Show HN: Convert Web app into a Desktop app in 2 minutes

Post by pruebas » Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 9:34 AM UTC

Post by yodon » Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 3:01 AM UTC

yodon wrote: post #4

Nice web page. $600/year to npm run electron around a web page seems a bit steep but if people will pay you for it more power to you, at least until someone else makes a site to do it for $45/mo, and then someone else for $39/mo, and then ...

Post by throw03172019 » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 3:48 AM UTC

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 9:43 PM UTC

yodon wrote: post #9

quickthrower2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it doesn't work like that. Businesses will prefer to go for the most well known or branded. The $600 a year is nothing to them. Segment being a case in point.

There are zero barriers to entry here. If this becomes anything past ramen profitable it will have a ton of competitors all with equally professional websites and enough of those competitors will attempt to use lower pricing as a means of capturing market share to guarantee rapid downward pricing.