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I'm building a desktop-first (SaaS-eventual) data IDE for developers [0]. Making a living? Not yet.
It being desktop-first makes it as easy to try out in a corporate environment as Sublime. The data never leaves your machine. Desktop-first is a big deal in devtools for this reason.
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
I work on a desktop budgeting application. I love that it's desktop-only (and so do the users)! It doesn't earn a living (yet), but it makes more than enough to cover expenses.
[0] https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com
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...
[2] https://getrecut.com/
[3] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/orbital
[4] https://videohubapp.com/en/
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...
[2] https://getrecut.com/
[3] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/orbital
[4] https://videohubapp.com/en/
For reference I'm taking my shot with https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (webview2 supported on Windows) and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for a PDF processing related use case.
Wails because I imagine extensive Golang based services (preference/experience) in any cloud env. C# would be my other approach for O365 based integrations.
Rust has something similar to wails, https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri . Then there all the traditional native vs cross-platform methods.
No approach, or cross platform framework, really seem quite right. But I figure time and money would be the important factors in any serious avenue I want to take things.
For reference I'm taking my shot with https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (webview2 supported on Windows) and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for a PDF processing related use case.
Wails because I imagine extensive Golang based services (preference/experience) in any cloud env. C# would be my other approach for O365 based integrations.
Rust has something similar to wails, https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri . Then there all the traditional native vs cross-platform methods.
No approach, or cross platform framework, really seem quite right. But I figure time and money would be the important factors in any serious avenue I want to take things.
For reference I'm taking my shot with https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (webview2 supported on Windows) and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for a PDF processing related use case.
Wails because I imagine extensive Golang based services (preference/experience) in any cloud env. C# would be my other approach for O365 based integrations.
Rust has something similar to wails, https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri . Then there all the traditional native vs cross-platform methods.
No approach, or cross platform framework, really seem quite right. But I figure time and money would be the important factors in any serious avenue I want to take things.
> It still seems more viable to start with a standalone, offline, Desktop solution that individual enterprise employees might consider trying / e.g. something like an app that replaces excel with better efficiencies. Maybe while building some SaaS-like component (advanced processing in cloud, API integrations, etc) that still opens the door for non-enterprise users.
This is currently my approach -- not making a living (yet hopefully) -- but will report back soon. I have a baddie of a productivity tool that can fragment features to a few pay per use web APIs that I'll package with a front end for non-enterprise.
A slight tangent: It's very, very challenging to enable collaboration in these types of environments. Magic Wormhole [0] has been an interesting solution I've wanted to integrate, but haven't yet.
[0] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
Have you looked into .NET MAUI yet? I'm cautiously optimistic, but haven't dug into it. Should be releasing Q2 this year.
https://github.com/dotnet/maui
I installed beekeeper[1], an electron AppImage, this afternoon on a 11th gen Acer spin 713 chromebook. You just need to have linux support enabled in the Dev settings. Only newer, higher end chromebooks have the linux support feature. I prefer dbeaver, but there appears to be some kind of GTK dpi scaling issue with it.
1.https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/