Horse - The Organized Browser

Horse came up on my Twitter (X) feed after the news that the folks behind Arc were pivoting to build another browser. Seems pretty interesting and like a lightweight version of Arc that could be a good alternative for power users.

thanks for hunting horse @gabe <3 hello product hunt! i’m pascal pixel, designer and coding person. last time i was here, i launched a clock, but this time i really went all in… i built a browser! two years ago i met someone who was building a command palette extension for chrome because, as he put it, “tabs suck”. naturally, i asked, “why not just fix tabs?” and he replied, “pfff, how can anyone fix tabs?” …and that's when a possible solution, trails, hit me like lightning i couldn’t explain it to anyone no matter how hard i tried (still difficult), so i just started building an mvp. i honestly thought it’d take two months to pull off and launch on product hunt, but here we are two years later i'm mostly building it for myself, but turns out a whole bunch of other people like it too. so that's really rewarding and it feels like i'm making something useful for others [humblebrag 9000]

I've used Horse for the last 4 months, switching over from Arc (before it was cool 😂). I switched because (1) I love vertical tabs (2) For all the shiny features of Arc, I found the spaces more overwhelming than they gave me a feeling of organisation and being in control. Arc is a lot of fun little ideas put together but eventually it felt like less than the sum of its parts. I really wanted a simple browser where I can can organise myself around my projects easily so I can be more intentional, and Horse 🐴 is that for me. It's early days so it doesn't do everything, and isn't for everyone. I know Pascal has a million comments asking for full chrome extension support to come sooner! But if you are borderline ADHD or someone who saves a lot of pages and wants to get their projects done, I really recommend it. Excited to see where this ends up 🚀

I support anyone who takes the utterly infinitely complex task of trying to solve tab & link management :) I saw this on Twitter the other day as well! Love the concept of Trails, definitely a unique way to manage the browsing experience. But on it's own I think it still leaves a lot of things to be solved. Curious to see how it develops overtime. All the best @pascalpixel

Great idea!!! congrats! i suffer the same problem, one thing thou, i would of name it "trails"... why did horse came up as a name? would love to hear the stroy

Congratulations @gabe @pascalpixel on the launch of Trails®! This sidebar is an innovative way to browse the internet. The organized groups make it easy to follow the flow of projects and tasks without tabs or bookmarks

I swear I was looking for a browser like this! Is it heavier than Arc?

All this time we were told that browsers needed to be made by huge teams with millions of $ in VC funded, and the legions of influencer hype that comes with it – but then I used Horse and realized that was a lie. Lol but seriously, Horse is a great browser that really excels if you're the kind of person that thinks of your tabs as series of web of pages grouped around research themes (aka Trails). In this case 'research' doesn't only mean scholorly academia, but also tasks like buying the perfect blender, or figuring the error message on some code that won't compile means.

Wow this looks clean and simple. I would assume the previously nested pages aren't cached? Which would probably make reloading a tad slower? But significantly reduce the memory load on device?

I wonder, how this compares to Tree Style Tab or other similar extensions? And what was the thought process of forking Chromium as opposed to creating a chrome extension for this?

I just had to say this – I reallyyyy like the horse models at the end of your website! They’re just mesmerizing in a way that’s hard to explain but impossible to ignore.

Love this idea. Also, Pascal is just a really genuinely fun nice dude :)

When my new Mac mini arrives Horse will be the only browser on it

Can't find the download - is there really no way to try it before dropping $20 on this?

Congrats on the launch! Hope it goes well 🎉

Love this product, such a great idea for organising and curating browser through bubbles 🫧 💪🏼 🌟

Great thoughts and big congratulation to your launch!

Awesome take on browsing history, love it!

This came on my X feed too, but I think the founder did not wanted to launch on Product Hunt. Did you launch this with his consent @gabe

Even the name of this browser is so cool!