[latitude]

One man’s “beautiful” is another man’s “flat and bare” :)

That said - $20 feels right for this sort of thing. Gotta be light, polished and snappy though, truly exceptional. Not of an Electron variety. The fee is basically a pat on a back for the developer for a job well done.

Certainly not more, because it’s a goodwill purchase. But if it’s less, then it’ll look like a temp side project with a limited life expectancy.

[ryeguy_24]

Haven't ever seen Electron until now. What's wrong with Electron?

[ancarda]

Programs built with Electron are written in HTML 5 packaged by wrapping Chromium around it. People's main beef with Electron is size (of the binary) and memory usage. Since you're technically running a whole webbrowser (just with 1 "tab"), it's quite heavy. Think of a simple calculator app taking 50 MB of disk space and using 150 MB of RAM

A lot of programs these days are built using Electron, or similar techniques (packaged HTML 5 app) partly as it's a quick way to build an app that's cross platform and has a lot of functionality

[Wowfunhappy]

Electron apps basically include and run a full copy of the Chromium web browser, with all the cpu and memory requirements that entails.