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Company blog · trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog · on HN as amirnathooprogrammingweb

trigger.io is the company blog at trigger.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 81 times, most often “Trigger.io - mobile platform for web developers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

81mentions?
27HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 54 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers mostly mention trigger.io as a hybrid mobile app platform. Comments point to its blog for cross-platform case studies and its PhoneGap-free native bridge, and to its Catalyst debugging tool.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

amirnathoo · 2,331 karma · member since 2007

Co-founder at Outschool. Previously PM at Square and founder of Trigger.io.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Trigger.io - mobile platform for web developers
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-01-26
  2. /
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-12-18
  3. HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-02
  4. /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/01/26/how-forge-works-and-why-were-proud-of-it/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-24
  5. Working away: consider it for your startup
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-07
  6. Cross-browser add-ons are a reality with Trigger.io (Zemanta example)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-26
  7. Trigger.io V2.0
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I agreed that writing app in HTML5/CSS/JS is easy to mantain. But why not get access to those native features too? Hybrid apps seem to be very logical way to build apps now. Take a look at many emerging services like http://trigger.io and get the best of both world.

    Comment linking /

    on “Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5”
  2. Submitted Mobile shift: You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is as a story · 231 points

    HN discussion
  3. There's a few different solutions around. I believe one of them ( https://trigger.io/ ) is even YC funded.

    Comment linking /

    on “Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a deposition (1998) [video]”
  4. Submitted Why Trigger.io doesn’t use PhoneGap – 5x faster native bridge as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  5. AppHub co-founder here, we realize that this is something that would seem to be prohibited by Apple, but updating JavaScript code is explicitly permitted by the iOS Developer Agreement [1]. This same technology is used by Meteor [2], Trigger.io [3], and Adobe Hydration [4], and also used by Facebook and Palantir [5] in their apps. [1] https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/information/iOS_Pro... [2] http://info.me…

    Comment linking /

    on “AppHub – Update React Native Apps Without Re-Submitting to Apple”
  6. Submitted Build and test iPhone/iPad apps without a Mac as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  7. trigger.io claim it is possible for their apps on Android 4.4 [1] that uses Chromium as basis for the webview, but I didn't have the chance yet as I am still on 4.3. [1] http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

    Comment linking /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2013/11/06/new-feature-roundup-ios-7-and-android-4-4-support-new-accelerometer-and-apptentive-modules/

    on “Chrome DevTools for Mobile: Screencast and Emulation”
  8. Submitted How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  9. We totally agree that when things have a solid foundation it makes sense to build on top of them. The problem we saw with Phonegap was several design decisions we disagreed with (as we described briefly in the blog post). This left us with the option of putting up with it (and ending up with an inferior product), or writing our own bridge, and writing our own bridge made sense. Of course you are right in that writin…

    Comment linking /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/01/26/how-forge-works-and-why-were-proud-of-it/

    on “Why Trigger.io doesn’t use PhoneGap – 5x faster native bridge”
  10. Submitted Working away: consider it for your startup as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  11. You have to write your apps in the right way for mobile and we've blogged about ways to do that: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo... We've also done benchmarks of our native bridge vs phonegap showing it to be 5x faster on Android: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

    Comment linking /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/02/24/why-trigger-io-doesnt-use-phonegap-5x-faster-native-bridge/

    on “Build and test iPhone/iPad apps without a Mac”
  12. Submitted Announcing Trigger.io Reload - iterate fast on mobile, inspired by Clutch.io as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  13. We did something similar in Barcelona earlier this year: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo... Money well spent!

    Comment linking /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/06/06/working-away-consider-it-for-your-startup/

    on “Letting Employees Work Remotely Pays Off”
  14. Submitted How to build a location-based hybrid mobile app with reverse geocoding as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  15. There are a few good options for debugging. Trigger has the Catalyst debugging tool which brings a Webkit-style debugging interface to mobile development ( https://trigger.io/catalyst/ ). You can run apps in the simulator and on connected devices then remotely view the DOM and debug Javascript in the web interface. Trigger can also generate web apps ( http://current-docs.trigger.io/web/index.html ), so when not usin…

    Comment linking /catalyst/

    on “Using Parse and Trigger.io for cross-platform apps without pain in the back-end”
  16. Submitted Using Parse and Trigger.io for cross-platform apps without pain in the back-end as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  17. It's a reasonably common question and we think we have some quite good answers - you can see a summary on our homepage. Our customers tell us they choose us vs alternatives for: - the efficiency of our build / test cycle - the broader API out of the box including native UI components and integrations with 3rd party SDKs like Facebook, Flurry and Parse - the ability to push updates to the app without going through th…

    Comment linking /reload

    on “Announcing Trigger.io v2.0”
  18. Submitted Announcing Trigger.io v2.0 as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  19. We use a true hybrid approach for the mobile app, meaning in addition to using phonegap we also use some native UI elements; namely the top and bottom nav bars. It does add some overhead because you have to write that stuff in java/objective-c but it helps the app feel much closer to a native app than pure HTML5 does at this point. I would check out http://trigger.io if you're not interested in writing any native co…

    Comment linking /

    on “AngularJS powered mobile boilerplate app that also does offline out of the box”
  20. Submitted Trigger.io open-sources cross-platform browser add-on framework as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  21. Absolutely! You interact with our cloud build service via our command line tools - signup at https://trigger.io/forge to download that Or our UI Toolkit: https://trigger.io/forge/toolkit/ Devs seem to prefer those methods than uploading code into some kind of web form. If you want information about how our cloud build service works, here's an overview: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

    Comment linking /cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/01/26/how-forge-works-and-why-were-proud-of-it/

    on “Simplest way to build apps for Windows Phone”
  22. Submitted Easily sync data between your mobile and web apps using Firebase and Trigger.io as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  23. That's coming with our UI toolkit :) https://trigger.io/forge/toolkit/

    Comment linking /forge/toolkit/

    on “Simplest way to build apps for Windows Phone”
  24. Submitted Designing Docs for Developers as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  25. http://www.trigger.io

    Comment linking /

    on “Flappy Bird in HTML5”
  26. Submitted Simplest way to build apps for Windows Phone as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  27. The last example on: https://trigger.io/examples/ has a quote from a previous example. Both are from the CTO of Famium. Just a heads up.

    Comment linking /examples/

    on “Trigger.io one year on”
  28. Submitted How Trigger went international with Y Combinator’s help as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  29. What version of IE? Looks OK for me on IE9 (and IE7/8 mode)... Can you get to our main site https://trigger.io/ ?

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    on “How Trigger.io Forge works and why we’re proud of it”
  30. Submitted Trigger.io v1.4 available: Facebook SDK integration, QR scanning as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion

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