Maybe Iām projecting but I wonder if anyone outside the dev / nostr community knows what PWAs are. I had no idea before nostr.
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I knew it before nostr but I rarely used it.
Usage of PWAs has gone up like a 1000% for me since then š
And to be fair, I don't know any non-dev person who uses PWA
Not many people know what PWAs are, true.
The adoption is a challenge, also Apple is a pain in the ass there adopting standards.
Fairly common rather than releasing an app and dealing with the scrutiny from the centralized app stores.
šš»āāļø Non-dev here, but I've been a #DeMu fan since its genesis in 2021. Had to download LNBeats.com as a PWA to play music for people IRL. That's how and when I learned.
I knew long before and used them occasionally to get webpages as an "app" via the browser. If I was going to build a website it makes sense, as long aa you design your page for mobile viewing... One of the services we use for work relies on PWA as the only way to get it on your phone, has been like that for ~8+ years.
Makes me think of other under-utilized things... My personal website was WAP enabled back in the early days of mobile internet. š
I did before Nostr, but I was also a web developer years before š¤
Same
There've been a few big pushes historically, particularly in response to episodes of Apple App Store stupidity, but never really held.
Just websites that feel like native apps. I like 'em. Less intrusive than a native app, no installation friction and circumvents app store gatekeepers.
I like PWAs
I used to make them