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Alfred Reinold Baudisch
Personal blog · alfredbaudisch.com/blogprogramminggames
Alfred Reinold Baudisch's personal blog at alfredbaudisch.com covers programming and games. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Standalone Tools and Applications Made with Godot GUI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover using the Godot game engine for non-game work, such as cross-platform desktop apps, GUIs and standalone tools. Commenters cite them as examples and do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer and DBA. 30+ years of experience, Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Godot. 3D Artist (Blender). Hyper-learner. Copenhagen, DK.
Most-linked posts?
- Standalone Tools and Applications Made with Godot GUI3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-20
What Hacker News says?
Completely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that Godot is fantastic as a UI builder, and I think a lot of people are slowly realizing it. Many professional applications have been built with Godot[0] , and I also want to give a shoutout to Lorien[1] which is my favorite whiteboard application…
Comment linking /blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standalone-applications-made-with-godot-gui-softwares-tools/
on “Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine”Submitted Standalone Tools and Applications Made with Godot GUI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionShort answer: Yes! Long answer: I recommend Godot for rapid prototyping and creating desktop applications, but not necessarily for web app development. The biggest blocker is that Godot 4's export size is quite big compared to web standards, roughly 35MB uncompressed and 7.5MB compressed. The web version of GodotOS is 7.8MB, which may be too big for professional use. Godot is fantastic for making quick prototypes th…
Comment linking /blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standalone-applications-made-with-godot-gui-softwares-tools/
on “Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine”You may be surprised to know that the open source Godot game engine has also been adopted by some developers as a GUI toolkit (See Standalone Tools and Applications Made with Godot GUI - https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal... ).
Comment linking /blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standalone-applications-made-with-godot-gui-softwares-tools/
on “New Renderers for GTK”