I'm trying to figure out how he made the small grey lines under the subtitles like "Coding Skills" and "Design Skills"....can't figure out what's creating it. Anyone?
Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
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Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#52I'm trying to figure out how he made the small grey lines under the subtitles like "Coding Skills" and "Design Skills"....can't figure out what's creating it. Anyone?
You're in the wrong thread. :-)
But to answer your question anyway, this is the responsible line of code: https://github.com/marekdlugos/TakeMeAsIntern/blob/master/as...
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#53We are! http://fetching.io
Granted our desktop app is a highly customized version of our hosted web app. We use NWJS to package up our Meteor app (along with elastic search and mongo) to create a secure, local-only version of our personal web search tool.
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
clearly you haven't seen Breeze http://www.getbreezenow.com/
I've not worked with Breeze but have seen a couple of other HTML5-based frameworks that promise "native-like" capabilities. For the data-heavy enterprise world, none of them have worked.
I have used Breeze and it works beautifully. It is a bit complex but the results give you a very native like experience.
Ward Bell talks about it briefly here: http://www.viddler.com/v/94a02c0f
There are a few google talks about it on youtube too if you look. It's great for enterprise.
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#55I've heard a few times that creating a decent desktop program with a GUI takes far more skill and experience. I can see why that is, since a fully fletched desktop program can be orders of magnitude more complex than most of the mobile and web apps. I'd love to see more of the bleeding edge desktop software like the Adobe stuff, Blender, all the DAWs for Audio, etc. But it feels to me that not very many programmers h…
I don't think it's more skill, just different. I currently work on a DAW. I left for a while because I thought my skills were becoming obsolete and I needed to get in on this 'web' thing. I was useless and I lasted 9 months. To just jump in and learn html/js/css + everything else you need to be a web developer is a huge task. And a lot of stuff just doesn't work -- and the only way to know how to get it to work is experience.
By contrast I think C++ and realtime audio programming is simple, but I've slowly picked it up over almost 20 years. I retreated back to desktop apps and firmware. I'll take another stab at learning web technologies, but not at a startup where I need to deliver asap and learn at the same time.
As much as developers hate sandboxes, the lack of one (except Mac OS until recently) is why I think desktop is failing. Users just don't feel safe installing random software like they do going to websites or installing mobile apps. Users have been conditioned to only install software from sources they trust, and they trust no one.
If I post a link to my new web project, most people will click on it. If I post a link to an .exe almost nobody will download it. I think that's the main issue killing the desktop. Big downloads, compatibility issues, slow installs are also an issue, but I think they are secondary.
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#56There may be a diminishing audience of consumer desktop users, but I don't see the business audience of desktop users dwindling. But B2B enterprise software doesn't get the coverage of fast-growing consumer startups. Are there industry-specific news sources to uncover some of this? I have a few web apps that target business, and they simply wouldn't ever be utilized on a mobile device. There's some things that presently and always will require a desktop setup.
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#57I'm trying to figure out how he made the small grey lines under the subtitles like "Coding Skills" and "Design Skills"....can't figure out what's creating it. Anyone?
You're in the wrong thread. :-) But to answer your question anyway, this is the responsible line of code: https://github.com/marekdlugos/TakeMeAsIntern/blob/master/as...
What is the correct thread? I am curious to what this comment is about now?
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're in the wrong thread. :-) But to answer your question anyway, this is the responsible line of code: https://github.com/marekdlugos/TakeMeAsIntern/blob/master/as...
What is the correct thread? I am curious to what this comment is about now?
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#59Sia: siacoin.com github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia We're ultimately trying to build a decentralized object store Platform, but our initial approach is a desktop application. We're hoping that the majority of embedded and streamed content on the web is stored on and fetched from our Platform.
Stuff like this seems really interesting to me. How is Sia different from filecoin?
Re: Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?
#60In 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.
The only studios that have lock in and network effects are those that launch successful MMOs. And the only independent company running a successful MMO at the moment is, as far as I know, CCP Games. Blizzard doesn't really count - they haven't been an independent company since 1994.