lighthouse

Was tested with bitcoin: https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse I'm sceptical about the use-case. Collecting money for the projects is so much about other things as well, not just the money collection phase - you need a services around it, it is not just the payment collection. That said, I think it would be quite useful for kickstarter to accept btc/eth.

JavaFX https://www.vinumeris.com/lighthouse (there's a promotional video). Note that to use it requires you have some bitcoins. WRT the development process, it worked pretty well. The 3rd-gen Java UI stack is much better than Swing and was a pleasure to work with. Much better than the web stack. The app is open source if you want to read the code: https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse I built the installers for each platform with the 'javapackager' tool that comes with JDK8+.

javapackager. It comes with JDK8+. It can make signed DMGs on MacOS, EXE/MSI packages on Windows, DEBs/RPMs/tarballs on Linux etc. They don't have any Java branding. Here's an example of how to use it: https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse/blob/lighthouse/mac-... The catch is you need the platform to make packages for the platform. It can't make Mac DMGs from Windows, for instance. I have a Mac laptop with Parallels so I can make packages for all three major platforms. To stay on the .NET topic, this is the closest the JVM world currently has to something like .NET Native, I guess, although of course, there is no native code involved .... it just looks that way to the end user. I guess when .NET matures as a cross platform solution they will need a similar tool, as other platforms don't have the runtime installed by default.