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Are there any existing web-app stores? I always wondered why that wasn't more of a thing.

I like the idea of an all-in-one development platform and app aggregator. As a dev though I'd be concerned about feature parity with say firebase for storage and being limited to bitcoin for payments. I feel like the main value would be as a store front or app aggregator. Some UI feedback - the app sidebar covers a large part of the screen on vertical displays.

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Thanks for the feedback. I don't know why there are no web app stores. It's sort of weird. I guess everyone did commerce on their own sites and then things like Shopify showed up.

Will take the comments on board about vertical displays. And totally get the point about firebase and payments in bitcoin. We'll probably have an onramp from credit cards soon.

I meant stores like the Apple app store, Google play store or chrome extensions store, but for standalone web apps. Not necessarily commerce, just a place to discover apps but for the browser.

Maybe you could take a Brave-like model where the platform collects payments as credits and users can easily distribute them over their favorites without any additional transactions.

Ah yea makes sense. I do like the Brave model. Something for us to consider. We actually only do BTC transactions as the first money in and then everything is as you say a credit model but we should make that more explicit with a Mu credit or something rather than a BTC balance

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