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App 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 hav
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
App 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.