[PaulHoule]

Web applications. If it is at all possible to make it a a web application why mess around with anything else? The other day I was struggling with "How the hell do I tell Android users how to find a QR code that really works in the play store" and then it hit me... Web based QR code reader and done!

It can be depressing that you have 20 electron applications running to put icons in the tray but heck... everybody wants to stuff icons in your tray and most of those x-platform frameworks can't make a tray icon. I did an evaluation of a whole bunch of x-platform frameworks and they all sucked, though I do like JavaFX best of all. There's a reason why Electron is as big as it is.

[quickthrower2]

I agree but to go further, for an MVP: Just release a regular web app that does a decent PWA!

In Chrome you can turn any page into an taskbar iconned app from the menu now. Tell your users to do that. Actually an easier “install”. Web APIs do so much and you can integrate with Dropbox/OneDrive for file access (or use the apis if you want).

Offline is available using service workers. Camera, location, touch, gyro, etc. are all available.