This is sick! Congratulations on the launch!
Thank you!!! This means the world to us :-)
Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! It was pricey, but not as bad as it could've been. I pre-ordered it a month before .app became available as a TLD, and bought it on the first day of availability (May 2018!). I've been planning on building this for some time :-P Re carousel feedback - thank you! We've talked about this but have been prioritizing some other features ahead of it. That said, your feedback helps us prioritize higher. Keep the…
Just to 2nd it. I came to the comments first, but after visiting the site, it does feel unnatural. Also to pile on, having to multi-click the next button one at a time per app feels tedious. Seeing how you are at this stage though, color me very impressed. I've just never paid attention to PWAs, so seeing them available like this gave me a totally different (positive) consideration for them. I would love to see numbe…
Noted, and thank you!
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#43This is awesome, as PWAs get better I really REALLY hope they'll challenge the big app stores. So far no one I know outside of tech knows or cares that this is even possible, but I hope sites like this will gradually change that and also change people's perceptions of what has to be a "native" app.
I don't see any reason why in 10 years we should still be paying the 30% tax (+ the $100/year) just to get something with notifications and offline on the home screen. Sadly there's literally hundreds of billions on the table, so there's going to continue to be huge resistance.
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#44I love it, maybe finally developers will no longer be under the mercy of apple/google store! Probably the only thing PWA fails to do now that anything needs access to the hardware say wifi/Bluetooth scanner and such, and big games too, the rest of the apps, I don’t see why it needs to be installed from app/play store.
Thank you! That's our hope. The open web is making some major strides, so the next few years will certainly be interesting :-)
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#45I love it, maybe finally developers will no longer be under the mercy of apple/google store! Probably the only thing PWA fails to do now that anything needs access to the hardware say wifi/Bluetooth scanner and such, and big games too, the rest of the apps, I don’t see why it needs to be installed from app/play store.
Chrome offers bluetooth support, doesn’t it?
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#46This is awesome, as PWAs get better I really REALLY hope they'll challenge the big app stores. So far no one I know outside of tech knows or cares that this is even possible, but I hope sites like this will gradually change that and also change people's perceptions of what has to be a "native" app. I don't see any reason why in 10 years we should still be paying the 30% tax (+ the $100/year) just to get something wit…
When I install something from those stores, I feel like there is some level of vetting against malware, or at least the ability for the store to pull it if it becomes known-malicious after I installed it. 30% might be too much of a fee, but some payment for that service makes sense, I think.
Are PWAs somehow immune to this concern by virtue of running on the way stricter feature set that a browser offers? If they can prompt the user for access to all of these APIs [0], and the user allows it, and then it later becomes malicious while able to run a service worker in the background, that seems a bit more concerning than regular non-PWA browsing that can't continue to run after the tab is closed.
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#47Really good idea, what I'd suggest would be a separate Open Source category/tag. And a dark theme (based on prefers-color-scheme). Also, submitted a developer application; have released a few PWAs myself - hope to post them there too!
Awesome, thanks for the feedback! That's a great idea - I've posted it in our internal channel. Also, you should have been approved for a dev account - we're excited to have you onboard! Please feel free to let us know how we can help - our mission is to help web devs grow their business.
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#48This is awesome, as PWAs get better I really REALLY hope they'll challenge the big app stores. So far no one I know outside of tech knows or cares that this is even possible, but I hope sites like this will gradually change that and also change people's perceptions of what has to be a "native" app. I don't see any reason why in 10 years we should still be paying the 30% tax (+ the $100/year) just to get something wit…
nobody outside of tech cares
they already use web apps with optional notifications
anybody developing mobile apps knows that almost nobody downloads the company’s app, and it’s just there for vanity and clout
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#49Congrats. That is a project of the future!
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#50I love it, maybe finally developers will no longer be under the mercy of apple/google store! Probably the only thing PWA fails to do now that anything needs access to the hardware say wifi/Bluetooth scanner and such, and big games too, the rest of the apps, I don’t see why it needs to be installed from app/play store.
Chrome offers bluetooth support, doesn’t it?
It's in this list [0], indeed.