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Better marketplace discovery systems. Apple's App Store, the Google Play store and Steam all suffer from the same problem: it's very hard for the people who wou

by lj3 10y ago

Better marketplace discovery systems. Apple's App Store, the Google Play store and Steam all suffer from the same problem: it's very hard for the people who would enjoy your app to find your app. This probably also applies to streaming video and music.

_coldfire 10y ago
I'd say that applied to music/videos long before streaming was even a word. Things are much better today.
renken 10y ago
Isn't that basically what Product Hunt does? I notice when I look for an app that I need, I now search Product Hunt first before checking the App Store.
overcast 10y ago
I'm saying it now, apps are on their way out, web only is the future. Everyone is completely sick of installing a stupid app for everything the want to use. Compound that with a billion notifications for all of those apps. With that said Steam does a pretty good. The discovery queues have led me to some great finds, as well as all of the curator lists.
- sotojuan 10y ago
  The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most businesses don't care that their app is slow and bloated and defer resources to the app).
  - overcast 10y ago
    What do the majority of web apps need, to compete with native apps? 99% of them definitely DO NOT need to be native.
    - j_r_f 10y ago
      I'd say the one really important thing web is missing is notifications for when your not on the site. I don't really know how a browser could ever implement in a similar fashion.
      - overcast 10y ago
        Email, or SMS? Though I don't see why Apples Push Notification Service, can't be opened up for the web side. They are already going through Apple servers correct? Safari has push notifications, let's combine the two.
      - mydigitalself 10y ago
        This already exists, just not fully on mobile yet, but it's coming. http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notifications-on-the-open-web https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...

by lj3 10y ago

_coldfire 10y ago

I'd say that applied to music/videos long before streaming was even a word. Things are much better today.

renken 10y ago

Isn't that basically what Product Hunt does? I notice when I look for an app that I need, I now search Product Hunt first before checking the App Store.

overcast 10y ago

I'm saying it now, apps are on their way out, web only is the future. Everyone is completely sick of installing a stupid app for everything the want to use. Compound that with a billion notifications for all of those apps. With that said Steam does a pretty good. The discovery queues have led me to some great finds, as well as all of the curator lists.

sotojuan 10y ago
The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most businesses don't care that their app is slow and bloated and defer resources to the app).
- overcast 10y ago
  What do the majority of web apps need, to compete with native apps? 99% of them definitely DO NOT need to be native.
  - j_r_f 10y ago
    I'd say the one really important thing web is missing is notifications for when your not on the site. I don't really know how a browser could ever implement in a similar fashion.
    - overcast 10y ago
      Email, or SMS? Though I don't see why Apples Push Notification Service, can't be opened up for the web side. They are already going through Apple servers correct? Safari has push notifications, let's combine the two.
    - mydigitalself 10y ago
      This already exists, just not fully on mobile yet, but it's coming. http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ http://w3c.github.io/push-api/ https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notifications-on-the-open-web https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...