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Life & fun · January 12, 2023

Desktop app distribution made easy

Escape the browser with tools that make desktop development easy.

Desktop app distribution made easy launched on January 12, 2023 with 9 votes, #1,438 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience and security. Conveyor was the perfect solution for our needs of distributing self-updating desktop apps. The support we received was prompt and reliable. Conveyor is the first packaging and signing solution that we actually found pleasant to use! We use it for many robotics applications, from simple CLI tools to complex GUIs. I’ve been trying to launch this Electron app for ages, and your software made it blessedly easy. I'm pretty impressed with how easy the process has been. Had to learn a few new things, but not nearly as much as I would've had to learn to do it all myself. Really does feel like a…from hydraulic.software

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