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The app also allows "playing" and logging your routine, as the phone is more accessible for most, I thought that to be a better medium. Additionally, I wanted t
by hajola 7y ago
The app also allows "playing" and logging your routine, as the phone is more accessible for most, I thought that to be a better medium. Additionally, I wanted to test out flutter. Might add a web version in the future.
EDIT: Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the criticism as a user. It was haste on my part as a maker. I made a quick fix now, by adding screenshots. Hopefully, they will give enough information for a test drive of the app.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoApp install is a high bar, people won't do it to find out what your app does. The moment I just saw install buttons, I closed the tab. Your website doesn't have to be the full experience, but it has to be enough to convince people the app is worth installing.
- spaceandshit 7y agoI agree, I did the same thing. I always wondered why people think building an app is the best way to get users. Maybe it’s that a large number of phone users these days are used to downloading an app for a function versus visiting a website just to get sucked into endless notifications. Maybe it’s development preferences by the creator. Maybe we’re the odd ones out and people actually do download apps just to try them out.
- skinnymuch 7y agoHow true is this stuff for the majority of people? Outside bubbles like HN? I don’t know at all. I do know most of the time, behaviors and actions described in HN comments aren’t connected much to how the world generally is. Easy low hanging examples would be how FB and increasingly anything Google is seen on here. Or feelings on self hosting or SaaS/subscriptions.
- faizmokhtar 7y agoPeople actually do download apps just to try them out. You're in a bubble.
- cmauniada 7y agoGive me a taste of what the app does, and if I like it I will download it. I wish you could redirect deeplinks from the browser to the appstore on your phone (something like google maps on android). That would also be acceptable.
- gingersnap 7y agoI actually bothered to install the app, but when it then also needed me to create a login before even understanding what it does I uninstalled it.