and VisionOS. Your browser has made all things better.. all! Thank you, we appreciate your effort here!

Would love to see Linux support. Cannot make Arc my main browser until you have it. It must be on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS just like you said in the video. If it isn't everywhere, it might as well be nowhere.

The browser itself has the feel somehow that it might not make it, to be honest. I like the emphasis you guys put on the UI but the AI I'm not so sure about. Its refreshing someone is taking the risk in trying to be different or revolutionary. However, certain elements need to really stand out and have a loud presence in order to feel revolutionary.