Show HN: Toothless – containerized desktop apps launched from the browser(toothless.rocks)

21 pointsby wwwtyrovor 11 Jahren11 comments

Show HN: Toothless – containerized desktop apps launched from the browser

http://toothless.rocks

3 comments

apivor 11 Jahren

This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much:

- Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math.

- Beta testing to select groups of beta users

- GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)

wwwtyrovor 11 Jahren

Great points, thanks for the counsel!

apivor 11 Jahren

The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.

CmonDevvor 11 Jahren

- not having to deal with HTML quirks;

- not having to deal with CSS quirks;

- not having to deal with JS quirks;

fiatjafvor 11 Jahren

How?

wwwtyrovor 11 Jahren

In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.

brockrockmanvor 11 Jahren

so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?

dominotwvor 11 Jahren

is .rocks the new .io ?

indium21vor 11 Jahren

.rocks doesn't really sound that great. To say "look, I rock!" is a bit .. I don't know.

(that said, not to be OT, this app looks interesting though)

CmonDevvor 11 Jahren

Anything goes in a war against squatters.

apivor 11 Jahren

I want .sucks