I wonder when you people will stop thinking with your marketing/growhacking/SEO/spam brain and start being on the user side. If you want low value visitors just go and buy ad clicks, thanks!
I strongly disagree that what he is asking is user hostile, just like asking microphone or camera permissions aren't user hostile. You also didn't need to lecture anyone like that on hacker news, thanks!
What they are asking would be used as an annoying tool against the user in the same way today sites ask for user location or push notification (on other OSs).
Websites are not randomly asking for mic or camera because that would be creepy and visitors would just run away.
I am not lecturing, I am giving my feedback on the matter, like everyone else here. If your product is good, users will save your site in their home, don’t worry about that.
lol, this was a project I did for a friendly event free of charge. I choose PWA because it's only useful for three days and nobody is going to install an app for this, you want it working right away. I was getting good results but the experience was just way smoother on android. A good prompt/banner/whatever that the app is installable felt essential when viewing the users behaviour because it's "drive-by" usage.
