There are tons of VC-backed startups making mobile and web apps but are there any VC-backed startups making a desktop app?
Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
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#4In the traditional, server-independent, sense? Hard to serve advertisements that way.
There's always a lot of new game studios, but I don't think they count. There's no end-game in games development, no lock-in, no network-effects, no industry-standard-status. A single bad game can ruin the studio.
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#5Actually most are making native mobile apps. I'm a mobile guy making a cross compatible web app. Why anyone would make a native app in our world of ECMAScript6 and HTML5 is beyond me.
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#6we have a hybrid desktop/web app www.iorad.com. The desktop app does the captures and sends it to the web page for configuring.
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#7Actually most are making native mobile apps. I'm a mobile guy making a cross compatible web app. Why anyone would make a native app in our world of ECMAScript6 and HTML5 is beyond me.
Having sane tools, languages and adequate performance maybe. :)
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#8Actually most are making native mobile apps. I'm a mobile guy making a cross compatible web app. Why anyone would make a native app in our world of ECMAScript6 and HTML5 is beyond me.
Having sane tools, languages and adequate performance maybe. :)
The web will eat up everything, watch.
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#9I can think of Dropbox, Slack, GitHub right now.