Nice idea but probably way ahead of its time, native app still rules if you want top experience for the foreseeable future
Need to start somewhere :-P and I think you'll be surprised looking back in a few years from now.
Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
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#102This is great, hopefully it takes off!
One piece of feedback is that it doesn't restore the scroll position when going from list page -> detail and then pressing back. That breaks browsing scenarios where you're looking at the details of apps as you scroll down. In general PWAs often get this wrong. I wish more of them were testing back navigation.
Re: Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finally developers can be under the mercy of some random dude who owns the store.app domain and charges for instead, joy!
I see your point, but are they under this site mercy? This site is like a directory rather than a policy maker like app stores, it wont take % of any subscription for starter plus all the pros of lower development costs and what not. Say this site suddenly decided to remove your app? So what, your users can still go to your site and have the PWA, now if Apple decided to do the same to your app, good luck getting anyo…
This ^^^
Re: Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
#104I am on phone so it may be different for desktop but the button to show only installable apps can be improved to make it clear when it is pressed and when it's not. I don't just want installable apps, I want installable apps to be offline or at least offline first too with optional login. I won't even consider it installable if it needs Internet to be of any use. Please add a way to filter these too. Great domain and…
Great feedback - thank you! :-)
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#105Wow what did you pay for store.app? That was either clever & lucky or very expensive, surely?
I pre ordered it before .app was available as a TLD and bought it on day one of availability. I've wanted to build this for a looooooong time :-)
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's correct, at the moment you can only add an app that you can claim ownership of (vis dns). The current list was manually added by us + by devs who have listed their apps on our site, but we'll be rolling out a more scalable solution soon, along with some better curation. I think that's a good idea to allow users to recommend listings - we'll look into adding that soon. Would love for you to create an account so…
maybe a "suggestion box" method for people that know of good sites so that you might contact the dev directly about being listed?
I like it! Ping me at support@store.app if you want to stay tuned and provide feedback on this feature after launch.
Re: Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
#107This is great, hopefully it takes off! One piece of feedback is that it doesn't restore the scroll position when going from list page -> detail and then pressing back. That breaks browsing scenarios where you're looking at the details of apps as you scroll down. In general PWAs often get this wrong. I wish more of them were testing back navigation.
Thank you for the kind words! And your feedback has been noted with our team, keep it coming! :-)
Re: Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
#108Nice idea but probably way ahead of its time, native app still rules if you want top experience for the foreseeable future
/me looks sideways at the Slack, Signal, Teams, and VSCode "native app" windows I have open here.
It'd be nice to not have 5 complete instances of Chrome using up all my compute.
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#109Any advice for PWA developers who are trying to make use of possibly attached hardware? I'm looking to build a POS app that needs to connect to a receipt printer and scanner, but having trouble finding support for the printer bit. Trying to avoid any pop-up dialogue that requires user confirmation.
.pdfp extension
adobe acrobat configured to auto print pdfp extension
I don't think there is any free/open option to scan from scanner.
The other option is to use puppeteer to print directly.
Let me know, if you figure it out.
Re: Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
#110I like the idea and execution. Is good spread the PWA feature of the web to battle the duopoly of native app stores, even if PWA has their disadvantages.
Feedback: I'm browsing the site on Firefox desktop, sadly it doesn't support install PWA yet. You may want to add some banner for Firefox users alerting about that.