Browse the internet with one simple sidebar that organises every page, task, and project inside 'Trails®' — nested groups of pages that capture the natural flow of each internet journey. That's right, – no more tabs, bookmarks, or history.
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]
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.
@pascalpixel You are the GOAT!!!! HOW DID THIS NOT EXIST ALREADY?!!!
Seriously, kudos. What an elegant solution and and absolute gamechanger for all the research I have to do, particularly for writing articles and stuff.
Keep it up!
I know Pascal well and he's an awesome dude, that cares a lot about the things he makes. He has a relentless focus on delivering quality. Keep it going homie.
Love the simplicity here. Horse seems to be everything I wanted Arc to be, but without all the distractions. It's clean and easy to jump back into projects. @pascalpixel
Wow, there's a saying in russian which goes "Да ты на коне!" which translates literally as you're on a horse but it means that you're having a streak of success lol
Congrats on the launch!
Keychain/login is the biggest block for me to start using it for some of the usecases but I'm looking closely at where horse can get to with all this attention and success?! Maybe we'll see nested tabs in arc and horse gets sold to apple?
Nestled groups seem like a great useful idea. In terms of my browsing habits, it feels refreshing.
Trying this for sure, Arc left me wanting for... something more. Can't quite place it.
I like the idea and simplicity. It's also brave to launch a new browser in a market that has been won by Arc.
I totally respect this and would consider it as a backup browser - because to be honest, I use Arc more as a personal workspace and less to dive into topics or really browse the web.
Then I realized, that this won't work for me either because I do all my research and browsing on my iPad after I close my Mac to end my work day.
So as much as I like the idea, it's the wrong platform for me.
Browsing/Research = iPad for me.
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.
The concept of organizing browsing sessions with Trail sounds efficient and refreshing. Does it also allow for any automation, like resuming specific Trails for recurring tasks or projects?
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.
Huge congrats to the Horse team on today's launch! I just dove into 'Trails' and I'm intrigued - how do you envision users handling sensitive info (e.g. banking, email) within these nested groups, ensuring security while keeping the simplicity intact?
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?
