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Easy and fast access to web applications
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Firework - Easy and fast access to web applications

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When you work with web apps they mix with other sites, losing you time and distracting you. Firework turns web apps into desktop apps.

⏱ These web apps launch and are ready to use immediately

📌 You can pin them to Taskbar or Dock

👌🏻 Switch between them as you usually do with desktop apps

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Alex Shvalev
Cool app. Congrats! 👍 I like its simplicity and clean UI. I think it would be nice to have more apps available by default (Google Docs, Gmail, etc.). It would also be cool to have the ability to search apps on the internet (you can use your Startpack base, for example). I tried to add a web app manually, and it works great! But I didn't find the way to pin the app to the dock on MacOS. It would be nice just to drag and drop the icon. Will you implement it later?
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@alex_shvalev Thank you for your positive feedback! Yes, we are going to use the catalog of suggested applications later. This is great idea. Pining to Dock is the most popular issue of last hours. :( Sorry, this is our known UX bug. To pin a web application to Dock you need to add it with separated profile. Then you can use "Move to Launcher" context menu. Web application will convert to macOS application, and it will be possible to add it to Dock.
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@alex_shvalev And sure we will fix it during one or two weeks.
Alex Shvalev
@afedorovn Awesome! Thanks!
Dominik Schneider
@alex_shvalev @afedorovn any news on resolving this bug? I just downloaded fireworks and the bug is a bit of show stopper
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
Hi @dschneiderch. Which bug? Can you explain?
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! I’m Alexey, CEO & founder at Startpack. And now we’re very happy to present Firework. It’s a desktop app for Windows and macOS that simplifies the work with your favorite online services. Think of it as a productive workspace for all your web tools. Firework is still free for everyone. Each of you can try a new user experience. We’ll be glad to hear your feedback and questions about our app. Share with us what you like more and what needs to be improved. P. S. Many thanks to @arunsathiya Alexey, CEO & founder, Startpack
Anthony Da Mota
That's great, but what are the benefits from Station? (https://www.producthunt.com/post...)
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@akdm_ We are better because: • Each web applications works in separate window. Like a desktop native application how you get used to. Use hotkeys according to your UX. • You can add any website and any web application. No limited range. Each person is unique and uses his unique set of web applications. • We consciously do not make a notification so as not to distract you from work. Work proactively. • Firework have accelerating mechanism for immediate launch of web applications. Your web application are ready to use at once after clicking.
Jim Zhou
Hey, this is cool and if it can reduce memory usage across my tab-catastrophe it'd be really great, but maybe for someone like me who may need a tad more handholding there could be some docs to explain some of the features? Like can I save different profiles across different computers on the same user account? Like if I want to keep Whatsapp on my PC only, Wechat on my Mac, but I need my gmail open on both, can I do it in the same account? And does the account info get saved across machines? Just preferences? Are there any keyboard shortcuts? Just curious, and also the "Speed up apps" tooltip doesn't show up on my Mac for some reason, and it'd be cool to have some sort of easy to find overview of all the nooks and crannies even if the UI is very clean. But yeah, the minimal UI is very cool and it's pretty fast on my ancient Macbook Air which is definitely a good sign. Also, I think the github link here is wrong?
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@jim_zhou > if it can reduce memory usage across my tab-catastrophe it'd be really great Web application in Firework uses the same memory volume as Chrome Browser. Our features are UX and fast launching of web applications. > Like can I save different profiles across different computers on the same user account? You can login on your each computers. But only links will be synchronized. Firework does not upload any profile data. > Like if I want to keep Whatsapp on my PC only, Wechat on my Mac, but I need my gmail open on both, can I do it in the same account? It is very rare case. :) You can add all web applications and tune your Fireworks via Speedup Apps setting. And does the account info get saved across machines? Just preferences? > No. Maybe later, if many users will ask this feature. >Are there any keyboard shortcuts? We strive to ensure that web application windows work with system hotkeys, and content inside of web applications worked on standard browser hotkeys. If something works differently, please let us know. > Just curious, and also the "Speed up apps" tooltip doesn't show up on my Mac for some reason We know about this but we can't affect it because this is macOS side. We are going to implement this tooltip on NW.js side. It should be better. >But yeah, the minimal UI is very cool and it's pretty fast on my ancient Macbook Air which is definitely a good sign. Thank you! > Also, I think the github link here is wrong? Yes, thank you. We will ask our @arunsathiya to fix it. Thank you for you questions! I hope you will like Firework. :)
Jim Zhou
@afedorovn Thanks for getting back so quickly with the responses. After fiddling around with it a bit on my Windows machine I found that by tying a locally hosted password manager this is actually an amazingly quick way to access dockerized webapps on the fly, really loving the not-waiting-for-Chrome-to-load-up part!
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@jim_zhou It s great that you liked Firework. We tried our best!
Arun
Hunter
I have been using @startpack_ru's Firework for a week now. I really love the idea of how they enable users to replace web apps with desktop apps for productivity. It's available on Windows and Mac, go check it out! Great stuff, @realrus, @jenua_dolganov, @nailgaraev and @afedorovn!
Anastasia Popova
The idea seems really interesting. I'll give it a try. Good luck you guys!
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@anastasia_vereschagina Thanks a lot Anastasia!
Chyngys Barynov
Great app. We are using it for our Worksection.com
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@chyngys Thanks!
Ryan Abrams
Hey @afedorovn - Getting a warning from McAfee antivirus when downloading the Windows app. Any insight there?
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@ryabrams Inside nothing. :) Three antiviruses have made warnings, I think because the application and its signature are new. All warnings were false. We report such cases to antivirus developers, they all add us to white list. Can you attach a screenshot of the warning and tell me version of McAfee? You can use http://feedback.firework.cloud/ for this report. Thank you! And enjoy Firework. :)
Ryan Abrams
Fraser Smith
Why is Firework better than, say, fluid.app or nativefier? Both of those have been around for a while and seem to do the same thing.
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@frassmith You right. These tools are similar in spirit and we know about them. Firework is a something such Google App Launcher (died), but without limitation of Google ecosystem. It is more comfortable. Other uniq features of Firework: • Main: Speeding up of web applications. They launch and are ready to use immediately. Scenario "click and wait uploading to work" turns to "click and work". • You can use common browser profile to all applications, or create web applications with separated profile. Last is convenient if you want to use one service under a few different accounts. • You can use web apps insight Firework or create native application with appearing on Launchpad and pinning to Dock. • Simple and beautiful. 😊
Fraser Smith
@afedorovn Sounds like a bunch of good reasons to give it a try. :-)
Alexey Fedorov
Maker
@frassmith Yeah! :) Try Firework. If you get any issues please tell me and we resolve it fast.
Alex Moonsera

Using it for music, Google Translate, and recently started using web version of Skype through Firework (because desktop version started munching on CPU and RAM all of a sudden).

Updates keep coming, they really listen to user requests. App is stable now, im satisfied with it.

Pros:

Lightweight, easy to use. Developers listen to feedback.

Cons:

A room for improvement with pages kept rendered at all time (Settings - Speedup of Apps).

Alexey Fedorov
Maker
Thank you for you review. Let me know if something be wrong, we will be happy to help you.
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