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Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by narenkmano »

mwcampbell wrote: post #10

Congratulations on your launch! Interesting product. What happens if a user needs to share the emulated app with a colleague or prospective customer who requires accessibility tools such as TalkBack or VoiceOver? Can you run tools like that in the emulator alongside the app? I'm guessing this would be straightforward for Android, but maybe not so much for iOS.

Great question. We don't support audio (including TalkBack) at the moment. But it's very high on our roadmap.

For iOS, we plan to support similar features and we will explore if we can use the Accessibility Inspector tool to support VoiceOver.

Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by honkdaddy »

Love this idea. I’ve been sending screencasts to PMs for years now, something like this would have saved me dozens of hours over the years.

Since I’m mostly an Apple dev, when do you see yourselves supporting iOS as well? I’ve seen other companies try the “Mac/iOS in the cloud” thing and I’ve yet to see it work perfectly so I’m curious what your vision is to make it a great experience.

Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by fabiendevos »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #12

Congrats on your launch. What are your distinguishing selling points (besides cost) compared to Amazon Device Farm[0]? [0] https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/

Amazon Device Farm is mostly focused on testing on many different devices. We are more focused on collaboration between team members. We want to make it frictionless to share a build with your team, and get feedback from them with comments, redlines, and short clips. We're building towards this vision as fast as we can. :)

Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by fabiendevos »

honkdaddy wrote: post #13

Love this idea. I’ve been sending screencasts to PMs for years now, something like this would have saved me dozens of hours over the years. Since I’m mostly an Apple dev, when do you see yourselves supporting iOS as well? I’ve seen other companies try the “Mac/iOS in the cloud” thing and I’ve yet to see it work perfectly so I’m curious what your vision is to make it a great experience.

Thanks! We are hoping to support iOS within a couple of months. We want to have the same level of performance as what we achieve today with Android. I am curious what didn't work great when you tried iOS in the cloud options in the past? Just performance or something else as well?

Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by fabiendevos »

dfgwt wrote: post #15

Looks cool, but using it from another mobile device is very slow. Or maybe it's latency to the servers hosting the emulators, I'm not sure. Is there a way to see the ping time?

Yes it works on mobile but is a bit slower, we want to continue to improve performance there. It's reasonable on a Pixel 6 pro, I'm curious which phone are you using? We'll look into the ping time.

Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link

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Post by Rebelgecko »

dfgwt wrote: post #15

Looks cool, but using it from another mobile device is very slow. Or maybe it's latency to the servers hosting the emulators, I'm not sure. Is there a way to see the ping time?

FWIW the demo runs really well in my pixel 4a, although some of the text on the page covers up the navbar. Love how low friction it is though!
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