I think it's pretty cool, great job.<p>I just wanted to give a positive comment, specifically about the things that people are giving negative comments about. The website design isn't boring, and emphasizes that the app differentiator is that it's looking to be a better design and have things like "album art first".<p>Electron does have a small resource problem, but that doesn't stop plenty of people from downloading the desktop version of Slack, or other popular electron wrappers. There's a reason a lot of people put up with Electron, it fills a gap.<p>Whether you did this to try Electron or design, comments on HN can be very subjective and not representative of actual reception. I personally never thought album art was super important cause I grew up with Napster, but like "cover flow" was REALLY well received. Artistic design is especially highly opinionated.
<i>It is essentially like running Google Play Music in your Chrome browser, but as a native standalone app with some extra controls, nicer styles, and without having to use Flash.</i><p>So why not just deliver this as a plugin for Chrome that reskins Play with alternative stylesheets and so forth? At least then my OS can use COW to share memory across Chrome processes instead of requiring a dedicated WebKit instance just for Play.
Also see <a href="https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/</a>
Wouldn't call it minimalist -- hard a super hard time reading the following:<p>> the U N O F F I C I A L G O O G L E M U S I C P L A Y E R with M I N I M A L I S T S T Y L I N G S.<p>with all those icons and mixed fonts and the background image.<p>Is this just a skin for loop? I see that it's based on loop, and I can't seem to find any differences in functionality.