> Can you walk me through how a web app would implement that feature? Same way you open a URL in the App Store? Not hard to let VSCode manage repo URL => works

> Can you walk me through how a web app would implement that feature? Same way you open a URL in the App Store? Not hard to let VSCode manage repo URL => workspace path mappings. > Also many desktop apps also support tabs Read again: "10-15 open from a few different repos that stay mixed in with other pages for context". Can't do that. You need a pretty huge value proposition for me to be willing to drop contextual tabbing to switch to your native app. > I'm not really following this paragraph, e.g. "showing alerts that when clicked" That's on you man, you brought up notifications. You also clearly understood when you replied on-point, no need for dramatically hand-waving an entire paragraph as incomprehensible. > In my experience, the number of developers that use a GUI git client is vanishingly small This tells me that GitHub.com is doing the everything-except-staging-commits job just fine for most people. AFAIK you add little value extending GH's analysis to live checkouts, and to gain what little there is, you'd have to bring some of that analysis online, compiled into the app, instead of cloud job queues. Pretty obvious why they wouldn't want to do that!