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by rvz 2112 days ago
This. Is. Stunning.

Honestly, Thank you very much for creating this native app. I am fed up of my Macbook being served this Electron junk food that is filling up my computers RAM and disk space, which is unnecessary for the tasks I am doing. Discord, Keybase, Element, Zulip, Slack, Skype and many others are constantly fighting for RAM on my PC and running my system to the ground.

Some of the apps I mentioned are made by billion dollar companies with lots of employees and yet they still continue to use Electron to solve a problem that doesn't scale when multiple Electron apps are running. It's like Java but much worse. Yet you created a lightweight native alternative that is performant than the Electron counterparts. Not sure how it compares to Zoom (as that is native), but I would take your app (even if it is paid) over any Electron app Every. Single. Time.

I am starting to replace any Electron app whenever I can by exclusively finding native apps which direct using Cocoa, Qt, wxWidgets, etc. This is another app I am interested in looking at.

> If there’s enough demand, we’ll build out some of the big missing features like group calls and calendar integration.

Please support this.

EDIT: I looked at the macOS App store to check for screen sharing support it appears you have a typo in the screenshot? Screenshaing -> Screen Sharing?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1526974993

1 comments

Thank you for the kind words. Everything you said is exactly my motivation for building this. Please let me know what the experience of using it is like and what can we do to keep improving it.

When it comes to comparing this to Zoom, I would say that the video/audio quality is just as good if you have a good internet connection and a tiny little bit of luck. Like it really truly can be and has been many times during testing. What I think the app needs to be better at is handling situations where bandwidth is not as plentiful or the system doesn't have that menu resources. That's the next thing I want to work on with this.

Re: Typo: That one escaped me last night after putting the finishing touches on this. Will fix and upload to the App Store in a bit.