In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
So this has gotten to the point for me where it is a big enough burning painpoint where I would pay for a service which provided passably fast versions of the web-based tools which I frequently have to use.<p>In my day-to-day as a startup founder I use these tools where the latency of every operation makes them considerably less productive for me (this is on a 2016 i5 16GB MBP):<p>- Hubspot<p>- Gmail (with Apollo, Boomerang Calendar, and HubSpot extensions)<p>- Intercom (probably the worst culprit)<p>- Notion (love the app - but it really seems 10x slower than a desktop text editor should be imo)<p>- Apollo<p>- LinkedIn<p>- GA<p>- Slack<p>The following tools I use (or have used) seem fast to me to the point where I&#x27;d choose them over others:<p>- Basecamp<p>- GitHub (especially vs. BitBucket)<p>- Amplitude<p>- my CLI - not being facetious, but using something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;go-jira&#x2F;jira" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;go-jira&#x2F;jira</a> over actual jira makes checking or creating an issue so quick that you don&#x27;t need to context switch from whatever else you were doing<p>I know it sounds spoiled, but when you&#x27;re spending 10+ hours a day in these tools, latency for every action _really_ adds up - and it also wears you down. You dread having to sign in to something you know is sluggish. Realistically I cannot use any of these tools with JS disabled, best option is basically to use a fresh Firefox (which you can&#x27;t for a lot of Gmail extensions) with uBlock. I tried using Station&#x2F;Stack but they seemed just as sluggish as using your browser.<p>It&#x27;s probably got a bunch of impossible technical hurdles, but I really want someone to build a tool which turns all of these into something like old.reddit.com or hacker news style experience, where things happen under 100ms. Maybe a stepping stone is a way to boot electron in Gecko&#x2F;Firefox (not sure what happened to positron).<p>The nice things about tools like Basecamp is that because loading a new page is so fucking fast, you can just move around different pages like you&#x27;d move around the different parts of one page on an SPA. Browsing to a new page seems to have this fixed cost in people&#x27;s minds, but realistically it&#x27;s often quicker than waiting for a super interactive component to pull in a bunch of data and render it. Their website is super fast, and I think their app is just a wrapper around the website, but is still super snappy. It&#x27;s exactly the experience I wish every tool I used had.<p>IMO there are different types of latency - I use some tools which aren&#x27;t &quot;fast&quot; for everything, but seem extremely quick and productive to use for some reason. For instance, IntelliJ&#x2F;PyCharm&#x2F;WebStorm is slow to boot - fine. But once you&#x27;re in it, it&#x27;s pretty quick to move around.<p>Can somebody please build something to solve this problem!