Show HN: Cargo – A minimal browser with almost no UI. Contributors wanted!

by tobihrbr • 8 years ago

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niko001• 8 years ago

Great work, I like it!

When taking on new contributors, you'll need to be headstrong with regard to which features you see as superfluous. You'll get a lot of feedback like "Whaat, no X? A browser has to have X!" and you'll end up with a Chrome-like UI if you give in to everyone's demands. For me, that would be the address bar, because I like to make sure I'm on the right page (rather than a phishing clone) when entering account credentials, but you probably have a good reason for excluding it and need to stand your ground :).

One bit of feedback: You should provide binaries as early as possible so that people can easily try it out and become excited about the project.

Good luck!

tobihrbr3• 8 years ago

Thanks for great feedback!

When designing the address bar I actually have thought about phishing - thanks for reminding me.

ameesdotme• 8 years ago

Reminds me of the Min-browser. It has a similar goal and is also built with Electron. Perhaps there's some useful stuff for you!

https://github.com/minbrowser/min

tobihrbr3• 8 years ago

Min actually inspired me to write cargo, because even min ships some features that I did not find myself using.

ateesdalejr• 8 years ago

Is the OP aware that cargo is also the name for quite a few other things? For one the Rust package manager is named cargo.

gmemstr• 8 years ago

I did a double take when I initially read the name, thinking it was a minimal browser _for_ Cargo packages.

tobihrbr3• 8 years ago

I did realize that, but since cargo is a normal English word I did not bother.

Show HN: Cargo – A minimal browser with almost no UI. Contributors wanted!

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