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I think YC tends to attract people who want to innovate... but who associates desktop software with innovation anymore? That's so 1983. Younger guys have never
by oldgregg 18y ago
I think YC tends to attract people who want to innovate... but who associates desktop software with innovation anymore? That's so 1983. Younger guys have never "wasted" the time to develop the requisite skill-set and older guys haven't bothered to keep up their chops.
Besides, anybody who actually goes to MSDN conferences and hacks the windows API is probably on the corporate dole and would never be so dumb as to try starving/start-up.
On the upside, if everyone around here was still obsessing over client software, somebody might have beat RescueTime to the punch! :)
- webwright 18y agoHeh- true 'nuff! If we could do what we do using only web software, we would. It seems that apps like Quicksilver (Mac), Enso (Windows), Firefox, etc., are still pretty darn innovative. But the agility that the web affords is pretty darn addictive.
- arockwell 18y agoI think within your post right here lies a lot of the problem. There needs to be a really compelling to write something as desktop software instead of as a web app, so most people don't even bother to learn how to write desktop software in the first place.
- toni 18y agoAbsolutely, the paradigm of 'client-software' is becoming ambiguous for most of the web people. 'Porting' an existing web app to a 'client software' is a very trivial work, thanks to stuff like XULRunner.