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We're not looking for partnerships right now, but message me and I'm happy to chat about visual programming. Max/MSP is the OG (though we of course are bullish on macros vs. flowcharts).

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Yeah, I'm not sure if "partnerships" is what my project would be looking for either. I'm honestly curious on the purely conceptual level of how you think the corporate world might approach the concept of "very stateful" clients. FWIW, most of my interest is in enabling DIY/hobbyist and academic research use cases that would in fact want as much client-side statefulness as possible.

I guess I don't really understand the idea of macros extremely well. In your system, is it basically a function that's dynamically generated from the interface that is bound to a context-sensitive keyboard shortcut?

Mostly, yea. It's generated from the sequence of actions the user takes in the UI, with a little bit of inference so we can detect, for example, that a user actually is trying to update the first row in a filtered table, rather than a specific row with a specific ID.

And they can be triggered in lots of different ways (buttons, forms, events), not just keyboard shortcuts.

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