If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this:
But at least the smart part may be of merit. And we all know what HN thinks of electron, but at least bundling chrome with a browser seems reasonable. Not for a minimalistic browser though, I think hence the branding as "a smarter browser".
Oh boy, I actually set out to defend the project, but now I realize while there's clearly been some work put into it, some areas haven't been thought out too well...
At least it looks nice and clean, that's something.
edit: corrected my wording in the first sentence.