I have worked professionally for a company that made desktop apps for film production (VFX), and also internally for studios in their R&D departments and those were also almost entirely desktop based.
Outside of professional work, I’ve jumped right back in to Ham radio over the Corona times, there are lots of desktop applications in use there (DSP mainly) but usability and support for hardware (both devices, and platforms) is hit and miss and I have a few ideas for making my own versions as side projects. Several of these are paid - so do you have any hobbies or niche domains you’re knowledgeable about that you could explore?
It is interesting that there are many ham apps that are single person developed and closed source, but free to download. It's weird how open source is not ubiquitous in that hobby. This leaves lots off ageing, quirky software out there.
I'm not sure how related it is, but the average age of people involved in ham is pretty old. I went to a few meetups near me and the average person there was at least 60 years old. So it might be that these apps are made by an older generation with different norms around open source. Could just be an EE vs CS thing too, since open source is less common the EE world.
Kinda have to be desktop based if your working with VFX levels of change the data - the storage solutions those types of places need to invest in are insane!
Outside of professional work, I’ve jumped right back in to Ham radio over the Corona times, there are lots of desktop applications in use there (DSP mainly) but usability and support for hardware (both devices, and platforms) is hit and miss and I have a few ideas for making my own versions as side projects. Several of these are paid - so do you have any hobbies or niche domains you’re knowledgeable about that you could explore?