Sidekick Browser - The fastest browser built for work.

Hi Hunters, I’m Dmitry, founder and CEO of Sidekick. And I’m so excited to share with you the browser for work we’ve been building for the past year and a half.🙏 Just like most of you, I work in a browser all the time. So when I was doing an EIR at Kleiner Perkins, we thought a lot about the future of online work, and one thing always seemed strange to me - why are we working in a tool designed for browsing? And why aren’t companies who make browsers fix obvious problems that prevent us from being more productive and enjoying our work more? The answer is surprisingly simple - knowledge workers make up just 1-2% of their user base, and developing features for us is not economical and will complicate UX for the rest 99% of users. But what about the hundreds of millions of people who work online and struggle because of it 🤷‍♀️? Shouldn’t there be a better way? We decided that there should be, and started building Sidekick. There a quite a few improvements that we've made on top of Chromium, but here are some of the highlights: 📱UX built around working with applications - where we spend most of our time. With badges, in-app search, and shortcuts. As a long time user of Franz, I love having all messengers and work-related tools in one place. 🚄 A browser optimized for speed. The average Chrome user has 6 tabs open all the time. I bet that you have more. We built an AI-based tab suspender so that Sidekick uses the same amount of memory whether you have 10 tabs open or 100. As one of our early users said "My old MacBook Air now feels like a $4k machine." 🔎A built-in powerful search. Collecting all of your web apps in one place enables something really important: being able to instantly find any documents, apps or contacts, no matter if they’re in Notion, your email, Slack, or anywhere else. All with a single shortcut. 🦁Built-in support for multiple accounts simultaneously for any app, whether they support it or not. 🕵️ browser that actively fights for your privacy and online anonymity with a built-in ad-blocker, and fingerprinting protection to confuse ad networks and trackers, which further improves page loading time. And there's more to come. 📊Tools to organize your work into labeled sessions and stop tab clutter once and for all. And all of this while being compatible with most Chrome features and extensions. Building Sidekick has been a fun challenge, and I want to thank the thousands of early adopters who helped us in our early days and patiently reported bugs and suggested features. And we're very excited to finally share it with the broader community. Join us, share your ideas for improvement and let's build a better work environment together 🙏, it truly is day 1 for all of us! And if you're maker, designer, engineer, product visionary or are just curious about working with us - send me a note. There's so much to be built here. And thanks for hunting @chrismessina !

Sounds cool! Do chrome extensions work? I don't want to leave them behind

Downloaded it and am lovin' it, however I was wondering, is there ever going to be a shortcut to open/close the sidebar? I know you can toggle it off, but having a shortcut to open/close it would make me much more productive! Anyways, AWESOME BROWSER! :)

Great job @dmitry_pushkarev ! I've been using Sidekick for about a year and it helped me to get rid of the tab clutter - this is a BIG one as I used to have 100-200 tabs open at the same time. Also I LOVE the global search feature - really makes all your docs and tabs easy accessible and saves a lot of time while working online!

The left bar caught my attention.

awesome! the only drawback - 1password extension (regular version) - wont work

Kaspersky fires a warning on your .exe for Windows. (Trojan-PSW.Win64.Agent.hj). You can check it there: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/u.... Do you know why?

?makers thanks for the product, it looks very interesting. Have a question, though, is there a cloud synchronization of browsing history and bookmarks?

Really enjoying it so far, but why can't I use a New Tab override extension? :(

Looks like a Station and Chrome crossover. I have used Station for the past year and a half until they decided to pivot. Will probably give Stidekick a shot :)

To me, as an ex-Googler, the most intriguing feature is, of course, built-in search: instantly find any documents, apps or contacts, no matter if they’re in Notion, your email, Slack, or anywhere else. BTW, is it federated search? or do you index all those apps yourselves? do you keep the index only, or copies of all docs? what is the search engine? Elastic? ranking? tf-idf? :-)

Brillant! Sounds a bit like if Shift and eesel had a baby... Will give a try.

Interesting. Can you talk more about the AI algorithm that suspends the unused tabs memory? Have you measured some average browser used memory allocation improvement? Thanks!

Sounds really interesting! A few questions: 1) Will it keep updated with the latest Chrome version? 2) Are you planning to have mobile versions so I could sync data between them? Or does it sync to Google just like regular Chrome?

Nice idea. Great design.

This is a really cool browser I think you should be able to change the default star page Background.

This is super useful ever for people how do not work you can keep all your social media on the sidebar.

I've been using the Beta version of Sidekick for the past 6 months and I'll never go back to Chrome. Of course, the crown jewel here is the app Sidebar - being able to switch between multiple accounts with a click, search an app, or get notifications is a GAME CHANGER for anyone who works online. But the features just keep going - a built-in adblocker (and tracker), an across-browser search, tab sessions, etc... This is what working online was meant to be like.

Congrats on shipping, Sidekick team! I've been a beta user for a while now and the product has been really effective in saving processing memory, which is amazing! There have been some hiccups here and there but the team is very responsive and fixes the bugs pretty quickly. Good luck!

Finally, a great product solving for bulky browsers. Downloaded and all set! Will share feedback in a week's time. Thanks for picking up this problem. Also congratulations on the launch 🚀