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Strongly agree. Hello World apps are great but it would be even better to see a Hello World tutorial that can actually be distributed to customers. You probably also need auto-update, native installers, code signing (notarization on Mac) and the ability to build native modules cross-platform.

This is a super-interesting project though.

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Sure, would be great if everything had everything we need at creation. But this is first a Show HN from a user here and secondly open source software, so I think you need to adjust your expectations a bit.

Agree with your final part, very exciting and gonna be interesting to see where nodegui goes, especially security wise.

This is awesome. Props to the authors. My comment was not meant to knock on this project. I'm just pointing out that people should consider distribution if they want to use a tool like this. Putting a desktop app in front of customers is not yet as easy as it is on the web but I'm working on making it better [1].

[1] https://www.todesktop.com/cli

Both the App Store and Microsoft Store deal with installs and updates, no need for custom wrappers. Not sure about Linux.

End-users are still more familiar with a download link on a website for a exe/dmg installer on desktop.

You also need to need to redo your subscription/payments to support the stores and give a percentage of your revenue to Apple/Microsoft. On mobile you have no option but on desktop it's hard to justify giving up so much of your profit margin when there's a popular alternative.

BTW, Linux has the Snap Store.

Hmm I really don’t think so. You might be thinking of tech people, not the general public.

All of the non-technical people I know are capable of installing software on desktop computers without using app stores.

I have a mac laptop and windows desktop and I never use the app stores.

I have used each of them exactly once. In both cases, it was to purchase an OS upgrade.

You’re the HN audience.

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