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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by djb_hackernews on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @12:32PM (#3452717)
You should check out the site when its back up, obviously the app auto updates when new content is published.

It works because you have to install a plugin in your WP blog, which presumably has WP publish/edit hooks etc which notifies an Appifier service, which then pushes to the apps, making sure all content is up to date and available offline. It's a pretty popular, if not the only, design for content surfacing apps.

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Re:I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching... by justincormack on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:38PM (#3453278)
It is actually not obvious. Now the site is back up I can't find anything that explains how updates are handled, or how offline works. For all I can tell the plugin might just be to build the app... I hope you are right as that is more useful. Some explanation would be good...
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