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by tyre 475 days ago
> you could always write a GUI app. it's not that hard for such a self-contained project

beautiful HN comment. They might simply be familiar with web apps and want to focus on the part that provides the most value to users.

The external network requests are optional. It can run fully locally.

They’re a tiny startup that just launched, trying to ship something that helps people. Building a native app is not the most impactful thing they could spend their time on.

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The part that provides most value to users is not shipping data to third parties needlessly. I can write the GUI for this app in a week.
Good thing that it is open source then, it means you can fix this issue in a week !
I totally can! I just won't, because I already have more valuable endeavors on which I plan to spend time over the next... 104 weeks, give or take.