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Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by j1elo on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:40PM (#37786001)
Nothing that can be blamed to the (web)app store, but I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that most of these small niche (or not so small) websites offer... most have the feeling of just being an excuse prototype to be a quick grab for money / user accounts. I guess that not too unlike actual installable mobile apps, to be fair.

My experience has been:

I tried the Linear app, but couldn't see anything more than a pretty landing page before an account was required. Next.

Replit. Wanted to get a feeling of how it works, but again, just a landing page and a button that says "Start creating" but instead it should say "Log in". Next.

OpenDream: "Create original art in seconds with AI". Cool -I think-, let's create a couple of crazy pictures just for fun. Oh, well, these at least don't pretend to be fancy, the login prompt appears first thing right in your face. Next.

Replika. An AI companion, so curious. But the website's only purpose is to show a "Get the app" that brings me to Play Store. Wouldn't call it a webapp. So next, I guess?

Let's have some fun with some silly phrases in VoiceMaker! But after trying it out with "Casper, Male", I just wanted a second try with "Patricia, Female", and it already prompted me and didn't let me play anything any more. Bummer. Next.

Funnily enough, the best initial experience of these webapps, by a wide margin, has been Tower Game. It just does what it promises. It's a tower game. It runs straight out, and lets you play. No fuss. 10/10, best webapp of the ones I tested!

(PS.: PromptPerfect, "Your IDE for professional prompt engineering". Wow, it's crazy that we got to need such things, the world of LLMs is running too fast for me)

Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by presson on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:44PM (#37786018)
This is great feedback. There are some modifications coming that will enhance the discovery process. It's very early in our journey, so I'd encourage you (I'm biased, of course) to create an account and stay tuned for updates. We believe the web is in the early stages of a renaissance of some sort.
Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by meiraleal on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:50PM (#37786378)
Hey! I love store.app, great work you guys doing!

My own 2 cents of improvement is to focus less on creating account for the end users (or at least offer a complete offline / anonymous experience). I installed store.app PWA so I would prefer to get updates from its notifications in place of newsletter. I also would like to be able to like apps and install them and have store.app as a local app store

Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by kunley on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:19AM (#37788632)
It's quite hilarious that the commenter didn't want to create accounts in all the apps he described, still the crux of your proposal is .. creating another account.
Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by presson on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:45AM (#37791483)
We will have yet a another solution for this. Brick by brick :-)
Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by troupo on Friday October 06, 2023 @06:58AM (#37789139)
> I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that these small niche (or not so small) websites tend to offer

Because PWA is largely just hype with nothing to show for it. We've been hearing about how they are just as good or better than native apps for years now. And yes, the only thing we get are poorly packaged barely working mobile sites.

Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps by juniperplant on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:44AM (#37810913)
As a Linux desktop user, web apps are very much welcome. Apps like Photopea and Adobe's new Photoshop web app are things that make the Linux desktop much more viable as a platform.