Capsule

love this idea!

With the battle of AI versus human agency raging I have a prediction that local-first desktop apps are going to make a comeback. It's nice to see something like this make it…

could see this being handy for a little game with the save bundled in

Many big companies are starting now to test agentic coding to automate business processes. This could be a nice tool to distribute apps for workflows that aren't big enough to…

I love this idea! One of the fallouts from widespread AI adoption that I've seen: They're very good at creating visual artifacts, but if you ever have to provide data in those…

New way to deliver viruses just dropped! Great idea but it can be abused for sure.

Attackers / Malware Developers: "A document as a web app?, What could possibly go wrong?"

This seems ripe for an injection attack. Can it be inspected before running?

This is proprietary. Yuck

Personally, you lost me at `.capsule`. I assume this is your format? Now, what happenss when you are not around or I don't have access to you when it is needed most?

My take: If your app needs to update and preserve state (using SQLite or any other DB), it is probably not something you want to pass around as a bundled file. Or at least, it's…

if state is best shared, why keep it w/ the code? You're gonna end up having to build a complex state sync system to a central DB anyways...

Looks useful, but the Mac download shows "“Capsule” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image." and then you realize it could be ripe for malicious payloads…

“Capsule.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

It kinda reminds me of MS Access, which ended up being a pain in the butt for IT departments, but also covered a need within some department with limited resources. Really…

Is this open source ?

Do you plan to open source it? Seems like a proprietary app & spec.

I’ve been experimenting with Capsule and really like the concept. I confirmed that external REST APIs work from Capsule via fetch(). I’d like to use Capsule as a…

I've always wanted something like this! But I'd want to see some kind of clouds storage sync to actually use it for anything practical. Maybe it could include YJS, with agents…

I really like the idea. It's so easy to create small tools with AI now, but hard to install them as local apps or share them. But I'm missing a few relevant features: 1. syncing…

Love the UI. Simple and clean. Html instead of full app is nice idea. Make online sharing for collaboration edit, but yep need cloud storage.

I love this idea! One of the fallouts from widespread AI adoption that I've seen: They're very good at creating visual artifacts, but if you ever have to provide data in those…

I wish there was a way to see the underlying HTML/JS and schema of these container files. Maybe you can on the desktop app? But it would be cool to see what's happening under the…

This seems ripe for an injection attack. Can it be inspected before running?

Is the file still fairly readable as plain text when opened with any old text editor? Is this asking too much?

> but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere With the File System Access API, webpages nowadays can read and write local files just like desktop applications:…

You can get a cheap approximation of this with chromium browsers + Filesystem API and a PWA manifest for that native-ish feel. AI has reignited my interest in building based 100%…

For the curious, the note taking app Trilium has a "standalone" mode¹, built on top of OPFS² and sqlite OPFS persistence, such that your notes (~web pages here) are stored in…

I'm surprised to not see Pocketbase mentioned in this thread at all. https://pocketbase.io/docs/ "PocketBase is an open source backend consisting of embedded database (SQLite)…

This seems ripe for an injection attack. Can it be inspected before running?

Attackers / Malware Developers: "A document as a web app?, What could possibly go wrong?"