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by sidewinder128 1809 days ago
Your app looks fine and interesting, The problem is the audience you are choosing, Mac users are very elitist.

I am sure you can get some market in Windows instead of Mac using electron, the windows users does not care which tech you used but that it just works and gets the job done.

Of course Windows users also they do not want trash but if have good performance and it works, It is fine.

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Good insight, I agree with you. We have found great fit with co-founders of early stage start-ups and product managers in high growth start-ups. Mac is overly present in this target audience, hence our initial start on MacOS!

That being said, it's on us to show users that a well-crafted Electron app can behave as nicely as a native one. Down the road, we might switch to a native app if we believe it would significantly deliver more value to our users.

If you are considering a native version, then you are not prioritizing multiplatform which is Electron's strong point. Why choosing it insted of something like Catalyst?

Mind you, I am not against Electron apps on my mac (Evernote user here heh)

Good question, mainly two points: 1. We had deep expertise in Electron and web dev. We are 4 months old so we wanted to validate the problem AND our solution as quickly as possible.

2. Meetings, by essence, have many stakeholders. Some (if not most) of the attendees are not on Hera and this is where having our core product mostly web compatible will proved to be useful - we can easily spin up for instance a public page to share the outcomes of your meeting to people not using hera

Sounds reasonable to me!