Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by rimantas on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:25PM (#12568389)

What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by csallen on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:30PM (#12568878)

I think we've learned the exact opposite of that in the past 20 years.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by psadauskas on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:39PM (#12568452)

I disagree with that very strongly. I don't want to have to install 100+ desktop apps (and hope they're available for my OS, and up-to-date) to be able to use every service I interact with. If GMail, GCalendar, HN, GitHub, CircleCI, Google Docs, Slack, and every other web application I use every day were not in a browser, the world would be a much worse place. But all of those applications are built upon that pile of hacks, and much harder to write an maintain than they should be.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by dwaltrip on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:34PM (#12568883)

Why would you say that? The browser has become the most successful app platform ever built.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by EliRivers on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:49PM (#12571827)

I would have said Windows was the most successful app platform ever built.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by kkarakk on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:47AM (#12574921)

keyword is was. no one is excited about making innovative windows apps, it's a way to get your thing out to everyone but with all the traditional blocks(users have to find and install, different configurations might mess up your app etc)

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