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orbital | pareto-mac | |
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93 | 304 | |
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3.4 | 6.9 | |
10 months ago | 14 days ago | |
TypeScript | Swift | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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orbital
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
I tried to make 2 different desktop apps in 2021 and failed at both.
Atomic Edits[0] is a desktop app that helps YouTubers (like me) automatically remove silence in videos. It went viral on Reddit[1] but I realized later that building a video editing app with Electron (and not C++) was a bad choice. Library support video/audio editing was lacking.
Recut[2] is an app that basically does what Atomic Edits aimed to do, but actually succeeded. I think it's because it was a native Mac app which meant it had access to better libraries for editing videos. (That or I gave up too early on Atomic Edits.)
Orbital[3] is desktop app that allows you to search, filter, preview video files on your computer like YouTube. I posted on some subreddits and it had potential but I realized it wouldn't be enough to sustain me. It could've worked as a side-project but being as my main source of income was from YouTube ad-revenue, it wasn't worth it.
VideoHubApp[4] is a desktop app that does what Orbital aimed to do and actually earned a couple thousand dollars. It was started a few years earlier and was built with a similar tech stack.
All that is to say, I made desktop apps that had potential, but I did not have the time to spend making them feature complete.
[0] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/atomic-edits
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ohbl6i/i_made_a_des...
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Secure note apps?
Encrypt your Mac (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > FileVault tab), set a good password, scan your Mac with Pareto to find other security measures you should consider.
- Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
What are some alternatives?
GameDev - 👾 The code for my game dev + computer graphics experiments on YouTube. [Moved to: https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Gamedex]
atomic-edits - 🎬 A desktop app that automatically removes silence from videos.
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
tailwind-clones - 🍃 Cloning the UIs' of popular websites with Tailwind CSS.
OpenRefine - OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
mac-monitor - Red Canary Mac Monitor is an advanced, stand-alone system monitoring tool tailor-made for macOS security research. Beginning with Endpoint Security (ES), it collects and enriches system events, displaying them graphically, with an expansive feature set designed to reduce noise.
magic-wormhole - get things from one computer to another, safely
application - Buckets Desktop Application
video-cutter - Cut any video online using FFMPEG... no server needed ! (Thanks WebAssembly)
open-source-mac-os-apps - 🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps