So what's the next phase?  Someone can volunteer to build it?  Or get a cost estimate then pass around the hat?

I personally would use such an app only for checking / writing to network stream - I use the other features only from the desktop.  Even the existing PWA doesn't have access to everything (such as admin options).

@Scott M. Stolz

An open source Facebook alternative can success without doing shady stuff.

  I'm rooting for you, believe me (even if email is the communications app that everyone loves to hate)

Hubzilla needs a bit more than a fancy app in order to be " user-friendly" and succeed (though that's one thing that could help). And the "success" of large companies like facebook is partly owing to repugnant behaviour like betraying the needs of its users. We can't beat them at their own game. We can only try to emulate things that aren't harmful, like making the on-boarding process simple, the user experience as pleasant as possible, the discovery process good (in a forum post The sad state of the Hubzilla general Directory was mentioned). And also to give people an easy path to taking advantage to those areas that are unique to hubzilla, like cloud storage, wiki creation, long-form blogging, web sites, etc.

Indeed. Someone just created a mock permission request form for IOS

I use the PWA quite successfully.  Does it cost a lot, or is it difficult, to produce an electron app? - I have no idea.  If I remember rightly (which is questionable after so many years ), part of the success of the FB is that it is able to check your address book to find other contacts that are on FB, and, in the case of Hubzilla this would be zero.

@Bill Statler ask them (?)