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Comment by pjmlp | Hacker News Reader

For me the whole worker setup filtering requests and storing results on local storage, looks like gimmicks.

They should have designed it as a proper native experience.

They don't want to be subject to app store approval policies, shitty TOS, nor pay Google or Apple a 30% cut. Installing the app is easy, visit the web site, clck the install banner, add to home screen and you're good to go. On the developer side you get to deploy as iften as needed.

Yes, the service worker thing is annoying but you possibly don't need it if you have a server backend. It's basically a glirified website with a home screen icon. Most of the native vehicle, asset or fitness tracking apps need a backend anyways and they fail miserably when disconnected from the network.

Might be easier for the user, sucks as developer experience.

Better do a mobile Web friendly website and leave it at that.

Most users hardly tell the difference anyway.

> They don't want to be subject to app store approval policies, shitty TOS, nor pay Google or Apple a 30% cut. Installing the app is easy, visit the web site, clck the install banner, add to home screen and you're good to go. On the developer side you get to deploy as iften as needed.

And the metrics are saying that people click it?

We don't care about people clicking it as it's not tiktok but an app that complements a certain hardware solution. If you don't have the hardware, you don't need the app.

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