as part of my motivation to start learning how to use electron i’ve been digging around their website to see what is possible with the platform and i’ve found some great stuff — i’ve got seven of these planned and i’m hoping you will check out the quickfire soapbox made wistia videos i made, i’ve embedded episode five below. ..

EPISODE FIVE

links to the sites discussed

https://github.com/MedZed/Electron-Youtube-to-Mp3-Converter - simples!
https://github.com/vitorgalvao/appear.in - perfect for lifestreams (tut soon)
https://github.com/MSandeep96/SoundKeys - soundcloud wrapped
https://getcaption.co - find the right subtitles, easy!
https://short.cm - shorten links using you’re own domain!

what is electron and what is ‘electron on steemit?’

it’s a cool platform that allows someone (hopefully) non coder like me to hack together something (and get some help) to build our some applications that have been floating around my brain for far too long and need to come to life. i’m also sharing my journeys with the platform alongside these quick fire shows highlighting some tools that have been built with the platform. mainly to inspire me to keep going when things look really complicated but also so you can discover some neat tools! :)

pulled more and more to a fixed gui as a starting place mvp moving onto white label and custom later

i use the streamlink twitch gui pretty much everyday, it was one of the free programs that made me want to get restarted on my own transmedia portal style application, i think i’m trying to go bigger than i know what electron can do so i’d be better building out a basic viewer first with a handful of modules and then build it up from there.

i think it’s going to be a lot of work to maintain each of the modules so i might outsource on steemit for developers to help out and build out modules and keep them up to date when it comes to authentication and such like. i can’t see myself keep on top of all of that myself.

i’m in two minds about what route to take this right now - part of me wants to be open source and hope that by opening it up people will get involved and add in code and want to work on it, adding modules to the layout and their own concepts and ideas (hoping that i can re-use some of the codebases on my own modules) or the other way, go open source on part of it and keep part of it so i can white label it to fund development. i just don’t know really, i think i have to expect this is my own personal passion project and do it for the love and build something native on top of it when or if i can sustain myself.

if you enjoyed this episode and links to the free app downloads do check out episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and don’t forget to upvote and resteem to spread some love.