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Ask HN: Are we building too many apps?
- I have over 200 apps on my phone.
- I have over 300 passwords on LastPass.
- I have over 20 profiles to maintain.
- I have over 20 inboxes to empty.
- I use over 10 different messaging services on a weekly basis.
- Every company/service/product/brand is now getting its own app.
- Every app is missing features (offline, caching, multi-factor authentication, biometric authentication, OAuth, dark theme, form auto-fill, universal undo, real-time update, responsive design, voice input, assistant integration, multi-window, pull to refresh, deep linking, picture-in-picture, accessibility, casting, analytics, instant apps, customization, localization, permissions, security updates, mouse input, gamepad navigation, push notification, multi-platform, text search, etc).
Things are only getting worse. Are we building too many apps? Are we approaching local maxima?
- uptown 9y agoIf you use 200 of them, no. If you don't use 200 of them, uninstall the ones you don't use. What's right for you may not be right for someone else, but you seem to have organized your life in a way that requires a considerable amount of maintenance. You might considering evaluating whether all of that is necessary and whether you're getting out anything close to what you're putting into the use of these apps.