Now that Memmy is in the App Store on iOS, I feel like Wefwef is going to be left behind since this is the main place people go to discover apps. I know that Wefwef is a PWA web app but if it could be put in the store that might get more people to use it. Are there any downsides to being in the store?

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    1 year ago

    My only currently gripe with wefwef being a pwa is on iOS their is no deep link support.

    I have a push notification setup which uses a MacMini apple mail app with apple script, shortcuts, and ntfy to create push notifications.

    sample notification

    On Android pwa’s deep link aka it I can make ntfy directly open wefwef unread inbox upon clicking.

    On iOS however pwa’s can’t deep link nor can be opened by shortcuts. The closest work around I have is calling a shortcut to open wefwef to open WebView (which unfortunately means manually updating two instances of wefwef on iOS).

    Using say a pwa wrapper to make a hybrid iOS web app could fix this.

    Although on the other hand if wefwef obtains push notifications then deeplinking may become a moot point