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18 points laksmanv | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.214s | source

I'm curious if any HN'ers here have any fun mac os projects they've built or even have an income from? I feel like we hear a lot about saas and iphone apps, but not mac os apps as much. I have a mac os app idea, and I'm also wondering if anyone knows of a good book on building a mac os app business? Or perhaps a book on building an iphone app company would be sufficient and applicable to mac os?
1. jviotti ◴[] No.41882393[source]
Not building an app myself right now, but I worked a lot on the desktop app space, leading development at various companies and been thinking of writing a book on the topic (I'm an O'Reilly author in another space). I tend to blog on macOS stuff every now and then, like https://www.jviotti.com/2022/02/21/emitting-signposts-to-ins....

Quick questions for everybody here:

- How do you develop your apps right now, mainly cross-platform ones? QT? Would you enjoy a C++ cross-platform framework that binds directly (and well) to Cocoa?

- Are you using Electron? If so, would you appreciate premium modules for Electron that bring a lot more "native" Cocoa functionality instead of reinventing the wheel in JavaScript?

What would you wish a book on modern desktop app development would cover?