Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by endorphone on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:21PM (#18826313)

I'm speaking to this discussion, not the submitted article. Sure, start with a web app (though it really depends on the target -- if the web app yields a sub-standard interface, performance, or utility it's a dead end) with hopes of building an app when you have an established base.

However in this discussion there are a lot of people who are arguing from the perspective of a world that doesn't exist, based upon the same "this changes everything" argument we've heard every year.

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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by mbesto on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:37PM (#18827374)

> I'm speaking to this discussion, not the submitted article.

Precisely my point. That's not what the OP was saying. Per their comment: to get people to install your app just to try it out.

> based upon the same "this changes everything" argument we've heard every year.

Did we read the same comment? Where did the OP write "this changes everything"?

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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by taco_emoji on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:23PM (#18828276)

You're using OP to mean "the root-level HN comment" where @endorphone thought you meant TFA.

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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by mbesto on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:55PM (#18828537)

I am, but they're both making the same point, so it's kinda moot.

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