Web2Desk - Turn your favorite websites into a desktop app in one click

Where have you been all my life?

Product Hunt web: 1.5MB

Product Hunt exe: 118MB

Just creates an Electron app.

No chrome extensions.

Pros:

Works

Cons:

Storage

Really easy and great website to use. Used this to make web-apps for my support software.

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

None

Tried it out and as a reviewer said, it just works... A couple of questions/thoughts: - I'd be curious which base browser you used. Nothing that has to be shared publicly on your site, but it'd be helpful so we're aware that it acts like a certain browser when debugging. I'm guessing a not quite up to date version of Chrome when we sent to a web page to detect. - Having some kind of hidden administrative function where you can change the URL would be helpful. As an example, we run our web app (and native apps that run inside a webview) in both dev instances and live. In the native app, we have an easter egg so we can switch back and forth between the dev URL and the live. - Any thoughts on how you'd handle push-like notifications that are integrated into the OS? As an example, pretty sure the Slack desktop app uses similar technology to yours, and they have push alerts (much like the Chrome ones) that appear in the task tray (and on the Mac in the notification tray). You get this functionality in there, and you're gold. Great job though. Love it!

This app does what it says in the tin. It wraps a website in a desktop app so that your browser doesn't overload with all the tabs open to run your productivity apps.

Pros:

Cool, Keep the Browser free from many tab open, full screen

Cons:

None that I can think at the moment

It's not gonna turn the web page into an app, it's a ridiculous claim.

Please, people of Earth, educate yourself a bit before aweing...

Pros:

None that I can think of

Cons:

Using a customized browser to access a single web page. Makes no sense.

Is this like Progressive WebApps?

This is great, and I'll be using it. Any ideas why rendering performance would be bad? Eg, animations being jerky, slowed framerate? Will performance be improved in future versions?

Pros:

Quick and easy to make an app

Cons:

Animations are a bit jerky in the native version of some apps

How is better than FluidApp?

According to the description they only support OSX, as in up to 2015’s El Capitan.