[chrisdalke]

I've been following Derek closely as he's been working for the past >1 year to make MockRocket a reality. Congratulations on the launch!

I saw a discussion on HN earlier today criticizing SPAs for offloading data processing to the user's machine, benefiting Facebook/Google/big tech at the expense of the user experience. I think that conversation sometimes misses the positive side of React/client-based apps.

MockRocket and other web-based creative tools demonstrate the strength of the web as an application platform, making complex tools more accessible and easily distributed than before. Derek's built a pretty slick editing & rendering experience that allows more people access to video editing, without having a powerful machine with a GPU. I'm incredibly impressed with the rendering fidelity he's been able to build into MockRocket and excited to play around with it more.

Another great application is https://www.photopea.com/ -- a pretty powerful photoshop competitor that also works exclusively in the browser. Looking forward to seeing more people build and distribute creative/technical tools that more people have access to.

[dfeehrer]

Thanks Chris!

Agreed–data processing on the user's device can certainly be abused in some cases, but when it's used right you can build some pretty amazing experiences with modern web APIs.

Closely following the development of WebGPU as well–I think that's going to enable a whole new class of web apps with serious graphics and compute power.