[LogicWolfe]

I shared this view and built my partner a little web app to use for aggregating peer reviews for her students. It worked fine for a couple years until she had to go on maternity leave and hand it over to her replacement while she was gone. Due to data/privacy concerns it couldn’t be easily publicly hosted. It ended up being simplest to wrap it up as a Tauri App (coincidentally also on the HN front page right now) and distribute it that way. It’s now being used by a few people and I never have to worry about keeping it operational or losing/leaking data.

I guess in some ways I still went with your suggestion since it’s an html based gui, but local apps make data ownership way less problematic and are the right choice sometimes.

[bbor]

Great great example! Yes I was referring to exactly this - still making a local app for privacy/complexity reasons, but using html for the actual GUI. Will look into Tauri, never heard of it…