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Building Flipkart Lite: A Progressive Web App

Aditya Punjani · Medium (Progressive Web Apps) Free Advanced India

A first hand engineering account of why Flipkart, an app first Indian company, rebuilt the mobile web to reach users on weak networks and low end phones. It is candid about the constraints your users live with and the tradeoffs the team made. Read it when you want the practitioner view, not the case study gloss.

  • An app first Indian company chose to reinvest in the web
  • Low end phones and weak networks drove the decision
  • Real tradeoffs from a team serving your exact users
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It answers 2 questions

  1. How do I design for users in India who are on cheap Android phones and slow, patchy internet?
  2. Should my MVP be a mobile app or a web app? My users are mostly on phones in smaller Indian cities.

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