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I think it depends who your audience is. Everyone I work with is more than happy to install the Slack electron app, but none of them read HN.

If your intended audience is a 'Show HN' expect to be damned for it. If your audience spans say Windows and Mac and are technical but perhaps less technical than HN readers it can be an easy way to extend your web app onto the desktop.

Also it might depend on whether your app needs to always run in the background or not. For example I use Pencil [0] for UX mockups, it doesn't bother me that it's an electron app because I only need it for a few days a month. However the persistent RAM use of Slack eventually annoyed me enough that I uninstalled it.

[0]: http://pencil.evolus.vn/