App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)

1. notes

   1 39 3,948 8.8 C++

   Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

   

   Hi there! Yes, I will switch to a more distinctive icon in the future once I can afford to hire a new designer.

   Multiplayer was quoting the correct reason. I also exeplained more about the timeline here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/issues/690#issuecomment...

   Tldr: The FOSS version earned a stable revenue through Google Ads placed on the website, since the website ranked high on Google searches. Two years ago, that changed since the website got de-ranked, so I created a different, proprietary version of the app based on the FOSS version but with a totally revamped block editor that I wrote from scratch - that I worked on full-time for a whole 1 year.

2. CodeRabbit

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3. romm

   2 10 3,393 9.9 Python

   A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.

   

   This reasoning is why I'm keen to try out RomM[0], a ROM library manager that has EmulatorJS[1] built in. Rather than having to setup emulation on each device where I want to play a simple game, I can instead use this combination to do it from any web browser on my local network.

   [0] https://github.com/rommapp/romm

   [1] https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

4. EmulatorJS

   3 16 1,980 8.8 JavaScript

   A web-based frontend for RetroArch

   

   This reasoning is why I'm keen to try out RomM[0], a ROM library manager that has EmulatorJS[1] built in. Rather than having to setup emulation on each device where I want to play a simple game, I can instead use this combination to do it from any web browser on my local network.

   [0] https://github.com/rommapp/romm

   [1] https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

5. daino-notes-public

   4 3 63 5.9 C++

   Write beautifully. Effortlessly. A note-taking app written in Qt C++ and QML.

   

   7. The previous version of Daino Notes, called Notes is FOSS (free and open-source software) available at https://www.notes-foss.com/ and the source code is available at https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes. I decided to make Daino Notes closed source due to difficulties in monetizing FOSS. In order to comply with Notes' MPL license, all common files between Notes and Daino Notes are published in https://github.com/nuttyartist/daino-notes-public

6. pwa-install

   5 1 472 8.8 TypeScript

   Installation dialog for Progressive Web Application. Provides a more convenient user experience and fixes the lack of native dialogs in some browsers.

   

   I haven't looked at this lately and so don't have a specific recommendation, but there are small libraries for helping iOS learn how to “install” PWAs using Share → Add to Home Screen.

   https://github.com/khmyznikov/pwa-install (Try on device: https://khmyznikov.com/pwa-install/)

7. webtransport-echo-server

   6 1 3 2.5 JavaScript

   A simple WebTransport server that supports bidi streams and just echos and received bytes back to the sender

   

   Yup, as I have found out over the last 5 hours. I managed to get a handshake but it's nowhere near the convenience of something like WebSockets. The security circus you have to go through to get even a handshake working is absolutely absurd, all sorts of extremely poorly documented certificate requirements and you'll be lucky to get an error message that helps you in any way. I'm getting ready to give up for the day, I will definitely make a top level HN post if I get a solution working and documented.

   Meanwhile https://github.com/achingbrain/webtransport-echo-server this is the best we have for a minimal working node example.

8. standards-positions

   7 207 670 7.8 HTML

   

   It’s important to note that it’s not a matter of effort for Firefox. They’ve decided that the it’s not something they want to implement[1]. The reasoning is that they think it allows low enough level access to potentially mess with devices who weren’t made to be resilient to malicious input, and didn’t like that the proposed method of allowing web Bluetooth is based on a default allow policy with a blocklist, which means as new Bluetooth device vulnerabilities are discovered, this blocklist has to be maintained.

   [1]: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#web-bluetooth

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10. marktext

    8 75 48,991 3.4 JavaScript

    📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

    

11. QBasicHtmlExporter

    9 1 1 1.7 C++

    Provides an alternative toHtml() function for QTextDocuments that export basic-formatted HTML.

    

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