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Hey HackerNews readers,

We're super excited to introduce Web2Desk Business.

Now Businesses and Startups can easily convert existing WebApps into Desktop apps that are compatible with Mac, Linux and Windows. And the best part is you only need to optimise your WebApp just for Chromium.

Some use cases: 🧰 Productivity Tools SaaS products 🧳 Enterprise Solutions ERPs and Softwares

8 months ago, we launched Web2Desk (https://appmaker.xyz/web2desk/). Started out as Weekend project, Web2Desk got us featured on LifeHacker, Windows Club, Asana Training and many out there. Our users have created over 25,000 desktop apps till today and continue to grow daily.

We found many of our users were startups and entrepreneurs creating Desktop apps for their products, of which most often required installer, updates and support from our end. Web2Desk being a free product had its own limitations.

Thus Web2Desk for Business was born. Now businesses can look no further to create Desktop Apps along with Installers for their Webapps that’s supported on Mac, Linux and Windows.

So, the main point is to make enterprise users install chromium before they can use your enterprise dashboard ? I mean, it's a bit user hostile compared to creating cross browser compatible web app, but i can see the appeal for a startup on a tight budget. I'm surprised you're not bundling an android and ios wrapper at the same time.

Thanks for your feedback. We seen lot of startup leveraging chromium desktop apps, which reduces additional work/bug for supporting multiple browsers. Additionally some users prefer desktop apps over webapp which is a click away. For example we have over 3000+ apps created for asana alone with our free tool [https://appmaker.xyz/web2desk/].

We are offering webapp to android from here https://appmaker.xyz/webapp

Does this just wrap your website in Electron?

Yea, It wraps website in electron.

So why charge for it if it's just reusing an open-source tool?

We're not charging for the service we are providing not for electron. Here is the free version we are providing without installer and updates [https://appmaker.xyz/web2desk/]. Anyone can use electron and build a desktop app for their webapp. They'll have to make installer and manage updates by them self. What we are doing is we'll manage all of those for a monthly price. Technically we're are not billing for electron, We are billing for the service we provide

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