Hi HN, I think I solved personal software.
I have dozens of personal apps. One queues my social posts, one scores Reddit threads for me, one is the email client for my domains, others solve small and big problems I face.
Every one of them is a freaking project! Dozens of files, a build, updates, some need a server, yada yada yada.
All that for an app with one user - me.
It annoyed me so much that I asked: Why do I need all of that?
Browsers open an HTML file with a double-click. No build, no server.
But a browser can't reach my laptop freely, and for a real app I need it to.
Why can't desktop apps work the same way?
So I built Apargon.
Your AI writes one .papp (Personal App ;D) file. That's the whole app! It declares what it needs, you double-click it, see a popup with the contract, approve it and voila, a working app.
Everything else: blocked, by the OS.
macOS and Linux for now. Windows sandboxing is the part I haven't cracked - if you know it, I'd love your help. Free and open source.
Try to break it.
I have dozens of personal apps. One queues my social posts, one scores Reddit threads for me, one is the email client for my domains, others solve small and big problems I face.
Every one of them is a freaking project! Dozens of files, a build, updates, some need a server, yada yada yada.
All that for an app with one user - me.
It annoyed me so much that I asked: Why do I need all of that? Browsers open an HTML file with a double-click. No build, no server. But a browser can't reach my laptop freely, and for a real app I need it to.
Why can't desktop apps work the same way?
So I built Apargon.
Your AI writes one .papp (Personal App ;D) file. That's the whole app! It declares what it needs, you double-click it, see a popup with the contract, approve it and voila, a working app.
Everything else: blocked, by the OS.
macOS and Linux for now. Windows sandboxing is the part I haven't cracked - if you know it, I'd love your help. Free and open source.
Try to break it.