T-5: “Action in The Rainbow Room”: Spotify’s early team working in an apartment on Riddargatan in Stockholm. Making music accessible to anyone with a phone made us all more human.

T-3: Saturday Night Live team sitting together for a read-through. Wednesdays are for read-throughs and rehearsals start on Thursday. Next year they’ll be enjoying their 50th season

T-2: On set during the development of Toy Story. The dream of “The Movie” was 20 years in the making. The failed computer company that's inspired a generation of values. It's not who you are, but what you do.

T-1: Amidst ongoing battle with Microsoft, Netscape releases Navigator 3.0, which gained over 90% marketshare. Netscape rewired our expectations for what software could be. We think Muddy could do the same

Now this feels exciting! Progress in productivity tools in the past ~3 years have felt rather stagnant Incumbents no longer ship zero to one stuff Newcomer “tools for thought” largely focused on solo/personal users New “AI tools” aren’t grounded enough, and also largely solo.

Muddy has identified a problem so core to the digital experience that IMO they will inevitably change the world - either through their own software or thru their tech inspiring others. Let's call it the Rule of Ambient Friction — For every social interaction online there is an

this is amazing🔥 petition to redirect 50% of the engagement from the Humane discourse to this. really great take on a work browser and search.

Don’t sabotage yourself

This was Twitter, iMessage, Slack, and Telegram all-in-one.

Muddy is free to download for the next 48h

-4o reduced our costs by so much that we were able to make all of Muddy's AI features free and generally available today. You can check us out on Product Hunt. As always, any support is always appreciated. Link below.

Sad news, Sail, the parent company for Muddy and Nototo is shutting down. Grateful for the thousands of you who have used our products. Muddy and Nototo will remain up. No new features or major maintenance (large bugs, chromium updates) after August 31st.

As August closes, we're no longer actively working on Muddy. Building multiplayer browsers for four years has been a ride. Some notes below: