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Supper Club × Arc Browser with Hursh Agrawal

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Hursh Agrawal of The Browser Company about Scott’s favorite browser, Arc. How do you make a browser in 2022? Will there be a Windows version? And who is the target market for Arc?

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Show Notes

00:34 Welcome
HurshAgrawal.com
@Hursh
02:53 What is Arc and why create another browser?
Arc browser
The browser company
05:36 What is different about Arc?
08:20 Who is the target market for Arc?
09:30 Sponsor: Auth0
10:39 How do you make a browser?
13:38 Will there be a Windows version of Arc?
15:57 Where did the CMD-T functionality come from?
19:27 Sponsor: FireHydrant
20:39 How do you build on top of the Chrome engine?
24:17 How does The Browser Company make money?
27:26 Do you mess with the user agent?
29:05 Why do you require account set up to use Arc?
32:58 Sponsor: Gatsby
33:59 How did you come up with your theming engine?
36:15 Supper Club Questions
Warp
Hacker News
Changelog
Every
Ben Thompson Bundling and Unbundling
42:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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