Desktop

Products and tools that run on desktop computers.

This hub collects the blocks for desktop software: the shells that package web tech into native apps, the frameworks for building native interfaces, and the packaging, auto-update and signing infrastructure that desktop distribution requires.

Why it matters to an indie builder: desktop is the quiet premium market. Users pay for native tools, offline capability and deep OS integration that web apps approximate poorly, and the modern shells, Electron for ecosystem, Tauri for size, NativePHP for the Laravel crowd, mean a web skill set ships desktop software with a build step rather than a rewrite.

A realistic pattern: a product client built on Tauri with a web frontend, auto-update via signed releases, OS-native menus and notifications, and a CI pipeline producing macOS, Windows and Linux builds from one commit.

Trade-offs: every web-on-desktop stack pays in memory or binary size, code signing costs money per platform, and each OS adds distribution rules. Compare with the platform-specific hubs here when targeting one system deeply, and with the browser as the platform when installation is the enemy.