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Looks good, although I'm a little bit sad about this web application trend. I mean I get the ease of deployment -- just open the webpage and use it. But this

Looks good, although I'm a little bit sad about this web application trend. I mean I get the ease of deployment -- just open the webpage and use it. But this application is just temporary; it won't exist after 15 years; it will change into something else, or it will cease to exist. It will be impossible to use older version of it. It won't be possible to preserve it, emulate it. If the server is off, the application dies. In contrast, it's still possible to install the original Lotus 1-2-3, an application from 1983. The amount of applications that I've seen which aren't available anymore (even to be seen) is staggering. I see it as a waste of resources. Webapps have their advantages, but I see their core trait as ephemeral -- that might be sometimes a good thing, but I see it as a disadvantage.

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mittermayr 3y ago
I agree, this is also going to get much worse. I recently dipped back into some of the younger SaaS communities (Twitter is particularly crazy) and it's just madness. They make something, (ab)use anything they can find to push this in front of people and promote it, and if it doesn't throw cash within the minute, it will be left for dead. I'd even argue that some of these tools have a lifetime of a month or less. With AI, this is typically the moment when they run out of their first OpenAI top up and start to abandon.
trangram 3y ago
I understand your concern. There're always some trade-off over there. Taking Trangram implementation for example, I have to choose among different front-end frameworks considering all the strength and weakness, features and performance, documentation and community activeness; Creating new features and functionalities from scratch or use existing 3rd-party libs which is usually heavyweight in file size and may probably cause compatibility issues in the future; Determining which cloud servers to host Trangram so as to balance the performance and the cost. etc... And in terms of web apps vs native apps, we have to balance things like compatibility and maintainability. Anyway, I will try my best to make Trangram sustainable and bring values to everyone by creating and sharing creative contents.

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mittermayr 3y ago

I agree, this is also going to get much worse. I recently dipped back into some of the younger SaaS communities (Twitter is particularly crazy) and it's just madness. They make something, (ab)use anything they can find to push this in front of people and promote it, and if it doesn't throw cash within the minute, it will be left for dead. I'd even argue that some of these tools have a lifetime of a month or less. With AI, this is typically the moment when they run out of their first OpenAI top up and start to abandon.

trangram 3y ago

I understand your concern. There're always some trade-off over there. Taking Trangram implementation for example, I have to choose among different front-end frameworks considering all the strength and weakness, features and performance, documentation and community activeness; Creating new features and functionalities from scratch or use existing 3rd-party libs which is usually heavyweight in file size and may probably cause compatibility issues in the future; Determining which cloud servers to host Trangram so as to balance the performance and the cost. etc... And in terms of web apps vs native apps, we have to balance things like compatibility and maintainability. Anyway, I will try my best to make Trangram sustainable and bring values to everyone by creating and sharing creative contents.