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Discussion on: Please don't make a mobile app (unless if you have to)

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Aryan Godde

Ok, how about teaching us how to make a PWA WhatsApp clone xd.

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Saurabh Sharma

WhatsApp is a native app because they don't want to store your data, they can't afford it.

But for a PWA people expect them to work all across their devices not like "No it's an Android app, you can't run it on your PC or IOS device"

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Lucis

As a matter of fact, Whatsapp wouldn't be the hardest app to replicate if supporting low-level (and iPhones hihi) phones wasn't a goal.

I think the most advanced use cases for Whatsapp are notifications and registering itself as a share app, both supported by PWA tecnologies.

I get your point, but my title and the comment disclaimer both make it clear that web apps aren't a silver bullet now. I hope it becomes one someday, but it might not, and there's no problem with that.

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Aryan Godde

No i asked you to do it because i want to make such an app :p this has dms right? Can we have a talk :0