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18 points laksmanv | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.202s | 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. themapper ◴[] No.41901985[source]
I've built https://uptimelog.app as a small side project to scratch my own itch. It's free for now, so I don't have much feedback on how to build a business around it yet. However, I do think MacOS development is definitely a niche in itself, which can be a good thing because you have a user base that needs software for a specific platform.

I initially used Go for the backend and web as the frontend, so it essentially works as a local web server serving a web page in the browser. However, I'm now rewriting it in Qt (C++) to make it easier to maintain and to make it into a native application instead of a local web app.