I’ve always wondered why active-but-silent didn’t count. If you bother to login, you’re active to me.

To me it is MAU that is more interesting. And this doesn’t stabilise if people stop using it.

On the other hand, the Kickstarter campaign should be an interesting push. It should improve retention.

I’ve been using path 3 and it was fine for me. I even adapted the docker-pyinstaller to also compile Mac-native binaries.

The thing is that in your case the users would still need to run front-end and back-end. Unless you want to implement some browser-starting logic (which is a pain to do multiplatform), this will be up to them ans that’s one click too many to start.

As far as I can tell you have such a problem with path 1 as well.

I will, thanks!