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Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Hi guys! I don't want to build native apps. So I built Pep. It turns your website into a Progressive Web App (PWA) with one line of code. It's kind of like Workbox ( https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox ), but with adaptive pre-fetching, CDN, and responsive asset batteries included. I'd love your input; feedback is how good products become great.

Your site is not Lighthouse compliant. Why should I trust your service?

Thank you for the great feedback. Ship ship ship.

Lighthouse score is now 91%.

* https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200227_RM_75b0bc807f4fc90...

Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Posts like these really hurt the Show HN prefix. There is absolutely nothing here. Just marketing fluff. Are you coding on PowerPoint?

> Are you coding on PowerPoint? One worse: Emacs. =]

Well, you can sure handle criticism like a champ. Well done for shipping and for sticking around. Tough crowd.

Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are you coding on PowerPoint? One worse: Emacs. =]

Well, you can sure handle criticism like a champ. Well done for shipping and for sticking around. Tough crowd.

Got a link to what they've shipped? I'm really interested, I've been looking, and I cant find an example of pep in action.

All I can find on the OP's link is marketing copy about how much PWAs are than standard web sites.

Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your site is not Lighthouse compliant. Why should I trust your service?

Thank you for the great feedback. Ship ship ship. Lighthouse score is now 91%. * https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200227_RM_75b0bc807f4fc90...

No. It's not ship ship ship. Ship whenever you have something to ship.

Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you can sure handle criticism like a champ. Well done for shipping and for sticking around. Tough crowd.

Got a link to what they've shipped? I'm really interested, I've been looking, and I cant find an example of pep in action. All I can find on the OP's link is marketing copy about how much PWAs are than standard web sites.

Ok maybe 'shipping' was the wrong word. I understand the criticism here, but unlike many posters that disappear at the slightest criticism, OP stuck around and at least had a sense of humour about it. That counts for something in my book

Re: Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

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Get back to me when there's something to actually see. Call my cynical but having made a few progressive webapps myself I'm very dubious that a "single line of code" is going to result in a great, performant PWA. How is the service worker installed? Or the manifest.json? How do you decide the user behavior that triggers a page precache? How does that precache deal with things like user logins when it has no visibilit…

You aren't wrong. Period.
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