Show HN: BuildBy – find out how many Electron apps are on your Mac or Windows
BuildBy is a tool that helps users identify the technologies used to build desktop applications on macOS and Windows. It provides insights into whether apps are built with native technologies or cross-platform frameworks like Electron and Flutter. The tool also offers detailed information about app signatures and notarization statuses.
- ▪BuildBy inspects desktop applications and categorizes them by their underlying technology.
- ▪It allows users to perform single-app inspections or scan all installed applications at once.
- ▪The tool is available as a command-line interface and can be installed via npm.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 28 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ How to change the default apps on a Mac — Digital Trends
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/wavever/buildby |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 17:13:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T17:29:42.897Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T17:29:42.897Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | iMWmaTyL2WDL · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
buildby Detect what desktop apps are built with. 简体中文 · Install · Usage · Tech Stacks buildby inspects desktop applications on macOS and Windows, then tells you whether each app is built with native technologies (Swift, Objective-C, Win32) or a cross-platform framework such as Electron, Flutter, Tauri, Qt, JVM, CEF, NW.js, React Native, wxWidgets, Unity, or .NET. It also surfaces signature and notarization details for single-app inspection, including developer name, Team ID, signature status, Apple notarization on macOS, Authenticode status on Windows, and Hardened Runtime status. Highlights Fast file-system based detection with no admin privileges required. Single-app inspection, full installed-app scan, and per-stack filters.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.