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Mighty — Make Chrome faster and use 10x less memory
Mighty is a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud. You can have 50+ tabs without your computer coming to a crawl, work without fan noise, Figma is 2x faster, and get more battery life.
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Can't wait to try it!
(p.s. it is bothering me a bit that some h2s on the landing page end in a period and some don't)
Hey everyone, thanks for checking out Mighty. If you have any questions, please comment below.
After 2 years of hard work, we've created something that's indistinguishable from a Google Chrome that runs at 4K, 60 frames a second, takes no more than 500 MB of RAM, and often less than 30% CPU even with 50+ tabs open. This is the first step in making a new kind of computer.
While there is a waitlist, we are onboarding new users every single week as we ramp up server capacity across west and east coast of the United States. We do not plan to have a permanent waitlist forever.
In the meantime, feel free to read my piece on our master plan to reignite the future of desktop computing: https://blog.mightyapp.com/might...
Excuse me sir, did you just say 50+ Tabs without slowing down my computer? I'd like to switch now plz.
Congrats on the launch @suhail! Excited to try Mighty out and not hear my fans for once.
Congrats @suhail Been following your progress on Twitter and Shipping Fridays. Happy to see this launch announcement.
Very interesting product. My first concern was privacy which isn’t addressed on this PH page. Found it at the very bottom of your website- you may want to reprioritize the order so it’s higher. I assume all my traffic and keystrokes are collected and send to the server/VM?
@addisonjames we answered the most common questions here: https://www.mightyapp.com/security
@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.
This looks very intriguing. But despite being on the wait list for a long time, I can't even try it out :/
@suhail Any plans on opening this for India?
Congrats on the launch @suhail - had been following your posts on Twitter. Couldn't help but notice the Mighty website shares the color palette with Mixpanel somewhat.
Suhail & Team:
Wonderful work on getting the product finished and introduced into the world. I am definitely a big believer in apps that can be streamed into a browser/browser-like interface. Streaming apps to thin clients was possible within the LANs, but there were so many issues. So, I am super excited that you have made it happen.
I am looking forward to trying this out shortly but have a few questions: mostly about data retention, mostly because browser and browser history is personal.
What is your thinking around browser history in Mighty? How long are you going to retain it, and what is the ultimate intent. Of all the apps on our computers, the browsers tend to be the ones that show and reveal our intentions and desires.
All that said, I am excited to give Mighty a try.
PS: I did read your privacy FAQ.
This is really great! How do you see this evolving with faster Macbooks coming out? For example, the M1 solves a lot of the speed problem.
@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.
I've been using Mighty for about a month and it really is incredible and, at the same time, kicking myself for not following through with a similar idea I had years ago! It was an effortless switch from Chrome/Brave/Chromium into Mighty.
Leveraging Google Workspace, Zendesk, Miro, Trello, etc. within my organization, my mid-tier 2020 (Intel) MBP was struggling and was nothing but a jet engine for 8 hours a day. Now? Silence for ~6-8 hours depending on local workflows like Adobe, CAD, and others.
The computer was brand new and already felt sluggish from all the browser weight. Mighty has given me the power that was paid for back into my workflows keeping the bevy of resource-heavy SaaS platforms isolated and offloaded so I can seamlessly jump from task to task without waiting for something to 'just work'/load!
I remember hearing about @suhail's new startup ~year ago. Bold, technical challenge.
I'm curious, what's the craziest thing Mighty will support in a few years, Suhail?
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