So basically Chrome is such a resource hog they had to build a supercomputer to run it for you https://t.co/8ahwjl5mrH

— Bryan Beal ? (@bryanrbeal) April 28, 2021

the web is now such a shit sandwich of javascript spaghetti and ad frameworks that "streaming your browser" somehow got past the brainstorming stage https://t.co/kYXKudHKOe

— Speed (@_genki_dama) April 28, 2021

Absolutely love this. Ultra thin clients running heavy duty applications natively in the browser. Only question is how this works under congested networks / lower bandwidth scenarios. this is some cool stuff @Suhail https://t.co/sdjpKuKpJ3

— Ram Parameswaran (@_ram_) April 28, 2021

eVeRyThInG sHoUlD bE a WeB aPp https://t.co/EhQpxlQk6F

— Matt Galligan (@mg) April 28, 2021

Excited for this. I recently bought an M1 chip MacBook Pro so that I can run Figma+Notion+Appsmith all together on Chrome. https://t.co/emMpfuyANK

— Abhishek Nayak (@arey_abhishek) April 27, 2021

This is essentially a bet that web frontends are going to get worse, despite computers getting faster. What does @Suhail know that I don't? https://t.co/TH6MPxym4d

— Rafael Spring (@Rafael_L_Spring) April 28, 2021

Enjoyed reading comments to that @paulg tweet.@MightyApp is a fascinating case study because they have a very clear bet with pretty clear risks. https://t.co/yN1P5TjCE8

— Yury Molodtsov ? (@y_molodtsov) April 28, 2021

KPI for 2022: Shrink the TAM of the Chrome hosting industry

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) April 28, 2021

take a look at @MightyApp - they’re building a super elegant tool in a very tough space (RBI), with a compelling story.

I disagree with their viewpoint on the future of computing. I think they’re dead wrong for many reasons. but I am rooting for them.https://t.co/XuX4P8nR7I

— Will Strafach (@chronic) April 28, 2021

Men will literally stream Chrome from the cloud via supercomputers instead of going to therapy etc etc

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) April 28, 2021

I would prefer a future where the computing is local, cheap and efficient with technologies like SIMD, GPU, JS, M1... This work is on a wrong direction in the {compute power, privacy} space ?. https://t.co/cwoSkwuwhC

— Yigit ⚡️ (@yigitdemirag) April 28, 2021

call me old fashioned, but I feel like the solution to "Gmail is slow on my computer" should be something simpler than "Pay $30 a month to rent a cloud supercomputer from which you stream a Gmail tab in Chrome" pic.twitter.com/OEnx0Law9x

— dan nguyen (@dancow) April 27, 2021

lots of unnecessarily emotional takes on this, of which i have none, but i am hoping their native mac app is one day compiled into WASM so that we can distribute it through a browser https://t.co/1FITVKdNeJ

— can (@can) April 28, 2021

I don’t need Mighty and M1 chips make Chrome fly, but I love Mighty’s bold master plan (via @mailbrew) https://t.co/6L8cknUww3 pic.twitter.com/DVDsGZDWs1

— Fabrizio Rinaldi (@linuz90) April 28, 2021

1/ Today we're unveiling Mighty: a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud.

Demo in the next tweet ?

New website: https://t.co/RTuSGLciUz

— Suhail (@Suhail) April 27, 2021

Excited for where this could go ?? Congrats on the unveiling of @MightyApp , @Suhail -- we need more people in the arena like this https://t.co/ytwE3A4sVu

— §AlexisOhanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) April 27, 2021

Heh... uhm... I think I will just use Firefox instead ;) https://t.co/yTf6xYp9mE

— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) April 28, 2021

stadia but for web pages lmao https://t.co/THZQK5MzGF

— Tyler Glaiel (@TylerGlaiel) April 28, 2021

No, I’m not making this up. This is an actual thing, apparently. This company’s idea is batshit. If you’re on macOS, just use Safari lmfaohttps://t.co/855X47Fu5k

— Rhys Morgan (@rhysmorgan) April 28, 2021

There are so many privacy concerns with an app like this. Every website you visit, every cookie, every keystroke(!) is sent to a third-party company, in this case a start-up. So they can see my passwords, credit card details, etc. Am I understanding this right? https://t.co/K7EculVIx5

— Jake Wright (@JakeWrightUK) April 28, 2021

This could be a great business but there is honestly something hilarious about people getting so fed up with Chrome they decided to stream it to their desktops from the cloud via supercomputers https://t.co/5sE6Hvv0w7

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) April 28, 2021

A solution looking for a problem ? https://t.co/MMPOwdr2Ez

— Gui Schmitt (@guischmitt) April 28, 2021

If I worked on the Chrome team and we had an annual meetup and someone said “OK, how are we doing on performance,” I would just begin by saying that a company now exists to stream our browser from the goddam cloud from supercomputers, that’s how we’re doing

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) April 28, 2021

Two trends:
- continuously cutting edge hardware with a subscription (just stream ui and events)
- shared burst computing. Needing intermittent bursts of massive parallelism (send a few thousand frames of video to render to each server and then combine when they all come back) https://t.co/rh1vgTdon3

— Adam Kirk (@atomkirk) April 28, 2021

Imagine spending $30 a month to give all your session data to a startup so you can get chrome to run slightly faster. https://t.co/2oE993Km9j

— asuka quantico soryu ?‍☠️ (@nyetalia) April 28, 2021

Netflix streaming applied to client/server offloaded web browsing. Awesome.https://t.co/RYtkwLlGjr

— Derek Collison (@derekcollison) April 28, 2021

How do you make Chrome faster?

One route is go through some obtuse, privacy nightmare solution of using an intermediary to stream your content.

Another - just DON’T send a crap ton of JS to the browser. Don’t use crap like Ember/React etc.

Use LiveView #elixirlang https://t.co/ytASySrWoI

— Santosh Kumar (@santosh79) April 28, 2021

Usually when people talk about grand things like changing "the future of computing," they're full of it. But not this time. Suhail has been working on this for 2 years. There's a good chance it's the new default infrastructure.https://t.co/yLFyk4a1gk

— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 27, 2021

“One day, using the web might be as fast as it was using NCSA Mosaic on a 486 with 16 megs” https://t.co/odK6G3WuWG

— Sarah Brown - I love Lusi ?? (@GoatSarah) April 28, 2021

I want to meet whoever is going to spend $30 a month to stream a Chromium browser from the cloud just to avoid RAM hungry Chrome https://t.co/4pl6jL2zUV

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) April 28, 2021

This could be a great business but there is honestly something hilarious about people getting so fed up with Chrome they decided to stream it to their desktops from the cloud via supercomputers https://t.co/5sE6Hvv0w7

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) April 28, 2021

3/ Here's my piece outlining Mighty's master plan to reignite the future of desktop computing: https://t.co/LrqJHSRTV5

It's time to build a new kind of computer.

— Suhail (@Suhail) April 27, 2021

I think it’s a commentary on the state of modern webapps that someone feels they need to stream the browser from a server. We need another thin client layer to proxy the old thin client because it got too fat, apparently ?? https://t.co/gY15WINMPK

— Steve Streeting (@stevestreeting) April 27, 2021

Mighty wants to 'make Chrome faster' by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS https://t.co/J4WXDbiLsP

— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) April 29, 2021

Soooo this Mighty thing. I have thoughts. https://t.co/sCz3bmWb6M

— Stephen Hall (@hallstephenj) April 28, 2021

I don't know why Mighty exists. Or why anyone would pay for it. https://t.co/tdawQgY5Jk

— Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) April 28, 2021

Read the actual source post: https://t.co/LrqJHSRTV5

It will make more sense why we're doing this and why this is a good starting point.

— Suhail (@Suhail) April 28, 2021