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New comment by ikdiendoehdj in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

ikdiendoehdj — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:31:54 +0000

Of all the things to judge this on, you chose the most ridiculous one. Why shouldn’t a project like this exist just because there are “bigger” alternatives out there?

If youre gonna shut this one down, at the very least do it for the right reasons such as the fact that this is a webwrapper—absolutely disgusting, either go native or don’t bother shoving your webpage into a browser-container and calling it what it is not (an app).

New comment by ikdiendoehdj in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

ikdiendoehdj — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:28:45 +0000

Personally, I don’t really care which flavour of webwrapper this is. If it ain’t native, I ain’t bothering. Web pages belong in the browser, not in a browser-container pretending to be something it is not—an actual app.

New comment by ikdiendoehdj in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

ikdiendoehdj — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:26:35 +0000

Precisely. It would be awesome if it were an ACTUAL application.

I don’t care if it’s Tauri, Electron or whatever’s the new flavour of the same old lazy ass webwrapper technology.

A web app is not an actual application. Besides, I already have a browser, I don’t need another one just to open a single page so it can pretend to be an app while adhering to absolutely ZERO platform behaviour patterns.

Either go it native, or don’t even bother. If it can be run in a webwrapper, it can be run my ACTUAL a browser.

FUCK WEB APPS.