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Re: Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost

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Post by hnand »

davely wrote: post #2

Overall, nice. But it immediately hits a pet peeve of mine: requiring an in-app purchase to enable native features built into my device’s OS. In this case, $6 US for dark mode.

I'll think about a better approach of monetizing the app. I always struggle when trying to choose what should be behind an in-app purchase. In this case I just picked the least restrictive option of what the popular competitor apps do (you can still use the dark mode, but it gets switched back when the session ends). Judging from the feedback on these apps I assumed that people are fine with it.

Re: Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost

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Post by hnand »

tkgally wrote: post #8

Nice! My first impressions were quite positive—the app scratches several itches I’ve had with HN’s UI—and I like the full feature set, so I bought the paid version. I hope that gives me the right to make one request: a native iPad version.

Thanks! I want to perfect the experience on iPhones first, but iPad version is definitely in my backlog.

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Post by david422 »

zuhsetaqi wrote: post #10
NaN1352 wrote: post #9

Pet peeve : wish "iOS" term was banned and use "iPhone only" instead. -iPad user

iOS is iPhone only. iPads are running iPadOS

Hmmm, never even knew that. Thought iOS covered both iphone and ipad.

Re: Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

david422 wrote: post #16
zuhsetaqi wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS is iPhone only. iPads are running iPadOS

Hmmm, never even knew that. Thought iOS covered both iphone and ipad.

https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-16/

Re: Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost

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Post by spiderice »

prepend wrote: post #5
davely wrote: post #2

Overall, nice. But it immediately hits a pet peeve of mine: requiring an in-app purchase to enable native features built into my device’s OS. In this case, $6 US for dark mode.

I get annoyed by these things too based on some sort of perceived cost/value of the feature being available and implemented, but paygated. Id rather just have a “donate $6 to help dev” in app purchase as it seems more authentic. However, maybe there are really people who think dark mode is worth $6. Kids raised on Roblox seem to have no ethical issue with paying $5 for a digital hat that is just flipping a bit.

It isn’t flipping a bit, it’s designing an entire free to play game, getting millions of users, designing a hat, then flipping a bit. And about a million other things not mentioned.
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