What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your Indie App

Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by kitsunesoba on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:03PM (#17854022)

True for mobile, but there’s a good chance that if I want to use it on my phone, I’ll also want to use it on my desktop and in the latter case a tab is unavoidable.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by krn on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:56AM (#17859788)

> I’ll also want to use it on my desktop and in the latter case a tab is unavoidable.

False. Chrome Shortcuts[1] turn websites into web apps on desktop. Something similar should be available on other browsers, too.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/create-shortcuts-in-google-chrome-f...

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by greenhatman on Monday August 27, 2018 @09:59PM (#17856096)

So what do you expect? A desktop app?

BTW, you can make shortcuts to web apps from Chrome that open in their own window, and works like an app. Basically a single page, but with all browser controls removed. So it's a separate app on your window list, with the site's fav icon used as it's icon.

I do this with Whatsapp.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by TekMol on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:19PM (#17854145)

Just bookmark it. Or use Google to find it when you need it.

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