[spaceandshit]

I agree, I did the same thing.

I always wondered why people think building an app is the best way to get users. Maybe it’s that a large number of phone users these days are used to downloading an app for a function versus visiting a website just to get sucked into endless notifications. Maybe it’s development preferences by the creator. Maybe we’re the odd ones out and people actually do download apps just to try them out.

[skinnymuch]

How true is this stuff for the majority of people? Outside bubbles like HN? I don’t know at all. I do know most of the time, behaviors and actions described in HN comments aren’t connected much to how the world generally is. Easy low hanging examples would be how FB and increasingly anything Google is seen on here. Or feelings on self hosting or SaaS/subscriptions.

[faizmokhtar]

People actually do download apps just to try them out. You're in a bubble.