Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

guest · Oct 20, 2020

Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity
October 20, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/b...hat-gathers-knowledge-from-your-web-activity/

Browsing the web has become an effortless — and often mindless — task. You grab your phone or computer, you open a new tab and you type a few words in the address bar.

Beam, a new startup founded by Dom Leca and Sébastien Métrot, is working on a brand new app that is both a web browser and a note app. Dom Leca previously founded Sparrow, an email app for macOS and iOS that was acquired by Google in 2012. Sébastien Métrot has been working for Apple for several years.

“Everybody complains that Instagram and Facebook fry your brain and make you waste time,” Leca told me. And yet, web browsers represent infinite knowledge and infinite possibilities.
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If you’re very passionate about a niche topic, chances are you can learn a ton of things by reading stuff, watching videos, interacting on forums and more. But when you close your browser window, everything disappears.
Sure, you can bookmark pages or take notes in another app — but it’s a cumbersome process.
More importantly, you might not know what’s important and what’s not.

By combining passive note creation with a tiny nudge when you close a tab, you get to reflect on your web activity. It’s a way to learn more about yourself and your habits.
You could imagine a way to interact with content directly from your notes — click on a YouTube link to view the video directly in your card, click on a podcast link to see an automated transcript, etc.
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Beam is leveraging WebKit as the browser engine and is working on a Mac app for now. It’s going to take a few months before a public release, but it’s going to be an interesting company to follow.
The company raised $3.5 million (€3 million) [...]
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Beam raises €3m Seed round to launch a new way to collect ideas on the web

Not a note app, not a browser: ex-Sparrow founder Dom Leca sets to create a new way to experience the Internet
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Rasheed187 · Oct 24, 2020

Sorry but it does't really sound that useful, more like a gimmick. But I guess I need to see the finished product first, before I can make a final verdict.

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