What Happened to Mighty App?

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We were promised this[0] about a year ago but it still hasn&rsquo;t been released. It&rsquo;s a cloud browser that does all the heavy lifting remotely so we don&rsquo;t have to have resource hogging apps installed on our on-prem devices. What happened to it?[0] https://www.mightyapp.com/

suhail · Accepted Answer

Big announcements soon.We're delayed by the chip shortage and are expecting 34 huge servers to land around ~mid-July but they've been delayed since April. Right now we've only got 1/3 of our capacity available which isn't a whole lot.

vrtcn · Answer

IMO, this is a product for five years ago, when sites like figma were beyond the capabilities of most machines. Looking five years ahead, most of their potential users (higher income or working at companies able to afford the subscription fee) will have moved on to M-series machines from Apple. Intel and AMD will probably also have catched up far enough to be able to efficiently handle most use cases, for companies that cant or dont want to switch to macOS.Honestly, as much as I admire the energy of their founder, I think this product should have never gone far past the idea phase with Apple experts like Rene Ritchie having predicted the integration and performance benefits of Apple Silicon since the first rumors came up many years ago.

cabirum · Answer

It's insane to even consider using a browser running on somebody else's server. Would you trust them passwords and credit card details? How inefficient is running multiple browsers in one point of failure and streaming a video(?) of it over the net.

maxique · Answer

Interesting security page (https://www.mightyapp.com/security) that promises everything whilst proving nothing... you'd have thought they could've at least had a pentest by now?
> How do I have guarantees that Mighty isn’t going to do anything it shouldn’t?
> We believe that the people who use our service expect us to protect their information and their right to privacy as our top priority. We commit to keeping your browser history private, your logged in identity secure, and your information under your control. Let us be clear: your data will never be sold. We recognize that we earn our trust with you every day and that won’t be easy.

darrelld · Answer

I don't get the use case for this. Are browsers really that slow?
I have an old 2013 macbook air with 16GB ram and it still surfs the net silky smooth.
I have a desktop I built back in 2015 with an i7 and 32 GB ram that I'm using right now and it's been fine for everything including Adobe products, and especially for browsing the web.
More than anything loading ads slow down my browsing experience, not the machine itself.

vimy · Answer

I think the current product is too niche but the tech is nice so I expect some kind of pivot in the future.

solumos · Answer

I was an early user for about 6 months before the M1 was launched. Pretty great product IF you don't want to buy the latest Apple hardware and you work in the browser a lot.They're still working on it, and growing the user base.

muttantt · Answer

https://twitter.com/Suhail still working on it

DantesKite · Answer

I imagine all the semi-conductor chip shortages likely played an integral role in the delay. It's been an odd year.

What Happened to Mighty App?

We were promised this[0] about a year ago but it still hasn’t been released. It’s a cloud browser that does all the heavy lifting remotely so we don’t have to have resource hogging apps installed on our on-prem devices. What happened to it?
[0] https://www.mightyapp.com/

Big announcements soon.
We're delayed by the chip shortage and are expecting 34 huge servers to land around ~mid-July but they've been delayed since April. Right now we've only got 1/3 of our capacity available which isn't a whole lot.

It's insane to even consider using a browser running on somebody else's server. Would you trust them passwords and credit card details? How inefficient is running multiple browsers in one point of failure and streaming a video(?) of it over the net.

I think the current product is too niche but the tech is nice so I expect some kind of pivot in the future.

I was an early user for about 6 months before the M1 was launched. Pretty great product IF you don't want to buy the latest Apple hardware and you work in the browser a lot.
They're still working on it, and growing the user base.

https://twitter.com/Suhail still working on it

I imagine all the semi-conductor chip shortages likely played an integral role in the delay. It's been an odd year.