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Arc shuts down Dec 22th - I built an open source version

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Arc is shutting down next month, since it is "too hard to maintain" a wrapper around Chromium. I'll have my agents build & maintain it, open source. This is not a half working Chrome extension, but a full browser replacement. It's free, open-source that works the way you are used to. Same sidebar, same Spaces, same ⌘T, multiple chrome profiles. Download Airc for Apple silicon Macs.

PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • Open Source

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Could you build this?

No A full browser replacement means building or forking a browser engine, and keeping it secure and current against Chromium releases is a large, expert-level engineering effort. AI assistance does not replace that depth or the ongoing security maintenance.

What it would actually take: A real version would need a Chromium fork or an embedded engine like WebKit or Gecko, with its own sandboxing, update pipeline, extension compatibility, and sync services. Ongoing work is continuous patching for security CVEs, which requires browser-internals and security engineers plus substantial CI build infrastructure across platforms.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 49 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 50 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Open Arc · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Stedding Browser · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Zigzag Browser · ph · 2026-11-08 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • UI Arc · ph · 2026-10-01 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • ElixirBrowser · hn · 2026-01-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Chrome Appearance Switcher · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
  • ResumeTabs · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
  • snowium · github · 2026-10-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.35

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