I’m currently in a whole thing with the marketing team where we’re basically forced to do an app version of our website because bookmarks just aren’t done that well in mobile browsers. If you make the user install an app, then it’ll be on their home screen and they’ll be more likely to return to your site, whereas if you’re web-only there’s a chance they’ll forget about you after the first visit.
It’s going to cost us tens of thousands to develop the mobile app, $100/year for Apple’s developer fee, and 30% of our subscription revenue, all whilst providing no actual technical benefits or making it easier for the user.
Apple and Google have made billions of dollars just off the back of nothing more than websites wanting to have their link appear on the mobile’s home screen.
Just make your website a progressive web app, then the end user can install it just like a native app and you skip all the BS that a native app needs. And only one platform to support.
Fun fact: you can easily make shortcuts for sites on linux and windows’ home desktop, which will open the default browser at the page. You cannot create a URL shortcut in the home screen of fucking android unless you’re using fucking chrome. Hell, depending on the browser, you can’t even fucking save the html for offline reading. I doubt iphones are any better
I’m currently in a whole thing with the marketing team where we’re basically forced to do an app version of our website because bookmarks just aren’t done that well in mobile browsers. If you make the user install an app, then it’ll be on their home screen and they’ll be more likely to return to your site, whereas if you’re web-only there’s a chance they’ll forget about you after the first visit.
It’s going to cost us tens of thousands to develop the mobile app, $100/year for Apple’s developer fee, and 30% of our subscription revenue, all whilst providing no actual technical benefits or making it easier for the user.
Apple and Google have made billions of dollars just off the back of nothing more than websites wanting to have their link appear on the mobile’s home screen.
Just make your website a progressive web app, then the end user can install it just like a native app and you skip all the BS that a native app needs. And only one platform to support.
Fun fact: you can easily make shortcuts for sites on linux and windows’ home desktop, which will open the default browser at the page. You cannot create a URL shortcut in the home screen of fucking android unless you’re using fucking chrome. Hell, depending on the browser, you can’t even fucking save the html for offline reading. I doubt iphones are any better
Firefox Android can make a home screen shortcut just fine…