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Is there a tl;dr anywhere of what this is? Is it just another for-fun tech demo of putting an OS-like GUI in a web browser?

• tgv 4y ago
  Indeed, the info window doesn't provide any info, so my best guess is that you can create documents (and apps?), save and probably publish them. It's a sort of remote desktop in a browser, but actually all that's remote is the storage. It does seem quite limited, so I'm not sure what it offers more than novelty (and even that's limited). Perhaps the app builder is good. I didn't check it. So I went back to try it: app names are apparently global. I couldn't create an app called "test" because "Name is already used by another app. Please pick another name." Oh, an app is just a URL. Clicking on it just opens the URL in a new window/iframe. It looks as if you can attach a document to the app, so perhaps it sends that along when you drop a document on the icon. Would be neat, but it does rely on other people making and publishing your killer app, and provide the infrastructure for it. I smell micropayments.