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What 'best metrics'?
I think in this case it can be approximated as 'largest market' I'd wager there are more people paying for software for their smart phone than any other platform they use.
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"The Browser" has turned out to be a pretty terrible application API, IMO. First, which browser? They are all (and have been) slightly different in infuriating ways going all the way back to IE6 and prior. Also, a lot of compromises were made while organically evolving what was supposed to be "a system for displaying and linking between text pages" into a cross-platform application and system API. The web's HTML/CSS…
They're not that different, and it's a pretty good platform and pretty easy to program for. That's why it won.
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For what it’s worth, I tried making a GTK4 app. I got started, created a window, created a header bar, then went to add a url/path entry widget and everything fell apart. Entry suggestions/completions are formally deprecated with no replacement since 2022. When I did get them working on the deprecated API there was an empty completion option that would segfault if clicked. The default behaviour didn’t hide completion…
There are definitely a shortage of good GUI toolkits - making one is a huge undertaking. GTK is mediocre, as you discovered. QtWidgets is extremely good though, even if it is effectively in maintenance mode. Avalonia also seems good too though I haven't used it myself.
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If you need to sloganize a reminder to yourself to not be evil, that's not a promising sign
Early in Google's history, I took that sentiment as saying that they were one of us (Internet people), and weren't going to act like Microsoft (at the time, regarded by Internet people as an underhanded and ignorant company). Even though Google had a very nice IR function and general cluefulness, and seemed destined to be big and powerful. And if it were the altruistic Internet people they hired, the slogan/mantra co…
It's hard to believe not only that this is 17 years old, but that I remember when he posted it!
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They're not that different, and it's a pretty good platform and pretty easy to program for. That's why it won.
It didn't win. It just survived long enough. The web is a terrible platform. I haven't ever shipped a line of "web code" for money and I plan to keep it that way until I retire. What a miserable way to make a living.
Great, good riddance. Hopefully open source and/or AI push this person out of developing entirely. People who focus this much on "conversion" et al are dinosaurs who deserve extinction.
Great, good riddance. Hopefully open source and/or AI push this person out of developing entirely. People who focus this much on "conversion" et al are dinosaurs who deserve extinction.
The author (who is a frequent commenter here) started a company called Appointment Reminder after writing this, which for years was my favorite example of an independent small company that identified a niche, served it well, and then went on to be acquired. There's an interview with him on the subject that is sadly behind a paywall now: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-grew-my-appointment-... The world has cha…