Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps?

Posted by tjr on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @12:54AM
from the self-post dept.

Web applications seem to be all the rage right now, and rightfully so. Just curious to discuss the state of the art and state of utility of desktop applications.

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by cperciva on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:41AM (#91047)

We had this discussion 52 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73112

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by tjr on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @03:45PM (#91266)

Sorry for the repost then, and thank you for the link!

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by dhouston on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @06:11AM (#91108)

http://getdropbox.com

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by hhm on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @09:44AM (#91144)

I am / was, for enterprise (advergaming for expositions and such). Now I'm getting interested by the computer vision world...

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by dfranke on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:20AM (#91042)

I am, but it's for developers, not end-users.

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by dougfort on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @04:53AM (#91098)

We just launched SpiderOak: http://www.spideroak.com

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Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? by terpua on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:09AM (#91040)

We are doing one as part of a desktop/web app.

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