@oncejean Hey Jean, yeah, I can see how that's frustrating. We contemplated what a launch might mean in our case. We're kind of this hybrid software and hardware company. We must buy and capacity plan building lots of custom servers (unlike pure software) and must do so across the world to achieve low latency. That means it's tough to scale instantly world-wide without Google-level resources. We could've done a pre-order like a hardware company might but I felt that was unnecessary. When the software is available, you can buy it then vs risking an unfulfilled promise. We're live in California/NYC and onboarding users as fast as we scale to the capacity. We'd prefer not to burn out like most hardware companies by over purchasing hardware. All this together is exacerbated by the chip shortage where lead times on servers are now 10+ weeks out.

@suhail I appreciate the elaborate answer. Maybe a quick heads up that you're only live for now in NY and CA ;) I like the idea but would love to see more than a landing page, that's all. I guess I'll have to be a bit more patient ;)

@oncejean I am pretty committed to going live and self-serve by early next year fwiw opening up region by region. Let me know where you're roughly located and I'll make myself a reminder.

@suhail I'm usually in NYC but currently in London. So I guess I'll be able to test it once I'm back. Thx :)

@oncejean @suhail I don't understand why do you need to buy hardware? why don't you just rent servers? Is it to save resources on the long term? but that would also cost you much more initially and would require more maintenance efforts!

@suhail Excited to finally see Mighty hit Product Hunt! I've been following the Mighty hype on Twitter and, it was about time!

@suhail congrats on the launch. How much does Mighty rely on perfect internet connection?

@soorajchandran_ Chrome is notorious for high ram usage, not cpu usage. Some M1 devices have 8 GB RAM, just saying

@soorajchandran_ @etherealarts as an M1 user with super-fast machine...chrome still crawls because of ram...it is still a problem

@etherealarts Got it! Thanks. But how would it affect the end user experience? As long as Chrome runs fast should I care about the ram usage?

@etherealarts @soorajchandran_ Well, considering I have just recently upgraded from 64 GB of RAM (4x16 GB sticks) to a whopping 128 GB (4x32 GB sticks, which was super expensive and hard to find) - because I kept using up the majority of my RAM in multiple instances of chrome (as well as brave, firefox developer edition, opera GX), you'd be surprised at how quickly it adds up. i love having a ton of tabs open and it's an addiction of sorts, for me. but if you are interested in cutting down this RAM issue I would suggest switching from chrome itself to brave. you can use all of the same exact extensions as brave is also built on chromium, which is the base for chrome, plus, it's more secure and has built-in features that chrome does not have (like a built in web3/ethereum/erc20 crypto wallet, no spyware stuff, etc.) it does make a huge difference. barring that, try and use an extension like 'the great suspender' which will help you keep the RAM use under control.

@thomas_sanlis1 What if folks could eke another year or two out of their computers before having to upgrade? This is not a hypothetical; I'm still running a 2014 MBP I would have replaced last year were it not for Mighty. [disclosure: I work at Mighty, and think about the ecological tradeoffs often]

@thomas_sanlis1 @anulman running a massive dual xenon server *in addition* to your laptop is not better than buying a new macbook

@anulman That's actually a very good point! I'm still sceptical about the total resources usage, but you're right about this. I'll be curious to see some numbers and statistics about your ecological impact.

@thomas_sanlis1 @agentdrtran The environmental impact of creating a new computer far exceeds dozens of running computers. I'm not sure this is a great product, but it is at least beneficial to the environment in that respect.

@agentdrtran @nilamo Sure. But I'm sure every user of Mighty will not keep their computer longer because of it. But again, the only way to be sure of the environmental impact is transparency, number, and a study. And I think that if Mighty doesn't mention it at all, it's because it doesn't benefit them.

@rrhoover Since our browser runs on servers in the cloud, we can virtually change every layer it relies upon: everything from machine code caches of JavaScript to making Chrome handle CPU parallelism better for a single tab. We hope to make web apps feel as fast as native apps.

@rrhoover @suhail so here we are again in the era of thin clients 😂 How you are managing latency? Like what is median visible latency between keystroke and symbol appearing on screen?

@addisonjames yup! don't worry though, they pinky-promise to keep it safe

@addisonjames we answered the most common questions here: https://www.mightyapp.com/security

@aaronoleary No. Since the browser isn’t running on your computer, those tabs aren’t taking any resources on your computer.