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Good stuff but not “app” enough.
Will I use this app? No. Also not other so called “PWA” (in my humble opinion are just another “AMP” thing), that mess up websites and yet doesn’t bring much benefits. I have disabled “AMP” in all my websites after running them for months – Conclusion: More harm than good.
Here is a killer improvement idea – Make it remote-control friendly.
1. NAVIGATION PROBLEM
Navigation is the biggest problem for website on TV, whereby remote-controller offers the best user experience. The is no problem with most of the apps whereby one can jump from one menu to another (using keys like <, >, etc).
This is not the case with websites eg. WordPress/Genesis, you’d need an airmouse, and that’s still clumsy.
I have been looking for way to make website TV friendly for years. None so far.
It will be a revolutionary breakthrough if you can make remote controller’s navigation buttons (basically the arrows “>, <, etc) move from one to another says, menu item #1 to #2 … then jump to “next page” etc.
Alternately, you may extract the menu/navigation items and make buttons out of them for user to navigate.
I’d recommend you start off with Genesis – solid framework with huge user base.
TV viewers are dying to access the web, which is an absolute pain due to navigation problems.
Other than that,
2. NO HTTPS – I have many websites serving good contents which I do not wish to pay the extra cost for SSL. Suggest you make SSL a non requirement.
3. Use native web display, I noticed embed image/gifs/video do not display. Even external featured image by Nelio also do not come out.
That said, I think you may want to consider an all purpose PWA with the following features: –
1. Make it TV friendly
2. Customization Splash
3. No need https
4. Show native display (some have plugins like slider/table etc). None of this will come out if you choose your way of display content.