Do not download the app, use the website

Post by DirkH » Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #264

montroser wrote: post #44

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The author is not contesting that the app experience is better. Yeah, the web experience is worse -- because the product people are treating the entire web presence as a _marketing surface_ for the app. So, the web version is basically an ad for the app. This is true of Reddit, Yelp, and others. How could it not be worse? It's too bad because it's not like the web is incapable of providing a beautiful ux for those pr…

> It's too bad because it's not like the web is incapable of providing a beautiful ux for those products. I’ve never seen a web app I was happy with being a web app. I understand that a lot of people prefer web-based tools but a lot of us cannot stand them and try to get our work out of the browser as much as possible because we dislike the UX of the browser platform.

Post by charcircuit » Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 10:07 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #580

charcircuit wrote: post #510

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Like the other posters you are giving reasons why people will not switch to alternatives, but you are failing to argue why people are stuck using an app that provides no value.

for one, it's a nice little icon on the desktop of their device. you click it, and it launches the very thing you are looking to do. a browser means you have to click to open the browser. then you have to type the specific URL which is already something way more demanding than clicking the single icon even if they do remember the URL. for another, devs are definitely making the web experience subpar which has been me…

Post by brulard » Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #606

akdev1l wrote: post #572

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> Those apps are universally hated because of it. Maybe they are hated by nerds on reddit and hackernews. I gather most people are just using the apps and have no idea how they’re built.

> I gather most people are just using the apps and have no idea how they’re built. They may have no idea how they are built, but they do notice how janky and out of place they are. Take for example Microsoft Teams, have you ever met anyone who actually likes that app? It's insane that a simple chat app uses well over a gigabyte of RAM. It's absurd that one of the biggest software companies in the world can't seem to…

Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk » Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 10:24 PM UTC

WA wrote: post #555

8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #294

I don't offer a native app for my business. We have a PWA. It works great on mobile. Yet users keep asking for an app. They're so conditioned to look in the app store now. I keep having to tell them to just pin the website to their desktop. Just a couple taps. All good. I don't need or want their data. It's a liability. They pay a monthly subscription. I want their money. Not their data.

Are you leaving money on the table or is your business in such a niche that people will jump through hoops for the results?

Post by brulard » Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 10:26 PM UTC

troupo wrote: post #625

akdev1l wrote: post #572

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> Those apps are universally hated because of it. Maybe they are hated by nerds on reddit and hackernews. I gather most people are just using the apps and have no idea how they’re built.

> I gather most people are just using the apps and have no idea how they’re built. Because people who develop these only care about one thing: ease of development. They couldn't care less about what users say, and if they cared they wouldn't understand users, because users don't use terms like "latency", or "startup time", or "lag".