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This week we are covering an interesting micro-trend Productivity Browsers 💻.

⭐️ Intro

Here's what we'll discuss today.

👉 7 predictions about Productivity Browsers👉 13 products in this category👉 The most popular browsers👉 1 expert to follow👉 1 Twitter thread

🤔 Predictions

1. Productivity Browsers will gently replace Chrome and Safari in some niches and verticals. E.g.

   1. 100K+ users already use Workona on top of their Chrome

   2. 70K+ users use Sidekick

2. The most common use cases are sales, customer success, product management, marketing, founders, and design.

3. Productivity Browsers will focus on knowledge and tech workers. It is their core audience so far.

4. Productivity Browsers will have key advantages over traditional browsers for knowledge workers:

   1. Workona > Organize your tabs, docs, & links into a dedicated space for each project

   2. Stack > Separate work from home and focus on one thing at a time

5. Productivity Browsers will position themselves based on:

   1. Integrations with SaaS products

   2. Speed

   3. Privacy

   4. Built-in Adblocker

   5. Memory Consumption

   6. Cloud Computing (Mighty streams your browser from a powerful computer in the cloud)

6. Productivity Browsers will integrate with the most popular SaaS products, so they can search for information and manage all their tasks in one place. E.g. Sidekick brings together Salesforce, Notion, Miro, Trello, Figma, ClickUp, Asana, Slack, Airtable etc.

7. We will see more niche browsers in the future:

   1. Opera GX > browser for gamers

   2. Brave > privacy-focused browser

   3. Puma > browser for web 3

   4. Vivaldi > performance-focused browser 

🏢 Products

💻 Productivity Browsers

1. Stack > Spatial browser for mindful online living

2. Mighty > A new browser to work faster

3. Sidekick > A productivity browser for becoming focused and unstoppable

4. Workona > The essential work organizer for the browser

5. SigmaOS > Meet the first browser that organizes your work

6. Arc > Arc is your space to breathe on the internet

7. Station > One app to rule them all

8. Basaas > Connect all your apps with Microsoft 365 and optimize your daily workflow

9. Wavebox > Browser for Work

10. eesel > The new tab for work

11. comake > A second brain,in your browser

12. Switch > Your browser, but more productive

13. Vivaldi > Get unrivaled customization options and built-in features for better performance, productivity, and privacy

📈 Trend Chart

The most popular browsers in 2022 by Statcounter.

As of August 2022, Google’s Chrome is the leading internet browser in the world with a global market share of 66%. In other words, more than six in ten people use Chrome to browse the internet.

📖 Experts to Follow

1. Josh Miller > CEO at The Browser Company (Arc Browser)

🔗 Useful Links

1. The Browser Company’s CEO on going up against Alphabet, Apple, and Microsoft

2. How Arc Plans to Become the Meta-OS Layer

🐦 Twitter Thread

Josh Miller's The Browser Company is onboarding users faster than expected

📰 Recent News

1. Stack raised $850K in Seed Round to build the first tab-less browser

🤝 Related SaaS Trends

1. Command Bars and Unified Search Interfaces > how to find any information blazingly fast

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