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Comment by pmkary | Hacker News Reader

Makes me so happy to see people like this exist. All good software, really all good software, is indie small ones made with love and care whose authors also lived a good life outside of the cubicle mess. (I know about the exaggeration, but really, 95% of what I love is indie software, you don't find that kind of creativity and love in any company)

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There are a lot of small companies / single devs working in very technical, pro-oriented, industries. They still thrive in the days of browsers and javascripts and what not, writing super optimised, super inovative, native code.

Like all the 'audio plugins' people that essentially write .so's that go into the big desktop audio workstations, doing anything and everything with sound, while also experimenting with various UI/UX paradigms, unrestricted by what's possible in the DOM/CSS, integrating hardware into it all etc. (I imagine similar in the video/rendering industry, but I'm not too familiar with that side)

I totally agree, and really love the music space. There's just so much pure creativity there.

it's true, you can always tell a product that is loved from a product that grew up without it.

i'd add as a caveat that your users probably will not be able to tell the difference and it will break your heart if you care about these things too much.

In my last job I built a cross platform thing with Flutter, and it was very early on the desktop thing, so I had to basically write the whole widget kit, from the ground up. Define what is a button and how should it work in desktop with mouse/keyboard and phone with touch. And it took around 2 years, once it was done they replaced it with a web version because hiring flutter devs was hard and expensive and no one cared :)

Spacemonger is this to a tee.

yeah - I'm sure Everything by voidtools is precisely that

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