kayone/apps

Electron Apps is a curated directory of desktop applications built with Electron, a tool that lets developers create desktop apps using web technologies. Think of it as a catalog or app store of sorts, the kind you'd browse at electron.atom.io/apps to discover desktop software like Slack, VS Code, or Hyper. The way it works is a mix of manual and automated effort. A person who has built an Electron app submits a small folder containing an icon and a short file with basic info: the app's name, description, website, repository link, and category. That's all the human needs to do. After the submission is reviewed and merged, an automated bot takes over and fills in the rest. The bot pulls the submission date from the project's history, generates resized versions of the app icon, and extracts a color palette from the icon so the app can be displayed nicely on different background colors. Then it publishes everything automatically. This is mostly useful for the Electron team and community maintainers who want to showcase Electron apps in a polished, consistent way without doing repetitive busywork. If you're a developer who built an Electron app and want it listed on the official Electron site, this is the pipeline your submission goes through. The project's value is really in the automation: instead of humans manually resizing images and picking colors that look good on light and dark backgrounds, the bot handles all of that. The design reflects a sensible tradeoff: keep the human contribution minimal and let software do the tedious parts. The bot can also be extended to collect additional data like download counts or star counts from GitHub, though the README notes these as future ideas rather than current features.