An app people open from a link, no store, no download
The friction that kills apps is the install. Orbit builds a fast, responsive app people open from a link, nothing to download, no store to pass. Add-to-home-screen and offline are landing next, derived automatically from your app.
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Wednesday, Jul 16
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The install wall
No one wants to download and install your app.
“No one wants to download and install your app, it's too much work.” Every step between wanting to try something and using it loses people: the store, the download, the permissions. And the classic install path, “Share, then Add to Home Screen, which practically nobody knows how to do,” was never the answer. The app people actually open is the one that's one tap away.
How it works
Open it from a link. Install when it's ready.
Orbit builds your app as a fast, responsive web app anyone can open from a link, on any screen. The installable, offline layer is derived from the app you already built, and it's on the way.
Opens from a link, on any screen
Share a URL and your app opens, no download, no store review, no wait. It's responsive from desktop down to a phone, so the same link works everywhere your users are.
Fast because the page arrives ready
Pages are server-rendered, so they load quickly and work on a slow connection, without the blank-then-fill delay of a heavy single-page bundle.
Installable and offline, auto-derived, coming
The last mile of a PWA, add-to-home-screen and offline, needs a web app manifest and a service worker. Orbit already knows your app's name, icon, and theme, so it can derive those for you. That's the next step, not something it does today.
Honest edge: Orbit apps are responsive web apps today, not yet installable PWAs. The install and offline layer is in progress.
Where it fits
One app, every screen.
The same app you build reaches the browser today and a native Android build when you need the store. One app, wherever your users open it.
Ship an app that's one tap from used
Build a fast, responsive app people open from a link, with installable and offline on the way.