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sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Damn, that's a great breakdown, and discusses a lot of the things we've been thinking about and what led us towards building SigmaOS the way we are.

I'm actually implementing the Chrome extensions API, so SigmaOS will have the same extensions available as Chrome :D

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks, fixing it now!
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Getting used to the new keyboard shortcuts (you can choose the old Spectacle shortcuts as well) took a few days but had less conflicts and I prefer it now :)
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
We have been getting slightly more constructive comments since changing the title, so thanks :D
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Hmm, I'm not sure how we'd go about allowing that at the moment without having to integrate each solution ourselves.

How about the sync generating a file where you want it to, and you can sync that file using your current cloud storage solution? Would that work for you?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Hmm, to be honest, I'm not sure, but I think it's just the inspector and the tools you can access from there.
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Ah, what a shame. Hopefully I figure out a workaround to support Mojave :D
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Heya, really appreciate the product feedback!

For bugs, you can report them using the question mark at the bottom left of the app. Or join our Slack community :D

Super weird that the Find is freezing. If it was working, it would show how many matches it found when you press enter. That sounds like an urgent fix.

Great point regarding import! Will make sure the workspaces you import get added after the tutorial.

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks a lot! Hopefully it works out :D

Let us know what you think :)

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
We're still workshopping pricing models. We have a 14-day free trial, so please give it a go and tell us what you think!
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks for the extensive feedback! Really appreciate it.

We'll have to check out how we're marketing it. It's interesting. I'm a developer who'd call himself a power-user (my .vimrc is fly as fuck), but I'd much rather a product that streamlines the experience as long as it does it well. Which is what we want users to give us feedback on :D

Yes, you can actually have todos for arbitrary text content and you can add your current page to the context of the todo. That way, you know where you were when you created the todo in the first place, which can be quite useful.

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
We're using SwiftUI and WebKit features that were added quite recently (MacOS doesn't get nearly as much love from Apple as iOS). This keeps our product iteration cycle quite high, and the worry is having to implement cumbersome solutions if supporting previous OSs.

I'll have to look into it again to see if I can go back just a bit maybe and assess how much time it would take to support those versions.

We're a pretty small team :)

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Ah, shame! Hope you update soon :)

It's standard Safari dev as SigmaOS is based on WebKit.

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks!

We're still workshopping the pricing model, but do give the free trial a go and let us know what you think!

There's the standard web inspector at the moment. What would you like to see for dev tools?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Haha, no intention to build a social network here. Just a way to send pages to people, targeted for work.

And to be frank, SigmaOS does not and will never allow advertising to our users through the app.

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks!
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Hey, that shouldn't be happening :(

Have you signed up? If you have and it's still not working, email me at saurav@sigmaos.com with the email address you used, and I can look into it.

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks, appreciate it!

We do have a 14-day free trial, and you don't have to put your card details when you sign up.

Yeah, as Mahyad has mentioned, we're still workshopping price and pricing models.

Let us know what you think!

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Hmm, interesting point.

I presume specific user testimonials might help? What were you thinking?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
We definitely don't want to punish our users or make the app feel worse.

We're testing out a classic mode at the moment that allows your current shortcuts to work as well :)

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks!

So we launched into private beta in May, and have been iterating every week ever since. We have a Slack community you can join to talk to our current users as well :)

Can I ask where you'd want to see user reviews?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Sorry, I didn't quite get the question.

Are you referring to another company copying our features?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks!

I do appreciate the skepticism. Most of it seems healthy.

If anyone is skeptical, try it out and let us know if the experience sucked (though we don't think it will), and we'll improve it from your feedback :D

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
if they believe us, indeed :p

Hey, if we figure out how to do that, I'll make a post outlining how to do it for others as well :)

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks!

Performance: We use WebKit for the actual pages, so similar to Safari in speed and memory usage (much better than Chrome), and our UX should be pretty fast (we did a performance update right before this launch!)

Privacy: The app obviously knows what pages are on it since it's loading them. Our server doesn't have any of that data unless you choose to upload it for cloud syncing. That data is encrypted so shouldn't be trivial to access (though we want to move over to iCloud to avoid this problem). What do you think?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Changed the title!
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Whoops, I might have not explained myself properly. I'm implementing the Chrome extensions API from scratch. When I'm done, you'll have access to all of your Chrome extensions!
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thank you :)
sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Thanks for the feedback! Will make the change to the form so it covers your case.

Regarding the login flow, would you use Google Sign-In if we had it?

sauravmitra··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Haha, not how I meant to phrase it at least. I was merely pointing out that I can't convince you when I say that "we handle your data safely", so was proposing another reasoning for why we have to make sure any and all data is handled properly.
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