konmouz

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   by konmouz 5y ago

   Happy to see this thread on HN so I'll add a bit of context since many people have questions about the purpose and use cases of EtcherPro. - Software is the core focus of our company balena ( https://www.balena.io/ ). Fo
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   > will always be an Electron app I can't guarantee that
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   This setup can work well. EtcherPro is using the standard Etcher app too. The performance and the UX won't be the same, but as you said it will be much cheaper.
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   If the price is justifiable or not depends on your use case. But if you flash drives systematically, then you will spend way more time if you use USB hubs. Apart from the actual speed, UX is a major point. For instance, often enough drives
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   You are spot on. We initially started by literally 'cobbling together USB hubs and multi-port readers from Amazon' but we couldn't hit the performance we wanted so we ended up designing our own hardware. EtcherPro uses the st
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   Also true
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   That's not our intention actually. Etcher, the open source app that EtcherPro is using, keeps evolving all the time, so we wanted EtcherPro to be able to keep up. Nevertheless, EtcherPro is hackable by design, so if you have concerns y
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   by konmouz 5y ago

   Yes, it's currently an electron app