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Discussion on: Identifying and Mitigating the Ninety-Ninety Rule in Software Development

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rhymes

Love the idea to release it early. "rip off the bandaid" as you called it :-)

Congrats! The feedback has been good so far!

About the final approach: a not so hidden plus of having a native shell wrapped around the web app is that improving the web app will improve the native app(s) as well.

This adds a lot of value, "for free".

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Ben Halpern

About the final approach: a not so hidden plus of having a native shell wrapped around the web app is that improving the web app will improve the native app(s) as well.

Exactlyyyyy. I really want to be spending time pouring resources into one great application, which grows in complexity vertically instead of horizontal complexity where we have to reimplement everything over and over again. Over time we will learn the right patterns of sending appropriate messages between web and native.

I actually feel now like we are sort of a browser maker in a sense. We kind of get to think in terms of "what would the ideal single-purpose mobile browser be"? I don't think it's set in stone that you can only benefit from one web browser. We get to build the browser of our dreams to support a web-based experience.