Opener

Open web links in your apps instead

4 followers

Open web links in your apps instead

4 followers

Opener is an app that allows you to open links from the web in apps instead! Copy a link and launch Opener to see the apps that it can be opened in, or use Opener's action extension right from other apps! Opener currently supports over 260 apps with more being added all the time.

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Tim Johnsen

Retro

Maker

@rrhoover y'all should add a URL scheme to Product Hunt, would love to integrate Opener with it :)

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10yr ago

Rick Sheahan

@rrhoover @timonus agreed ;)

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7yr ago

Tim Johnsen

Retro

Maker

Preview of future plans - Introduce support for custom domains for services like Tumblr and Medium - Open source the rule set powering Opener and allow anybody to contribute to it - Add content previews for URLs

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10yr ago

Ouriel Ohayon

Zengo wallet

cool usage of deep links. but i don t think it can gain any significant traction at 0.99$

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10yr ago

Tim Johnsen

Retro

Maker

@ourielohayon I feel you, and the price is an even steeper $1.99. I normally go free for my apps, wanted to try the price for a few reasons: 1. I'll need to add support for other apps that cost money, and in order to test I need to buy those apps. The money from Opener will go into purchasing other apps I'll add support for. 2. It's counterintuitive, but free apps users are more fickle than people who pay for them. Sure I could get a ton of users if the app was free, but I really want users who can make good, long lasting use of it. People who are willing to pay for what it does ;)

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10yr ago

Chris Messina

Ambassador

@ourielohayon I'd have to agree. I'm seeing $1.99 now. While I generally like the idea of supporting indie devs, given this app requires developer participation, it'll really only take off if there are enough users demanding support for this scheme, and without many apps supporting it, most people probably won't pony up.

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10yr ago

Tim Johnsen

Retro

Maker

@chrismessina 157 downloaded it yesterday, and I'll always have at least one user, myself :) that's good enough for me

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10yr ago

Chris Messina

Ambassador

@timonus I support your efforts, and am glad to see people support you! Do I have it right though that other apps need to support your protocol in order for their apps to work with Opener?

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10yr ago

Tim Johnsen

Retro

Maker

@chrismessina you're right. The hosting app has to support the iOS share sheet (UIActivityViewController), and the targeted app has to have a URL scheme of some sort. Fortunately, thanks to Twitter Cards a huge number of apps support URL schemes since that's how those deep links work.

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10yr ago

Opener

Open web links in your apps instead

Open web links in your apps instead

Opener

Open web links in your apps instead

Open web links in your apps instead

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