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Ben Scharfstein@scharf
2/10/2023

The benefit of being able to send mobile notifications cannot be understated. Mobile sites are great but if your users are on mobile and you don’t have a way to notify them you’re cutting yourself off at the knees. Many crypto projects are desktop first (bc wallets) and don’t internalize the lessons of the 20

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Justin Hunter@polluterofminds
2/10/2023

Do you think if iOS would allow push notifications for PWA, we'd see a lot more mobile-first innovation? I suspect many web3 apps go desktop less because of wallets and more because of app store reviews.

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Abhishek Agarwal@abhishek1point0
2/10/2023

There’s an ask of post-2010s. To discovery every frame of the UX. Mobile asks that question and defines novel UI.

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Chad@cwe
2/10/2023

Omg this. We’re doing a PWA so we can do browser notifications, but they’ve been ruined by all the scammy content sites so nobody enables them

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tim 🥝@timdaub
2/11/2023

but tbh mobile sites for crypto inherit the UX of the wallet, which as a dapp dev you cannot control. Which means, when ppl use Metamask Mobile on Android, your users are guanteed to have an abysmal experience. So I wouldn‘t even ship a website, and instead build a thing like the FC client.

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Mark Carey@markcarey
2/12/2023

Very true. I built myself a mobile app to notify me of some web3 stuff — mainly to avoid being liquidated! — meant to expand on it and release publicly, maybe soon…. Even if mobile apps aren’t feasible for some dapps, there are other ways to send mobile notifications 🤔