Snapshot from website Story Many cryptocurrency traders and hodlers check out the prices regularly because they know a day in this Wild West means a full month in the traditional investment space. hodlers I personally fell in love with the tech behind cryptocurrencies when I read the whitepapers a couple of months ago. I invested in what I considered it had intrinsic value and, naturally, now I want to keep track of my money. CoinMarketCap is a great tool for that, but there’s a problem. CoinMarketCap Being a developer who also suffers of tabmania on Chrome, it’s almost impossible to properly keep in touch with my cryptos. Just take a look. It takes ages to look for the right tab. developer This is a decent number of tabs, usually there are many more That’s why I decided to kick off a simple but working desktop client for CoinMarketCap, as on a few searches on Google I only found poor, undocumented attempts. desktop client attempts Incentive Simple enough, at the core of the app there is a webview which wraps the official website. At the moment, there are 4 advantages of using the desktop version: Running in its own window, it won’t get mixed up with your normal browsing
Has its own special icon in the dock/ task bar/ alt+tab list/ cmd+tab list/ start menu
You can set it to launch on startup
When you have to quit the web browser because something made it go nuts and it started to use 1,000% CPU and 10 GB RAM, the client will continue to run (and the same goes for your ordinary browsing if it’s the client that’s causing the problem) Running in its own window, it won’t get mixed up with your normal browsing Has its own special icon in the dock/ task bar/ alt+tab list/ cmd+tab list/ start menu You can set it to launch on startup When you have to quit the web browser because something made it go nuts and it started to use 1,000% CPU and 10 GB RAM, the client will continue to run (and the same goes for your ordinary browsing if it’s the client that’s causing the problem) Also, there are automatic updates, which is really important due to the fact there are some really cool features coming soon. Roadmap 🚀 Refresh button
Automatic refresh
Ability to set notifications when a specific price is hit
Develop the same app for other coin tracking websites, such as CoinGecko Refresh button Automatic refresh Ability to set notifications when a specific price is hit Develop the same app for other coin tracking websites, such as CoinGecko Contribute The source code is, of course, open source and anyone can contribute. As I will be constrained by time, I encourage you to try and play with the project. PaulRBerg/CoinMarketCap-Desktop_CoinMarketCap-Desktop — A simple desktop wrapper for CoinMarketCap_github.com PaulRBerg/CoinMarketCap-Desktop PaulRBerg/CoinMarketCap-Desktop _CoinMarketCap-Desktop — A simple desktop wrapper for CoinMarketCap_github.com Build instructions are in the bottom of the README file. For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue or get in touch with me on Gitter or Twitter @PaulRBerg. submit an issue Gitter @PaulRBerg Download Below you can find download links for your favourite OS: Windows (32 and 64 bits, Windows 7 and later)
Mac OSX (64 bits, Minimum 10.9)
Linux (Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8) Windows (32 and 64 bits, Windows 7 and later) Windows Mac OSX (64 bits, Minimum 10.9) Mac OSX Linux (Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 21, Debian 8) Linux CoinMarketCap Desktop_A desktop wrapper for the official CoinMarketCap._coinmarketcapdesktop.com CoinMarketCap Desktop CoinMarketCap Desktop _A desktop wrapper for the official CoinMarketCap._coinmarketcapdesktop.com Support If you thing the app has true intrinsic value and it would help others, please consider sharing this article. Donations welcome. I will return your act of kindness tenfold by further developing tools and projects for the community. tools Bitcoin: 38fyAV4dReCog38JRA9UaoPfeh9RqrmhHQ
Ethereum: 0x7deb85db0D84CFef5a5b9BDeb868Ac4cF269538d
Litecoin: LQZ9LqqEiLjMK1DrTCdDKoRndVfpxF74Rt Bitcoin: 38fyAV4dReCog38JRA9UaoPfeh9RqrmhHQ Bitcoin Ethereum: 0x7deb85db0D84CFef5a5b9BDeb868Ac4cF269538d Litecoin: LQZ9LqqEiLjMK1DrTCdDKoRndVfpxF74Rt Thank you for reading. Here are some cookies for you! Looks delicious If you enjoyed this article, would you mind to clap it or share it? It’d be greatly appreciated ✌️ If you enjoyed this article, would you mind to clap it or share it? It’d be greatly appreciated ✌️ If you enjoyed this article, would you mind to clap it or share it? It’d be greatly appreciated ✌️ Find me on Twitter or Keybase if you want to chat. Twitter Twitter Keybase Keybase

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