Comment by coder543 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by coder543 | Hacker News Reader

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I like the concept a lot, but I also think it should filter to only installable apps by default. If you detect a user is on a mobile device, it would probably also make sense to enable the mobile filter by default too.

It would also be nice if there was an offline-capable filter as well, but maybe I missed it?

I also notice the Developer tab is not part of the PWA, which kicks you out of the PWA experience on iOS, even though it seems like that marketing page could be contained within the tab? It might also be nice to link to resources for getting started on developing a high quality PWA, if any resources like that exist.

Now that PWAs on iOS can finally show notifications (if the user wants), I hope more developers will take them seriously. I trust browser isolation more than I trust native app isolation, and a lot of the native apps that I use would work perfectly as a PWA.

> PWAs on iOS can finally show notifications

This has been such a great addition, once it was officially added I've quickly built a small web app that can now distribute notifications to all my devices effortlessly, with a single codebase and with no need to pay the dreaded $99/yr subscription. Haven't released that publicly but I might at some point once I clean up the mess that inevitably resulted from me writing it in around 2 hours.

Not sure if it's entirely similar, but there's also this for those who don't want to build it themselves: https://ntfy.sh/

Did you use a framework or anything? I’ve been working on a small vite/vue/nuxt PWA and I’ve been wondering about other options

Just React and fastify. I have my own authentication library that makes things easier but it's not production ready yet.

Thank you, this is great feedback. What to show and when has been an ongoing convo - we chose to evolve this based on supply side milestones. Keep an eye out for some cool updates :-). We don't yet have the ability to filter by offline-capable, but that's a great idea. Re the dev tab, this is a work in progress - right now a few things are split apart, but we'll be folding everything back together at some point.

Re notifications, 100% agree - this was a major roadblock. The next few years are going to be very interesting :-P

But isn’t “installable” the entire point of this site, and your company?

If you want you help the discussion against native apps, you need to clearly take the side of proper installable PWAs, not just links to websites. It feels misleading and gives argument ammo to the “native always” crowd.

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