ChatGPT on macOS isn't built with Electron, at least the last time I checked. Just checking the linked frameworks shows that it links against macOS AppKit and the Swift libraries.
From a user perspective can definitely tell too, it's a polished, fast desktop app and has all the UI details one would expect from a native app.
One can imagine that resolving this will require a separate model to construct a timeline/keyframe series from a text description then interpolate between them.
Fascinating times, either way this is allegedly being open–sourced, so I'm hopeful others will be able to build on top.
Such a wonderful read. Think of childhood or teenage years when you spent hours building things for the sheer joy of it, profit motive be damned. More of us could do with sabbaticals to explore projects like this as an adult. Build out in the open, perhaps it will work, maybe it won’t. But you’ll learn a vast amount, have fun along the way, and probably learn what you should be doing instead.
Bookmarked, because I know I’m going to have to re-read this.
Think the fairest model is one where you pay once for the app, updates are free for a set period of time, then you have to pay again to upgrade if you wish to. If not, the old version is yours indefinitely.
Well aware that the App Stores do not offer this option, but it is possible if you implement your own billing system on macOS or Windows.
Second this. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, billions of people are going to come online over the next five to ten years. If (according to the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/2-billion-people-worl...) there are really 2 billion people unbanked, we stand to see cryptocurrencies and cell phones lead to an explosion of people connected to the financial system.
Sure. A significant amount of people like having their entire inbox locally downloaded (and seemingly more common in the tech industry) but there's also a lot of people that keep it all in the cloud.
I would gladly support Inbox, but I can't currently link to a specific thread in Inbox, so clicking a notification would just dump you at the inbox of your email account.
Behind the scenes, it looks to me like Inbox is a new GUI on top of the same Gmail backend, so if the thread linking was fixed this certainly looks possible.
There is no use of IMAP, it's using the Gmail API. It does poll the Gmail API frequently which is currently the recommended method of checking for new email according to Google.
I know at some point they will switch to PubSubHubbub as the preferred way to get notifications.
My reasoning was that most people only have one email account and thus would be fine with the free version.
As to why in-app purchase, I wanted people to be able to use it first without payment. In-app purchase has been growing in popularity on the App Stores lately and I think this is why. I also feel it's cleaner not to have two separate versions on the App Store.
But thanks for the feedback, I guess you're right. It's misleading to call it free. I will amend the landing page to make it clearer.
Firstly, this is fantastic. Really beautiful work and you've reframed what I thought was possible with CSS animations.
The CSS is remarkably economical and I notice that you aren't using any javascript libraries other than jQuery.
Can you share how you keyframed and timed the animation work? Laying these out by hand must be an exercise in tedium? In particular I'm talking about scenes.css which is where the bulk of the animation happens (https://github.com/podrivo/thegoodman/blob/master/files/scen...).
From a user perspective can definitely tell too, it's a polished, fast desktop app and has all the UI details one would expect from a native app.