An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

This is cute as a proof of concept, but it needs severe performance improvements if it&#x27;s intended to replace Launchy.<p>Launchy sits there with 30mb ram used and no cpu used when not in use.<p>This launcher sits there with 170mb ram used, and 1% of a core in <i>constant</i> use.

Shouldn&#x27;t the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn&#x27;t know about the default functionality won&#x27;t miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?

As others have pointed out, there are stuff that should not be made with Electron and this is one type of app that just shouldn&#x27;t.<p>If it is platform specific anyways, why not do it in like C# or something that would make it lighter and faster?

Windows Key then type. No need to create a Chrome instance just to launch a program.

&gt;npm<p>&gt;JS<p>&gt;Electron<p>for a thing that should be hyper-light and -fast? With all due respect - no, thanks, but - no.

Native Windows-S does nearly the same thing, does it not?

Don&#x27;t want to be the naysayer here, but this project is yet another &#x27;I made smth already exisiting but with node.js and the original is still largely better&#x27;.<p>I think there are more interesting open source projects that should hit the HN frontpage. So let&#x27;s start with this one, that computes Wikipedia Pagerank on a single node in less than 30 minutes : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;computing-wikipedias-internal-pageranks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;computing-wikipedias-internal-pag...</a>

How does this match up to Launchy?

&gt; The name &quot;Hain&quot; is named by Hyunseop Lee, it means &quot;a Servant&quot; in Korean.<p>Also means &quot;traitor&quot; in Turkish, cool name.

Off topic, but does anyone know what program they used as a screen recorder in the README .gif?

Would be awesome if it was also working on OSX. Pity I can&#x27;t and don&#x27;t wat to program apple platform.

What happened to tinyapps? I propose a challenge to create app launcher that is 100KB or less.

i really love these launcher apps.<p>this one sort of illustrates the problem with developing windows apps:<p>- you either learn complicated c++ and windows api and have to write your own rendering framework for custom components<p>- or use C# and xaml and get terrible performance with systems with no gpu acceleration<p>- or use VB for terrible performance and CPU usage<p>- or use javascript and node for huge memory usage and slower rendering than c++ (VB has the same issues)