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linzhangruntoday at 6:44 AM3 repliesview on HN

I feel that software like this, which has the same functionality as the web version rather than leveraging the client's advantages to do things the web cannot, is not very meaningful


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nomorewordstoday at 7:58 AM

It's about app-ifying the desktop. Instead of opening a browser, then remembering that you have a bookmark and clicking it or googling the site you are looking for, the idea is to have a step less and just click something on your desktop or taskbar (like on a mobile device)

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chakintoshtoday at 10:36 AM

First thing I tried to find on that webpage is whether I can run Gemma models on the app with inference on-device. Apparently you can't.

solarkrafttoday at 8:25 AM

As long as installing web apps to desktop with real app UX sucks horribly, we will remain needing this.