Comment by intrasight

5 days ago

From what I hear, most users disable notifications.

You can do like Airbnb and send text messages.

You can do Bluetooth in JavaScript through the Web Bluetooth API.

A little caveat of Web Bluetooth API is that it's like WebUSB and mostly available on Chrome. I don't think Chrome for iOS is using blink yet so you'll probably not have access to this API on iOS.

> From what I hear, most users disable notifications.

Where’d you hear that? Surely most users don’t change defaults.

  • There isn’t a default on iOS, you’re prompted for each new app when it requests notification permissions. People have found that users hit no a lot more when the app prompts with no explanation than when it clearly explains what benefit it has to the user.

  • Then the flood of notifications gets ignored, with practically the same result.