Show HN: Toothless – containerized desktop apps launched from the browser

by wwwtyro • 11 years ago

21 11 11 years ago

fiatjaf• 11 years ago

How?

wwwtyro2• 11 years ago

In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.

brockrockman• 11 years ago

so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?

dominotw• 11 years ago

is .rocks the new .io ?

api3• 11 years ago

I want .sucks

indium21• 11 years ago

.rocks doesn't really sound that great. To say "look, I rock!" is a bit .. I don't know.

(that said, not to be OT, this app looks interesting though)

CmonDev2• 11 years ago

Anything goes in a war against squatters.

api3• 11 years ago

This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much:

- Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math.

- Beta testing to select groups of beta users

- GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)

wwwtyro2• 11 years ago

Great points, thanks for the counsel!

api3• 11 years ago

The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.

CmonDev2• 11 years ago

- not having to deal with HTML quirks;

- not having to deal with CSS quirks;

- not having to deal with JS quirks;

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