545: Arc Browser with Nate Parrott
Nate Parrott from The Browser Company of New York stops by to talk about Arc - including the history of Arc, how boosts work, building out dev features, how they deciding on what features to build, and feedback from Dave and Chris on Arc.
Guests
Time Jump Links
- 00:49 Guest introduction
- 02:28 Getting Arc invites
- 05:06 Arc is built on Chromium
- 08:19 What you see when you open Arc
- 13:48 Opinionated software choices
- 16:39 Arc's Boosts
- 24:59 Who is the audience for Arc browser?
- 27:22 Syncing on Arc
- 29:41 Arc's release notes
- 30:13 Sponsor: Sanity
- 31:58 Does Arc funnel down to one window?
- 42:49 Developer mode
- 48:09 What is Arc written in?
- 53:39 What's the business plan for Arc?
- 55:09 Muscle memory from other browsers
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