Ask HN: App or Website?

3 points by dkarp 6y ago ↗ HN

I am working on a new project and we're trying to decide whether or not we should start out app-only or website-only

What factors do you think should be considered?

In our case, we're targeting people in their 20's and 30's. It'll be to help with financial literacy and so there'll be some financial modelling (that may be harder to drill into on an app)

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JoshTriplett 6y ago ↗

Both: build a Progressive Web App (PWA), and also package that up as an app, giving an identical experience either way.

mikece 6y ago ↗

Build your PWA with Ionic and you're only five minutes away from having something which can be packaged as a hybrid app and made available in Apple's App Store.

dkarp 6y ago ↗

Is it that much harder to push a PWA to the App store's without Ionic?

jacquesm 6y ago ↗

Website. Read any one of I don't recall how many threads on what it is like when your source of income gets cut off by some third party you decided to trust as a platform to build on.

dkarp 6y ago ↗

Definitely a concern. I wonder how big players are handling that. In the UK for example there are now many App only banks (Monzo, Starling...)