Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps?

[tjr]

Web applications seem to be all the rage right now, and rightfully so. Just curious to discuss the state of the art and state of utility of desktop applications.

[cperciva]

We had this discussion 52 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73112

[tjr → cperciva]

Sorry for the repost then, and thank you for the link!

[dhouston]

http://getdropbox.com

[hhm]

I am / was, for enterprise (advergaming for expositions and such). Now I'm getting interested by the computer vision world...

[dfranke]

I am, but it's for developers, not end-users.

[dougfort]

We just launched SpiderOak: http://www.spideroak.com

[terpua]

We are doing one as part of a desktop/web app.