I think you've heard this a thousand times by now; "We spend most of our time on the web browser, yet nothing has changed." And then a "revolutionary" product comes out that puts our links & tabs collapsed on the side, with some extra features. Magical, right :)?
Well, we tried a lot of these products, and we also tried building one ourselves about 8years ago. But we felt like no UI can handle the same kind of organization our desktop can, and that's when the idea first came to our mind ~5years ago. For the past year, we worked on the side to build the MVP you see today. But along these years, a lot of thoughts kept popping up, and that's why this product has an OS in it's name (it's still cooking :).
Unlike other desktop-like products that are accessible on the browser, Sava OS is not only built and made to run natively on the web browser, but it actually has some useful features to help with your browsing management - and that's only the beginning.
There's still a lot to consider when it comes to shaping a modern, desktop-like UI that meets today's needs.. We’ve got some exciting ideas and aim to go beyond the traditional approach.
We would really love to hear your take on this.
I use a lot of devices. There are 13 of them within arm's reach at the moment. I want a working environment where my "personal computer" is virtual, and it runs on whatever device I happen to be messing with, and it gives me my own personal workspace with access to my own personal stuff, without concern for which specific device I happen to be touching at the moment. Every property of computing that falls short of that is just a gratuitous obstacle to getting my work done.
The first time I thought I was approaching that kind of computing was 32 years ago. I was working on an experimental device with an experimental operating system at Apple. It didn't work out.
The second time I got closer. I was working at NeXT. I could go into any office on the NeXT campus (or into my home) and sit down to a NeXT machine and log into my personal workspace with access to all of my stuff configured the way I preferred it.
But then NeXT merged with Apple and the OS turned into the current macOS, which doesn't offer the same kind of ubiquitous computing experience at all. If anything, simple things like its ability to share files with a mixed network seems to be going backward.
So I reiterate: maybe something like this toy could eventually turn into the computing workspace I actually want, and if it has to use the web stack to do it, so be it.
Okay, I can see it with this! This actually sounds a good bit like something I've been wanting to figure out setting up for myself, the struggle is that the data sync for ex. offline periods would be rough.