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philondrejack··on Ask HN: I want to develop apps for non profits, does this biz model work?
You'd be setting yourself up for a world of problems.

1.You wouldn't recoup your time investment on each app for at least 2 years.

2.The upkeep with each of those apps during that time would eat up significant portions of your time.

3. If an app did go down for whatever reason the firm could choose to cancel your arrangement. If that happened in the first 12 months you'd really be sunk because you have no one else you can sell that app to.

philondrejack··on Ask HN: I want to develop apps for non profits, does this biz model work?
Without a one-off fee upfront?
philondrejack··on Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps
I've been writing a desktop application with Kivy for the past few months. It has pros and cons.

The biggest con I have found is that because it's geared mostly for mobile it doesn't natively support multiple windows. There are work around to this, including the way that I solved it here... https://medium.com/@PhilipAndrews/the-kivy-frontier-multiple....

But aside from that it's so easy to get a reasonably good looking application up and running.

Would I recommend it for cross-platform app development? I can't say with confidence.

For quick roll-out or prototyping? Yes, definitely.

I really hope this community grows over time. The people working on the framework have been very responsive when I've had questions.