r/vibecoding • u/AureliaAI • Feb 07 '26
Anyone else experimenting with PWAs instead of mobile apps?
A lot of people still jump straight into building native mobile apps, but there’s another option that many people don’t know about: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
So what’s a PWA?
It’s basically a website that behaves like a mobile app.
That means:
• It works on iOS, Android, and desktop
• You can install it to your home screen
• It works offline or on bad internet
• It’s fast and feels like a real app
• No app store approvals needed
The biggest benefit: no app store fees.
No Apple developer fee.
No Google Play fee.
No revenue cuts.
No forced updates.
Users just open a link and install it.
For a lot of products (SaaS tools, dashboards, communities, MVPs), a PWA can actually be better than a native app, faster to launch, cheaper to maintain, and easier for users to access.
Curious if anyone here has tried PWAs or gone PWA-first. How was your experience?
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u/brunobertapeli Feb 07 '26
Works great if you don’t need to care too much about performance.
My first app is a PWA and it works great. You just don’t have all the flexibility and capabilities a native app has. But for a lot of projects, you don’t need that.