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by sirjaz 1248 days ago
When will retool be able to do this for native desktop apps? Especially for Windows. Otherwise, you are leaving 2+ billion active devices off the table
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Retool PM here - we're working on tablets right now but have also considered opening up to desktop apps. Are there any particularly use cases you're thinking of where you'd need desktop over web?
You can access a web version from desktop right? In my experience a web version is more accessible than a desktop version. A significant percentage of desktops are locked down: schools, libraries, internet cafes, corporates, …

Is there much of a market left for non-compute intensive desktop apps? Or desktop apps that are a flagship product (slack client, zoom client, etc) but would you use a low code tool for that?