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zinekeller on Oct 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, ex...

> You can’t do this reliably on the web for a major event because you can’t assume network connectivity

I can't believe I'm saying this, but you could've use PWA instead (except for brightness).

culturestate on Oct 15, 2022 [–]

You're not wrong, but the pushback for doing an app like this as a PWA will always be discoverability - it's a lot easier to just say "search UEFA 22 in the App Store" than it is to point people to a URL and teach them how to use the add to Home Screen functionality.

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