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Re: Show HN: horbito – The new Cloud

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Post by Oatary »

Web desktops are back again! It seems it's been a long time since I last saw one. This topic always generates a big debate whether a cloud os is the future or not. In my opinion, the idea of running a universally accepted "computer" accessible from anywhere and any device is actually really powerful and centralizing all our internet lifes in one place so we can control our data is huge.

EDIT: I've been playing around with horbito for a while and it's pretty badass, it works quite fast and integrates really well with Microsoft Office, kudos for the team

Re: Show HN: horbito – The new Cloud

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Post by openmaze »

Oatary wrote: post #4

Web desktops are back again! It seems it's been a long time since I last saw one. This topic always generates a big debate whether a cloud os is the future or not. In my opinion, the idea of running a universally accepted "computer" accessible from anywhere and any device is actually really powerful and centralizing all our internet lifes in one place so we can control our data is huge. EDIT: I've been playing around…

Thank you very much!! We also think web desktops are the future, there have been many attempts in the past but they never really worked, technology has advaced a lot since then and has enabled us to create for the fist time a really good user experience

Re: Show HN: horbito – The new Cloud

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Post by Robby2023 »

exposheet wrote: post #6

I'm sorry but I don't get it, why would I want another layer over my OS to access my apps?

To me it seems that we don't really use our OS anymore, we do all our work online/cloud (Dropbox, Drive, Slack, Trello, Gmail...) so it makes sense to unify all our services into one place

Re: Show HN: horbito – The new Cloud

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Post by openmaze »

exposheet wrote: post #6

I'm sorry but I don't get it, why would I want another layer over my OS to access my apps?

The web wasn't really created for the use that is given today and we're using our browsers like a pseudo-OS, this causes that webapps can't talk between each other and it requires a specific integration with each one of the services you want your app to communicate with.

However, when you develop an app for Windows or Mac you needn't worry about integrations, it's already integrated with all the installed programs on the computer out of the box, it's the OS who is in charge of managing the communication between apps.

Re: Show HN: horbito – The new Cloud

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Post by Charliecf »

Oatary wrote: post #4

Web desktops are back again! It seems it's been a long time since I last saw one. This topic always generates a big debate whether a cloud os is the future or not. In my opinion, the idea of running a universally accepted "computer" accessible from anywhere and any device is actually really powerful and centralizing all our internet lifes in one place so we can control our data is huge. EDIT: I've been playing around…

Great point, I'm checking out office now... I use to be a heavy excel user, but ever since arch, I've been stuck on gsheets

if this could run excel smoothly, it would be pretty amazing, I've been trying to find a solution but yet to find a good seamless one. Wine/virtualbox are both mediocre solutions atm.

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