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Comment by ethanyu94 | Hacker News Reader

I personally don't have 200+ tabs, so I can't speak to this problem, but I don't think you are going to make much inroads telling people to change how they work. So rather focusing on hypotheticals, I'm glad that Mighty provides a solution that doesn't require much friction or behavior change.

Why is $5 an acceptable price? Why not $10, $50, $500?

Edit: You agree that having 200+ tabs is a problem right? Why haven't the people with 200+ tabs adopted the solutions you speak of? Perhaps those solutions aren't good enough, or perhaps they don't want to change the way they work. Either way, if those solutions really "solved" the problem, we wouldn't be observing people with 200+ tabs in the world.

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Because spending $500 dollars a month versus having the control to close a tab you don't really need to track is inane. Would you pay that recurring fee out of your own pocket to improve your own productivity? That doesn't seem like a reasonable proposition to me.

For at least a decade of my life, I was a 200+ tab person. Paying any amount of money to make my computer slightly more responsive versus the time I lost just clicking through (literally) hundreds of tabs to find something versus logging it--let alone simply searching for the same thing again and hitting the links that float to the top because I've visited them--doesn't make any sense to me.

As I see it, the "problem" here is not that you need to have 200+ tabs open at any given time. The problem is precisely that you have 200+ tabs open at any given time.

If you have the ability to keep track of 200+ tabs, exactly where they're located on your screen, and can switch back and forth between those and your actual work within a matter of seconds then kudos to you. You're actually a genius, and your employer should definitely consider purchasing this ongoing subscription for you.

[edit]: Just looked at your history and realized I'm probably replying to an astroturf account, so joke's on me, I guess.

Nah, not an astroturf account. Just a YC founder who thinks this HN response is crazy.

I'm not 100% against this being an astroturf campaign, but there's literally never been a single idea the past 6-7 years you've felt this strongly to post about, ad nauseam, until this exact thing?

200+ tabs open for $30+ a month per employee is the hill you decided to take a stand on?

We could also continue to talk about the points we both raised earlier, or that could all get lost in the weeds :)

Everyone has to start somewhere :)

This made me laugh, thanks. Take care :)

You must be working with idiots, because my coworkers can follow even more complicated orders than "close your unneeded tabs or your computer will be slow."

Sure, you can choose to insult them. Meanwhile Mighty is building a solution for them.

I dont think they are real. Btw. I have 170 tabs open right now and I really need like 5 of them, but firefox uses 2 gigs of ram so it doesnt matter.

There's the issue precisely. Thanks.

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