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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
#52fyi - some feedback on your website, in case it might be helpful.
I clicked on it first before I read your description here.
Looking at your website, I had no idea what you were doing.
I don't even see "mobile" mentioned anywhere.
The headline says "Turn your app into a link"; I skipped over "APK", and read "get a shareable link to an interactive version of your app"
Um, isn't my app already interactive?
I scrolled through the rest of the page, and still had no idea what you did.
Then I came back here, clicked on "comments", and read your description.
Which was great. Oh, you give a link to a -> mobile app -> emulator -> which can be easily tested without having to get it on an actual phone.
If you took your description here and put it on your home page, it'd be much better :-)
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#53fyi - some feedback on your website, in case it might be helpful. I clicked on it first before I read your description here. Looking at your website, I had no idea what you were doing. I don't even see "mobile" mentioned anywhere. The headline says "Turn your app into a link"; I skipped over "APK", and read "get a shareable link to an interactive version of your app" Um, isn't my app already interactive? I scrolled t…
This is good feedback, we will definitely update the description. Is "A mobile app emulator you can share with a link" clearer as a first sentence?
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#5415 min/session, even on highest payed tier? I smell AWS Lambda :D
We're not running on AWS Lambda but we had the limit in place because our servers are pretty expensive to run. We are planning to add to the pricing model a pay as you go option which will allow for us to provide unlimited time per session.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#55Underrated use cases (which I hopefully don't ruin by saying out loud): -Share a browser session; someone can log in and let someone else do stuff without having to share their password. -Burner phone to install garbage, or untrusted apps on that "you only need once" or that you just need to use to screenshot a coupon etc. -Burner phone to access Facebook or TikTok with, with no private data risk -US IP address to ge…
I've used an emulator in the past for GPS spoofing too. Obviously useful for testing and what not but also for location based apps / games / etc. Tangent: IIRC Pokemon GO (and probably other more professional usecases for GPS spoofing) mitigates spoofing via a variety of techniques
It should be fairly straightforward for us to provide that option.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#56Nice! Do you plan to support virtual camera (e.g I give it a stream to use for the camera)
We can look into it. Adding it to the backlog.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#57> mobile app developers are stuck with pushing builds every night and waiting a day for the team to see the new code That doesn't ring true. TestFlight / Play Store uploads are typically available within 15 minutes. Still, it's nice you're solving deployment overhead. In particular, my team needs side-by-side installs of the live/prod build and dev/staging build. It's double the headache to stand up a store listing a…
Totally true that TestFlight / Play Store uploads are available within 15 min, but in our experience, nobody wants to push to those platform that frequently, and force many upgrades of the app every day, so instead they do nightly builds at best. More importantly, it doesn't help if people don't have the right phone. We would love to help you with this use case, does an emulator in the browser works for you or do you…
I think many commenters here haven’t been a mobile engineer at a large company- most engineers don’t have creds to manage the app for the face of a +50B company.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#58Amazing! Props to the creators, incredible idea.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#59Amazing! Props to the creators, incredible idea.
Allowing for complementary sign up options besides google would most likely encourage more people that use no google services evaluating the platform, myself included.
Something to keep in mind in case you notice more people bouncing off your register page more than you'd normally expect.
Re: Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
#6015 min/session, even on highest payed tier? I smell AWS Lambda :D
We're not running on AWS Lambda but we had the limit in place because our servers are pretty expensive to run. We are planning to add to the pricing model a pay as you go option which will allow for us to provide unlimited time per session.
Your customers don't care _why_ your service is unreasonably expensive.
Would you go to a dry cleaner that charged you $50 a shirt because "I fly the shirts to my brothers shop on the other coast to be cleaned"? Of course not.
I can think of no reason why you need to be on AWS vs a dedicated server or a stack of used Dell servers in your garage.