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Comment by joemaller1 | Hacker News Reader

This is a great puzzle game and a very impressive demo web app. However, I wish it was available from the various app stores for two reasons:

1. I want to pay you for this.

2. It will be ripped off a dozen ways, and I would rather see you make money rather instead of some horrible knockoff app-vendor.

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Thanks, I know it's the risk, but this is why it will always be free and ad-free on GitHub. Like 2048.

On Android + Chrome, a banner will popup to install it as PWA on your phone and you won't see the difference. I believe you are on iOS? I wish Safari iOS was better at following the new web feature (like WebRTC...)

Thanks for your feedback, that's pretty cool!

how to make it work offline? i would appreciate APK as well

By default (with chrome) a service worker will cache the app for offline use. If Chrome didn't asked you, just add the page to your homescreen.

i am using Brave browser, there was no popup but it seem to work offline

Brave is based on Chromium. With a bit of chance, the service worker should be working as fine. That mean even offline you can access the page (by going to the URL as usual).

But I know, the UX sucks to access such a silly game :(

Kind of amusing to mention 2048 as it's a clone of 1024 which is a clone of Threes (an iOS game originally). At least according to Wikipedia.

  Cirulli himself described 2048 as a clone of Veewo Studios' app 1024, who has actually said in the description of the app to be a clone of Threes.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/2048_(video_game)

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