On: The Horror of Microsoft Teams

[userbinator]

It makes me want to spend an entire month's worth of weekends writing a native clone that no one will ever use.

If you ever do, I'd suggest doing the same with Slack might get far more attention, given that it has a publicly documented API as well as a few thirdparty clients already.

Also, why did this have to be developed using electron?

Probably because Web/JS developers are far more common and cheaper than native ones? Otherwise, even MS itself is saying "Win32 is the future":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883351

[chronomex → userbinator]

ripcord is exactly that

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

[userbinator → chronomex]

Not QuiTe --- that's a step up from a web app in a browser, but not "true" native (i.e. pure Win32 on Windows.)