# Going fully web

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/going-fully-web/4860>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/going-fully-web/4860 "2021-11-15T15:51:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![rosano](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rosano/32/2106_2.png) [@rosano](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rosano)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/going-fully-web/4860/1 "2021-11-15T15:51:04Z")

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I recently wrote about my decision to move completely to the web as an app development platform and some of the tradeoffs involved. [My iOS apps](https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/rcreativ/id356609408) are currently free and will disappear from the App Store in a few months.

> **[\#021: going fully web • BASU • emotional vocabulary](https://utopia.rosano.ca/021-going-fully-web-basu-emotional-vocabulary/)**
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> Welcome to the twenty-first edition of Ephemerata, a weekly-ish digest of ideas, learnings, links, and sounds.
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> I’m doing this to stimulate discussion around what I find interesting, and also to share things before they disappear into the void of my...

> Despite the web’s challenges, there’s much that excites me about its future and and some of these characteristics are intrinsic to the platform:
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> - The concept of [instant games](https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-instant-flash-to-the-past/) promotes highly shareable apps via a simple link that require no install process: show up and start.
> - Having multiple payment providers, potentially with the addition of cryptocurrencies means if you wanted to also just invent your own value system, maybe some kind of post-money coupon thing, it’s possible to integrate with existing systems…
> - User-controlled personal data stores are [already being used](https://0data.app/) on the web and will eventually make their way to native apps.
> - Edge apps that work completely in the browser are easy to mirror or fork, and virtually free to distribute: imagine having your site/app available everywhere via [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/)
> - The culture of perpetual improvement, with less focus on versioning, is normal: people do not need to ‘install updates’ for each app they use on every change.
> - It’s just more fun and with a lower barrier to entry, which results in more diverse and dynamic communities who form part of a larger public commons: more sparks, more life, more weird.