I made an App Store

Why

I love checking out new stuff, apps, apis, websites and such. And my obsession for trying out new stuff found me continuously visiting https://electronjs.org/apps. Its a website that allows people to browse apps made with electron. Developers add their apps by making a pull request to electronjs apps repo on Github. Every week there's always a new app added.

After visiting the website hundreds of times I started thinking why it wasn't an app store. I mean the general layout of it looks like an app store. At that time I was learning about reverse engineering closed apis and I thought it would be a fun project to build a desktop client for the website. On checking I saw that the api requests send back html which was not a problem as I had had some experience with parsing html from a previous project of mine FLB Podcasts. So I knew how to build it but I didn't really have time to do it. But last week I decided to take a break from building FLB Music and build it.

Where can I find it

I just pushed the alpha build yesterday so its only available here in the releases.

Features

• Browse Apps from 10+ Categories
• Search for apps by keyword and app name
• Download .exe , .appimage ,.dmg and other file formats
• Automatic Install for .exe files (.appimage soon, see roadmap)
• Loads the app website if the ReadMe is absent for the app page

Screenshots

Some screenshots...

Roadmap

• Install apps without spawning the installer modal
• Support installation of Appimages
• Create a CLI that has the same functionalty
• Encourage a Common ReadMe format from the app developers to have the app pages look more seeamless
• Support for Youtube preview videos shown on the website