<story><title>I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores</title><url>http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judah</author><text>Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page.&lt;p&gt;The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google&amp;#x27;s Play Store to be the simplest and quickest store to get a PWA published in.&lt;p&gt;Another interesting bit is that web technologies haven&amp;#x27;t caught up to native. My PWA isn&amp;#x27;t super complex -- it&amp;#x27;s a glorified music player -- and yet integrating into the OS (now playing song on the lock screen, for example) was painful and non-standard, particularly on iOS.&lt;p&gt;All that said, I&amp;#x27;m quite excited about PWAs. I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually (~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and desktop app stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al2o3cr</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually
    (~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and
    desktop app stores.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Am I the only one who remembers people saying this EXACT thing about Java Swing apps? Not saying it&amp;#x27;s impossible, but &amp;quot;Write Once Run Anywhere&amp;quot; has been a mirage &amp;quot;just over the horizon&amp;quot; for a long time.</text></comment>
<story><title>I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores</title><url>http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judah</author><text>Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page.&lt;p&gt;The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google&amp;#x27;s Play Store to be the simplest and quickest store to get a PWA published in.&lt;p&gt;Another interesting bit is that web technologies haven&amp;#x27;t caught up to native. My PWA isn&amp;#x27;t super complex -- it&amp;#x27;s a glorified music player -- and yet integrating into the OS (now playing song on the lock screen, for example) was painful and non-standard, particularly on iOS.&lt;p&gt;All that said, I&amp;#x27;m quite excited about PWAs. I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually (~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and desktop app stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iandev</author><text>In the article: &amp;quot;Aside: I guess Apple won’t let you submit an app unless you have a registered, legal company?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Although it does seem to be this way, you can submit an app to the store without being a registered, legal company. The most common route is to just mark yourself as a sole proprietorship using your own name. No need for an LLC or anything. However, this may vary from country to country.</text></comment>