The use case I had in mind is to be able to import apps from their repositories, similar to what Obtanium allows you to do, by pasting a the link of the repo. As such, I could definitely replace Obtanium and switch to Zap.store, but I would still maintain Obtanium by the moment since I have some apps that I want to keep up-to-date, and they aren't available on Zap.store.
Another detail that could be interesting is the ability to attach metadata to files in the repository, similar to how Alby's PkgZap (https://pkgzap.albylabs.com/) allows you to do with all the necessary information to verify an app directly from the repo. This would provide a convenient way to access and evaluate apps without having to visit multiple sources.
I'm thinking we could have a way to manually add APKs. The tricky part is updates, how do we know a new release is out (unless hitting i.e. github's API)?
As for metadata probably not worth it because we're only doing this for the short term. The goal is metadata will live on nostr when devs sign their apps and releases.
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