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Should you build a mobile app or a web application? Eric Skiff and David Renz highlight the pros and cons of both options, discussing home screen presence, push notifications, hardware interaction, and the impact of new EU antitrust regulations. We also explore the challenges associated with the release cycles of mobile apps compared to the continuous development and release process of web applications. Learn when building an app makes sense and how to weigh the extra time, costs, and risks involved.

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One of the questions that we get often from founders is should I build an app or should I build a web application? So Eric, do you highlight a couple of the key points in deciding between people as it relates to like some of the challenges that you end up facing with a, with a mobile app that you wouldn't maybe face with a if you went down the web route? Sure. So what are the pros and cons of building an app? If I have an app, I can be present on a user's home screen. If I have an app, I can send push notifications. If I have an app, I can talk to hardware that I might not be able to access if I just have a web application. So there are good reasons to build an app. However, those reasons are becoming less important as time goes on, and specifically Apple now, because of some of the EU antitrust regulations, has been forced to allow web apps to do more of what you needed an app to do even 610 months ago. Now you can have a web app that gets installed as a PWA Progressive web app that sends push notifications even when the app is closed. So you don't need an app to do push notifications on iOS anymore, and that's been possible on Android. For a while. So if it's just push notifications, an app is not essential. However, sometimes an app does make sense. You want to do things like AI and the app, you want to talk to specific hardware. So the challenges of an app are that you are not on the same cycle of development and release as you are with the web. So when we build web apps, we're trying to hit continuous development and continuous release, which means that if we build a feature, we test it and it's passed, that goes live. There's no gap. Between shipping software where we're thinking about, OK, we've got these 12 new features we need to communicate with users, we need to roll this out carefully. It's just, Nope, We're constantly pushing new stuff. And if there's a problem, it's very easy to address and push a fix for it rather than have this release cycle, which honestly eats time and money, right? A release cycle is something that is just like kind of wasted effort if you can avoid Apple and Android tightly control the way that you release apps to the app. Sure. And what gets approved. So with those, you have to be very careful that you're building in time for Apple or Google to approve your app. It also means that if you have a bug in market on a Saturday morning, you're not going to get a fix out for that in under 24 hours, right? There is no real way to push new code as a fix instant. We're on the web. Yeah, half an hour, make a code fix, push it, you're good. So when you weigh those pros and cons. You want to make sure that the app is worth the extra time cost, the release cycle, and the risk of not being able to fix something in market instead.

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