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> make a kick-ass browser that people love, strive for even 0.5-1% of browser market share, and then sell your default search preference. Well this seems like
by pfannkuchen 3y ago
> make a kick-ass browser that people love, strive for even 0.5-1% of browser market share, and then sell your default search preference.
Well this seems like the hard part. I think it is actually not easy to get 1% market share, because if you are good enough to hit 1% you are likely to overshoot 1% by a lot, and if you aren’t good enough to make it past 1% you probably won’t make it to 1%. And obviously creating a browser that is good enough to overshoot 1% by a lot is very difficult.
The companies who actually have 1% of a market (for a sustained period of time) are like really weird edge cases.
- woleium 3y agoyes, very hard, especially now with search loosing market share to genai
- hinkley 3y agoOpera has been floating around 2.5% for a long time, but to be fair that is not so much 2.5% across the board as a higher percent in a specific demographic.
- nine_k 3y agoIt's only 1% on average. Instead you name a product that has 50%-90% market share among certain demographics, a narrow sliver of the general audience. You solve their particular problem well enough. It's just not everyone's problem. For selling the search preference it works even better because it instantly adds a bit of targeting information.