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Show HN: How bloated is your favorite app?

39 pointsby tonyxover 8 years ago

9 comments

MildlySeriousover 8 years ago
What are these apps that have 50+ MB in code built with? Or what counts as code in that regard?<p>Snapchat for example is 95MB, 77MB code, and on my phone (Android, so not directly linked, but probably similar) the most unresponsive, crashy and painful-to-use app right along with Skype.
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wodenokotoover 8 years ago
It&#x27;s a pretty cool break down you do, but you should consider not including hearthstone in your demo, as most of its image, video and audio assets are placed in the &quot;other&quot; category. So it is a bad example of how your service can help me understand my app, since your demo doesn&#x27;t help me understand this game.
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bitmapbrotherover 8 years ago
Facebook Messenger is 130MB. That&#x27;s the very definition of &quot;kitchen sink&quot;.
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CharlesWover 8 years ago
This seems like a very &quot;woo woo&quot; theory, because few users know how big their apps are, or what a &quot;good&quot; size or a &quot;bad&quot; size for a particular app is.<p>So, let&#x27;s assume Segment is right and there&#x27;s a causal relationship between app size and downloads. What am I missing?
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sotojuanover 8 years ago
Would like to see this for web apps.
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laurentdcover 8 years ago
I&#x27;d like to see that for desktop apps too. Particularly browsers and productivity ones.
mrmondoover 8 years ago
Oh my gosh - this so, SO much. I think there&#x27;s a lot of &#x27;designers&#x27; thinking they&#x27;re &#x27;developers&#x27;, I&#x27;ve seen that first hand and that&#x27;s how you get rubbish like Drupal.
jlaroccoover 8 years ago
This is the second or third time in about a month that a site posted to HN has been blocked by my ad blocker.<p>According to Wikipedia, segment.com&#x27;s sole purpose is to aggregate data for marketing and advertising. Not a company I want to give page views to.
DigitalCannonover 8 years ago
Is there something I&#x27;m missing here? Why wouldn&#x27;t a larger app take longer to install?
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