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Josh Miller

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And other times, we'll take an idea and abstract it to something that can work everywhere. So we heard the story from a teacher last week, actually, where she said she spends an hour every week taking attendance logs from a Google Sheet that she has and copy and pasting them into a school district-wide CMS of some sort for attendance records. And it takes her an hour. That makes me so mad.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We can send reusable rockets to space, apparently, but we have teachers spending an hour doing copy paste, copy paste, tab switching. So Nate on our team last week prototyped this mass paste idea, where in one fell swoop, you can take a bunch of data from one tab and paste it in a very formatted, structured way into another tab.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We can send reusable rockets to space, apparently, but we have teachers spending an hour doing copy paste, copy paste, tab switching. So Nate on our team last week prototyped this mass paste idea, where in one fell swoop, you can take a bunch of data from one tab and paste it in a very formatted, structured way into another tab.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We can send reusable rockets to space, apparently, but we have teachers spending an hour doing copy paste, copy paste, tab switching. So Nate on our team last week prototyped this mass paste idea, where in one fell swoop, you can take a bunch of data from one tab and paste it in a very formatted, structured way into another tab.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

So there's an example relative to GitHub where the seed of the idea was this teacher with this very specific piece of software she has to use for her very specific job. But in it is this much larger, relatable idea of we can all relate to copy and pasting back and forth between tabs incessantly. So it's a little bit of both, but it always starts with a person.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

So there's an example relative to GitHub where the seed of the idea was this teacher with this very specific piece of software she has to use for her very specific job. But in it is this much larger, relatable idea of we can all relate to copy and pasting back and forth between tabs incessantly. So it's a little bit of both, but it always starts with a person.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

So there's an example relative to GitHub where the seed of the idea was this teacher with this very specific piece of software she has to use for her very specific job. But in it is this much larger, relatable idea of we can all relate to copy and pasting back and forth between tabs incessantly. So it's a little bit of both, but it always starts with a person.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

It always starts with people, and it always starts with going out into the world and trying to understand. Sometimes it's a family member. Sometimes it's a cousin. Sometimes it's a stranger. Like, what are they experiencing on the web every day?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

It always starts with people, and it always starts with going out into the world and trying to understand. Sometimes it's a family member. Sometimes it's a cousin. Sometimes it's a stranger. Like, what are they experiencing on the web every day?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

It always starts with people, and it always starts with going out into the world and trying to understand. Sometimes it's a family member. Sometimes it's a cousin. Sometimes it's a stranger. Like, what are they experiencing on the web every day?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

If you talk to these application developers, one of their complaints is actually browser vendors are pretty restrictive about what they can do in the browser. So one of our popular features is in our Command-T text box, you can type new Notion document. And you can hit Enter, and it'll create a new Notion document. Notion loves that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

If you talk to these application developers, one of their complaints is actually browser vendors are pretty restrictive about what they can do in the browser. So one of our popular features is in our Command-T text box, you can type new Notion document. And you can hit Enter, and it'll create a new Notion document. Notion loves that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

If you talk to these application developers, one of their complaints is actually browser vendors are pretty restrictive about what they can do in the browser. So one of our popular features is in our Command-T text box, you can type new Notion document. And you can hit Enter, and it'll create a new Notion document. Notion loves that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Notion can't do that in Chrome or Safari because Google's trying to protect its search ad revenue. So there are examples of places where we're actually giving developers more access than they would in other browsers because we're not optimizing for search ads.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Notion can't do that in Chrome or Safari because Google's trying to protect its search ad revenue. So there are examples of places where we're actually giving developers more access than they would in other browsers because we're not optimizing for search ads.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Notion can't do that in Chrome or Safari because Google's trying to protect its search ad revenue. So there are examples of places where we're actually giving developers more access than they would in other browsers because we're not optimizing for search ads.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And then there are other examples where there are actually things that you can only do at the browser layer that exist across multiple tabs. So if you think about the teacher example, the things that the developer of Google Sheets and the obscure public school district CMS application would need to do to have an integration, that's never going to happen.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And then there are other examples where there are actually things that you can only do at the browser layer that exist across multiple tabs. So if you think about the teacher example, the things that the developer of Google Sheets and the obscure public school district CMS application would need to do to have an integration, that's never going to happen.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And then there are other examples where there are actually things that you can only do at the browser layer that exist across multiple tabs. So if you think about the teacher example, the things that the developer of Google Sheets and the obscure public school district CMS application would need to do to have an integration, that's never going to happen.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But at the browser layer, because we sit underneath all of it, we can actually do those things very easily. So it obviously depends on the feature.