Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?

Post by goosejuice » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 1:51 AM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #111

goosejuice wrote: post #6

What's the alternative? Certainly multi platform native only makes sense at a certain scale. Your question might be too light on details to provide much advice.

If it's about making money or making a living, your best alternative is probably to make an app exclusively for the platform where most of your profitable customers are. You can expand to other platforms later if you get the scale.

Post by KingMob » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 10:36 AM UTC

scarface_74 wrote: post #67

KingMob wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You talk a lot about what customers want, but they want apps only because Apple makes PWAs so unpleasant. There are some tech limitations (games might be tougher), but most of what makes PWAs suck is Apple. In another timeline, Apple chose to double-down on PWAs instead of the App Store after the iphone 1, and PWAs are the majority of non-performance-sensitive smartphone applications.

Every single “write once run everywhere” technology has sucked compared to native apps. Developers complained when the first iPhone came out and when Steve Jobs called web apps a “sweet solution”. Even Gruber called the solution a “shit sandwich”. If it’s only Apple holding PWAs back, then why do most of the same companies write Android apps instead of just producing PWAs that work on PCs and Android devices?