I pay >$30/mo for streaming services, and I arguably use my browser for an order of magnitude more time per day than I do for Netflix/Amazon Prime/Disney+/etc. Folks pay much more for Adobe products, which arguably are mostly desktop-only apps. If you're offloading the work of your browser to a VM/VMs in the cloud, and you derive meaningful benefit from it, I don't think the cost here is absurd.

If you're comparing the cost of the browser today ($0) to the cost of this service, yes, it's steep. But if you consider the benefit you draw (lower memory use, avoid load times for pages "waking up", etc.) you're probably saving a lot of time and hassle.

I'm sure the cost is worth it to a specific segment of power users of, say, Figma. And maybe cloud gaming? But I'm curious if there's really a larger market for this.

I have to imagine they'll eventually have to subsidize a free version by creating a really souped-up premium version that has killer features.

Or they become an acq target by Google or something, and then things could get interesting!

The whole idea is that your browser is increasingly shifting towards becoming your operating system. Think about it, people spend the majority of their time on Chrome or Desktop apps wrapped in Chromium (Electron). If you consider Mighty to be a cheap supercomputer, not an expensive browser, it makes sense to pay $30/month for that. People pay SuperHuman $30/month for better email when they can use Gmail for free, but the truth is that SuperHuman gives you much more than an interface. Even better, Mighty isn't limited to power-users. Eventually your physical computer will merely serve as an interface to your real computer in the cloud.

> If you consider Mighty to be a cheap supercomputer, not an expensive browser, it makes sense to pay $30/month for that

For sure, but at the moment it definitely is not that, and it's going to take a long long time before we get there. People have wanted thin clients for decades!

If I wanted to burn a hole in my wallet, I'd pay for Mighty, sure. The average user won't see a big benefit to this for a long time though.

The price point is too high for cheap users and the feature set is too small for power users, IMO.

Working on multiple Figma instances while having things like Notion and Slack in the background is a real-life situation for a lot of people nowadays. Even a $3000 MacBook Pro suffers to handle it, but you could easily do it with a 2013 Macbook Air via Mighty. Think of it as renting a new computer. Also most entry-level users have to run these for work/school but can't on cheap hardware.

Yeah, what you're describing sounds like a work station. Maybe Mighty will allow companies to buy super cheap laptops + Mighty for their non-tech folks to get up & running fast?