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Show HN: Build desktop apps with JavaScript and a native UI

https://www.tiptopjs.com
1•jblakely•5h ago
A couple years ago I started experimenting with embedding V8, spent a lot of time saying, "I wonder if I can add this...", and before I knew it I had small, but usable development system for cross platform applications.

The idea is similar to Electron, build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, but with a native UI.

More importantly, you don't need to install a bunch of prerequisites to use it. Download 1 file and run. No install, just copy the file wherever you want it. And the applications you build with it are the same, no giant bundle of files to distribute with your app.

It's definitely not finished. I currently only have an IDE for Windows, but you can still use it to create apps for both Windows and macOS. I have a prototype of an IDE for macOS but it's not complete. Also, the documentation is pretty sparse, sorry!

I'm still working on tweaking the UI for the created apps, the differences between macOS and Windows make it difficult for the UI to look exactly the same, but it's getting there.

Anyway, would love to hear if anyone finds it interesting and/or useful!

Withdrawal symptoms are common after stopping antidepressants

https://www.psypost.org/withdrawal-symptoms-are-common-after-stopping-antidepressants/
2•lentoutcry•7m ago•0 comments

Trump Signs Orders To Speed Nuclear Reactor Deployment

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/trump-nuclear-executive-order.html
2•atomic128•8m ago•0 comments

UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging

https://undo.io/
1•droideqa•10m ago•0 comments

Tiny Genetic Code Disruption Alters Brain Wiring and Behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-behavior-synapses-29125/
2•lentoutcry•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mini PBS – A minimal public bike status webapp

https://github.com/adrien-delhorme/mini-pbs
1•adrndlhrm•11m ago•0 comments

Contraband

https://www.asymco.com/2025/05/17/contrabrand/
1•carrotsalad•17m ago•0 comments

Gottlob Frege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege
1•vram22•17m ago•0 comments

Salesforce Is Back in Talks to Acquire Informatica

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-23/salesforce-is-said-back-in-talks-to-acquire-informatica
1•mfiguiere•18m ago•0 comments

Curiosity: The Hidden Superpower Behind Tech Success

https://tushardadlani.com/curiosity-the-hidden-superpower-behind-tech-success
1•tush726•23m ago•0 comments

A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16963
6•badmonster•23m ago•1 comments

Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-3d-printed-untraceable-ghost-guns/
1•Ozarkian•24m ago•0 comments

Freedom and Its Limits: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Black Republicanism

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/30/freedom-and-its-limits-edward-wilmot-blydens-black-republicanism/
2•Traces•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Advanced Chunking in JavaScript/TypeScript with Chonkie

3•snyy•28m ago•0 comments

Lidar Can Permanently Damage Your Phone's Camera

https://www.jalopnik.com/1866994/lidar-permanently-damage-phone-camera/
8•rntn•34m ago•3 comments

Speedata Publisher – a professional database Publishing system

https://github.com/speedata/publisher
2•Tomte•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone working on a ROS/ROS2 successor?

2•paulmist•34m ago•0 comments

GNU Emacs Configuration

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/dotemacs
2•Tomte•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to start selling my Restaurant AI automation software?

1•Nayak_S1991•34m ago•2 comments

Shine a spotlight on your open source project

https://github.blog/open-source/shine-a-spotlight-on-your-open-source-project/
1•belter•35m ago•0 comments

The Transwedge Product

https://terathon.com/blog/transwedge-product.html
3•ibobev•35m ago•0 comments

The Startup Dictionary of Received Ideas

https://www.thestartupdictionary.org/
1•tnolet•37m ago•0 comments

Using Claude 4 and the File API from a Microcontroller

https://bsky.app/profile/danielmangum.com/post/3lptl3x37q22z
1•hasheddan•40m ago•0 comments

US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/23/us-banana-giant-chiquita-fires-thousands-over-panama-strike
5•mooreds•42m ago•0 comments

NixOS 25.05 Released

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/
7•todsacerdoti•42m ago•0 comments

A lens on poverty and the environment: Sebastião Salgado is dead at age 81

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/23/a-lens-on-poverty-and-the-environment-sebastiao-salgado-is-dead-at-age-81
2•Qem•43m ago•1 comments

Chinese College Gives Harvard International Students 'Unconditional Offers'

https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-hkust-china-college-international-students-offer-2076257
7•doener•44m ago•1 comments

Avoiding becoming the lone dependency peg with load-bearing anime

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/
16•cratermoon•44m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built an AI food detection app that serves as Shazam for your meals

https://whatthefood.io
1•OdehAhwal•45m ago•1 comments

A Conversation with Dave Grossman

https://spillhistorie.no/2025/05/23/a-conversation-with-dave-grossman/
2•doener•46m ago•0 comments

Sam and Jony and Skepticism

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/sam-and-jony-and-skepticism/
3•danaris•47m ago•0 comments