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by joshuawright11 1068 days ago
Yeah - however IMO large growth isn't as important until some semblance of PMF is hit with a few core users.

Then can treat the other platform as a marketing cost - i.e. if you're making 75k on iOS and predict a similar revenue for Android it's worth it to hire an Android developer for to build it out. But if one hasn't yet found a few hundred quality users on one platform why build the other one.
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a_wild_dandan 1068 days ago
Why target one platform when your project can target all major platforms (web, iOS, Android, MacOS/Windows/Linux)? Especially if you're already experienced with React and can later hire from that monstrous talent pool?

Hell, instead of casting that wider net for users, you could still only release/focus on iOS, but still have tons of work done when you're ready to move your React app to those other platforms.

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scarface_74 1068 days ago
Because your app will equally suck on all platforms?
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thih9 1067 days ago
You might not be the target user - and actual target users might not care about the native vs react native app UX.
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mkss 1067 days ago
Because your app will work on all platforms and the rest of the billions of app users outside of this little niche-of-a-niche-of-a-niche forum just want to do whatever they need to get done on a app in their normal lives and don't even know what you are talking about when you say the app "sucks" because it doesn't use exactly the right rounded corners on a button or the listview scroll physics are exactly same as a "native" app.
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scarface_74 1067 days ago
Until the people wonder why it doesn’t do $x new feature that Apple released a year ago but there is no cross platform equivalent.

But more importantly, why it doesn’t take advantage of an accessibility feature that that a native app would get for free.

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artifabrian 1068 days ago
I agree with this and reflects my personal experience.

While potencial of a large audience is great, if you don't even have users to start with, the choice should be the response to "what gets PMF faster" and not "what do I need to take me from 500k ARR to +2M ARR".

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thih9 1068 days ago
For some apps, cross platform mobile development and finding core users across larger audience can be easier than going native and finding core users on a single platform.

There can be probably other reasons too.

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