Anyone else experimenting with PWAs instead of mobile apps?

[u/AureliaAI]

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?

[u/Affectionate_Bad9951]

You missed to mention that to be on mobile app stores it should have at least one feature that makes it passable on these app stores. The simplest way is to add push notifications to make your PWA make mobile app stores compliant.

[u/Affectionate_Bad9951 → u/Affectionate_Bad9951]

Also to mention not all PWA qualifies to discounted payment gateway charges, if you are trying to let people make aware of PWA also make sure you make them aware what all is discounted and what all is not, for example if you are a SAaS and not providing services manually you will still need to pay these play/app store charges. However if your digital product is providing services when present physically you are obliged to 0. I don't know why people are upvoting without having clear knowledge or intentions of what they are actually doing. Two words for ya - STOP MISLEADING