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http://microisv.com/ has some info.
Andy Brice's blog, Successful Software, sometimes has articles about other mISVs than himself. He has a product, Perfect Table Plan, that has done quite well. And he recently created another product that has also started doing well.
I'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 ex…
The goal for the desktop that I was talking about had nothing to do with these webby things. These should stay on the web and do their thing. You can have those small simple programs as a web app and on your phone. I think the downfall of the desktop is that people use them as if they were feeble things with a mail program and a web browser and some office programs on it, when they're actually capable of much more, which isn't leveraged except for some professional programs and games.
The desktop is - in my opinion - not primarily meant for little things. The desktop can and should handle the bleeding edge of high performance, parallel and accelerated computing that can't possibly run on anything else but a desktop. If we would stop thinking about whether a program will run well on a phone and explicitly target real computers, there would be a lot more purpose to desktop computing.
I'm not sure what that might be that doesn't exist, yet (maybe VR). But I'm sure that you can't do this all by yourself in a windowless room over a weekend, it'll probably be a large project involving quite a few programmers.
Then, the question of whether users will download your software is not the same as whether they will click on a website. Then, it's the same question as will they download Photoshop, will they download Reaper or will they download Maya? Will people download the next big thing in desktop computing?
I can think of Dropbox, Slack, GitHub right now.
Slack's desktop client is really just a wrapper around a web browser.
Just built with web technologies vs natively compiled binaries, which is an implementation detail that shouldn't matter to the end user, in my opinion.
It's Windows only / .NET
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?
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...
We are bootstrapped. An app like ours probably wouldn't make sense for a VC to back but it feels really great knowing that people from all over the world use it to backup their external drives to Dropbox or collaborate on the files on their NAS using Dropbox.
At one point you might feel out of the trend for not building a mobile or web app but I guess what matters is that your app helps someone, regardless of it being a web, mobile or desktop app.
http://www.jamkazam.com - we are not yet VC-backed, but I hope so soon. Because latency is an absolute premium for playing music in real-time across the internet, we've focused first on the desktop, where we have the most control ... but still find a ton of challenges. If you saw this recent article about Android and audio latency, you can see why there are challenges in the mobile space: https://news.ycombinator.com…
Have you tried to tell about your product on reddit? There are many subreddits interested in tech like this and in indie music production.
This "Ask HN" question makes me feel really, really old.
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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.
Actually 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.
http://blogs.telerik.com/appbuilder/posts/13-11-21/what-exac...