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Show HN: Bookmark iPhone apps (weekend+ project)

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AppQuu lets you bookmark iPhone apps you find on the web. It puts those apps in a 'Quu' (Queue) for you to browse on your phone. @ankit and I come across a bunch of apps on our computers during the day, but never remember to check them out on our phones. [FYI: full-time, we're working on an awesome (hopefully) app recommendation project.]

Anyway, try out AppQuu - maybe you find it useful too.

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Surprising that this isn't a feature already. I can go to https://market.android.com/ and install apps straight to my phone from a browser on any machine if I'm signed in.

Old Windows CE devices could do that too: you just had to click on a .cab file link from within the device's browser to install a program.

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Not a comment specifically on your app, but I found it amazing how quickly I closed out of this when the tutorial video showed up. I hadn't really thought of this before, and it might just be me, but most tutorial videos make me want to leave your site as quickly as possible.

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Surprising that this isn't a feature already. I can go to https://market.android.com/ and install apps straight to my phone from a browser on any machine if I'm signed in.

Old Windows CE devices could do that too: you just had to click on a .cab file link from within the device's browser to install a program.

The Android feature is actually more robust than that: Click "Install" in the browser on your desktop, and seconds later, the app is installed on your phone. Without having to ever touch the phone.

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Surprising that this isn't a feature already. I can go to https://market.android.com/ and install apps straight to my phone from a browser on any machine if I'm signed in.

how often do you use that feature?

If you're looking for general data points, this is my primary means of installing applications on my Android phone. Only ~1/5 of my apps were installed using the on-device Market app.

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Not a comment specifically on your app, but I found it amazing how quickly I closed out of this when the tutorial video showed up. I hadn't really thought of this before, and it might just be me, but most tutorial videos make me want to leave your site as quickly as possible.

I can't disagree more. I am the kind of person that is very unlikely to ever sign up for a site that doesnt have some kind of demo or a video. It takes only a minute or two to passively watch a video to see if something might be interesting, where signing up to use some new service is way past my level of interest. A video is a much lower barrier to entry than much else.

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In its current form, adding a bookmark on a mobile device or iPad is impossible. You need to find a way to let users do that. You also need to add a way that people can delete there accounts since you're asking for our phone numbers

thanks for the feedback geuis.

shoot me an email [satjot at appquu dot com] and I can delete your account.

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