> Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
To save you a click: It's harder to monetize desktop apps than webapps.
Lol. LMAO, even.
I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
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Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#12> Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications To save you a click: It's harder to monetize desktop apps than webapps. Lol. LMAO, even.
it's amazing how freeing working an office job is. my personal projects don't have concerns such as monetization.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#13> Web Applications Convert Better
ok, now do this analysis for mobile apps...
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#14Grass always looks greener on the other side, mainly because it's been fertilised.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#15I would like to go back to 2009 =) The world was definitely simpler, and Bitcoin was cheaper =)
Please pick up a few bitcoins for me too when you go there
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#16I wonder what the numbers say about desktop applications now, and how much the arrival of Electron changed things up here. Nowadays, it seems to be that mobile apps have the "best metrics" for b2c software. I'd be interested to read a contemporary version of this article.
Electron is the worst of both worlds. I have never paid for an Electron app, and never will. Horrid UX.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#17Almost all of Patrick's points are great if your software development goal is to make a buck. They don't seem to matter if you're writing open source, and I'd argue that desktop apps are still relevant and wonderful in the open source world. I just started a new hobby project, and am doing it as a cross-platform, non-Electron, desktop app because that's what I like to develop.
The onboarding funnel: Only a concern if you're trying to grow your user base and make sales.
Conversion: Only a concern if you're charging money.
Adwords: Only a concern if, in his words, you're trying to "trounce my competitors".
Support: If you're selling your software, you kind of have to support it. Minor concern for free and open source.
Piracy: Commercial software concern only.
Analytics and Per-user behavior: Again, only commercial software seems to feel the need to spy on users and use them as A/B testing guinea pigs.
The only point I can agree with him that makes web development better is the shorter development cycles. But I would argue that this is only a "developer convenience" and doesn't really matter to users (in fact, shorter development cycles can be worse for users as their software changes rapidly like quicksand out from under them.) To me, in my open source projects, my "development cycle" ends when I push to git, and that can be done as often as I want.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#18This is from 2009, and the title should say so.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#19I wonder what the numbers say about desktop applications now, and how much the arrival of Electron changed things up here. Nowadays, it seems to be that mobile apps have the "best metrics" for b2c software. I'd be interested to read a contemporary version of this article.
Electron is the worst of both worlds. I have never paid for an Electron app, and never will. Horrid UX.
> I have never paid for an Electron app
Your employer most likely has.
Re: I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
#20I was curious why AI wasn't mentioned. Then I noticed the date: 2009.